I started to work in 29 palms in 1947 washed Windows on cars pumped gas by hand in Chevron Station Gas .30cent gal my dads station, 600 hundred people lived there no Marine base only lizards , snakes and turtles I cleaned shop drained oil from empty cans in bottles to sell my money.
filled pop machine water type, 5cent pop each. filled water bags each morning be fore school . I hated when the circus came to town they had Chevron credit card and I had to help pump gas up by hand to glass tank and let fill tank. One swimming pool , move show and one bowling Ailey,had to have old hose in bike tires to ride bike puncture vines. killed bike tires. the only
good thing there was Pioneer Days. I don't even drive through there on my way home To Riverside from River.

moved to Riverside in 1949 thank god. AND GOD BLESS YOU MARINES