Tag: San Diego
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Tales of Sweet Melissa
My wife and I have always named our cars. My first car, a white 60 Chevy BelAir—one of those with tail fins—was named Whiskey, and her first car, a giant burgundy Olds 88 was named Gypsy. We were both poor in those days, and when our old cars died one after the other, my father…
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Arriving in California
California is the place of constant reinvention. Starting as the sleepy remote adjunct to the nation of Mexico only to be totally transformed into an almost instant American state by the 49ers of The Gold Rush. Then the Jewish American Dreamers who fled the East Coast and Edison’s stranglehold on the film business to found…
Musings of a Restless Mind 