Los Angeles

Mary, Connie, Aldine, Joyce 1943
Mary, Connie, Aldine, Joyce 1943

The next Spring, 1942, we again moved, to 41st Street to a nice big house that was close to the coliseum. There we paid $35 month. Then the three youngest children had to change schools again, but they all found new friends and we all liked that place. We could walk to the coliseum and look around, enjoy the rose gardens. Harry and Kathryn were still with us. When there were games at the coliseum everyone on the streets that had room for to park cars did so. Well Mary and Kathryn parked cars on our lawn for $1.00 a car and had a lot of fun doing it. Jim, then 6 years old got a rash on his body so he and I went once a week to the White Memorial Hospital for his tests. We would always start in time to stop at a small eating house and have a bowl of soup and ice cream before going to the hospital. One day I said to Jim – let’s get on the street car and go to the end of the line. We ended up in Lincoln Park. Then one day Dorothy and me went down town to the General Market. We shopped around awhile, then we went to get meat and a lady said do you know your purse is open. I looked and my money was all gone. I said we don’t have even enough money to get home. She then gave us street car fare to get home. That was some experience. Well, we had no meat for supper that day. I said to George, see we have no meat, then started to cry. When I told him what happened he said forget it, we have plenty without meat – it’s just good you two got home safe. Well there were plenty of little incidents like that happened. While we lived there Harry and Kathryn went to housekeeping across the street in a furnished apartment. While there, their first baby was born, Connie. Kathryn’s mother came to be with Kathryn. Her Dad flew out, stayed a week and flew back, but her Mother stayed till Connie was five weeks old. Then they all, including Paul, went back to Woodbury. Harry was going to our farm which we had rented since we left.