Table of Contents

Introduction

Part One        1944 to 1965

  Chapter  101      Long Beach, Long Ago 1944

  Chapter  102      Homemade Ice Cream 1947

  Chapter  103      Saturday Matinee 1948

  Chapter  104      Tehachapi Earthquake 1952

  Chapter  105      Ducking the Nukes 1957

  Chapter  106      Big Oil and Smudge Pots 1958

  Chapter  107      Kindergarten Sandbox 1959

  Chapter  108      The Battle of Halloween 1959

  Chapter  109      Surf and Socko 1960

  Chapter  110     Romero Canyon Wildfire 1961

  Chapter  111     Black Velvet 1962

  Chapter  112     War and Peace 1962

  Chapter  113     Shakedown at K93 1962

  Chapter  114     Military Industrial Complex 1962

  Chapter  115     The Dragon Lady's BBQ 1963

  Chapter  116     Dallas and the Buddha 1963

  Chapter  117     Windy Gap Rollover 1964

Part Two        1966 to 1972

Part Three      1973 to 1996

  Chapter  301       Market Street Mystery 1972

  Chapter  302       Captivating Mazatlan 1973

  Chapter  303       Ocean Beach 1974

  Chapter  304       A Big Fish Story 1975

  Chapter  305       Desperado 1976-77

  Chapter  306       Sleeping Grass 1977

  Chapter  307       The Rocky Road to Rockridge 1978

  Chapter  308       Opihikao Pentagon 1979-81

  Chapter  309       Lava Flows and Haircuts 1983

  Chapter  310       The Author and the Hitchhiker 1984

  Chapter  311       The Bishop's Birthday 1985

  Chapter  312       Catching Skateboards 1986-88

  Chapter  313       Slug Gone Bad 1989

  Chapter  314       Sundowners 1991

  Chapter  315       Rockridge and Katy 1991-92

  Chapter  316       Hurricane Andrew 1992

  Chapter  317       Grizzly Peak 1993

  Chapter  318       Northridge Earthquake 1994

  Chapter  319       Coarsegold 1994

  Chapter  320       Irvine Flood 1995

  Chapter  321       Frozen Rivers 1996

  Chapter  322       Toppenish Cactuses 1996

Part Four      1996 to 2000

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