Hello, Our dad was friends with a couple of veterans from way back. When he saw them at local family gatherings at a cool park in San Pedro, called Peck Park, he related what he liked to us. He told us of a story about growing up as kids in San Pedro, swimming in the big channel that separates San Pedro from Terminal Island, having gone to elementary school on Terminal Island when people actually live and worked there. But, the one thing he liked was cold weather and although it was So Cal along the coastal area, it did get cold at times. He always liked the look of the fighter pilots and their jackets. His friends had those jackets, but he never bought one for himself. Then one day, he surprised us at a birthday party for my brother. He had found the so called “bomber jackets” at a kids store in Los Angeles and although it was my brother’s birthday, he did not let that go unnoticed a week later. He surprised me with the same jacket but smaller for me. Now, both of us were almost twins, although my brother was taller. It was my mom’s insistence to get me the same jacket as I was walking around with my brother’s jacket on, while he was away at school. ha! Jnaki So, I remember when our dad was in one of his photo moods and had us put on our bomber jackets and pose on the Craftsman House porch. It was before he took the whole family on a picnic about 15 miles away on a park on a cliff in the Palos Verdes Peninsula coast line, around the curving coast from San Pedro. 2335 Webster Avenue, now the address of one of the vast elementary school complex built in the local school district. It was noted as the last elementary school built in the aging school district. Our cool old house is no more… This photo is probably where the administration office of the school is located. NOTE: After many years as the newest and latest school in the whole school district, it is now being phased out due to low enrollment and will become a part of the school district administration buildings and maintenance yard. The Terminal Island Freeway is still as busy as ever, just step beyond the far Western perimeter fencing. The old, Craftsman house with it cool attributes, was located at the far reaches of the City of Long Beach border edge. About a block from the exit outlet of the Lion's Dragstrip compound starting in 1955. YRMV
[QUOTE="twenty8, post: 15467268, member: 364605" The winner, John Crouch, celebrates in Aussie style.[/QUOTE] Looks like NHRA’s Greg Anderson !
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