George Worthy:  

Life How in the world do you condense 50 years into a few words. I joined the Army to get out of Wasco and now find myself happily ensconced in a small town over in the Salinas valley. It's amazing how many of my school mates still live in California. I stayed in the Army until a little after Vietnam where I served three tours. Tough place to make a living. I am now retired from the service and feel anyone looking for a good foundation for life should consider the military. Almost everything i have is due to my time in the service. I wasn't doing too well with self discipline when i was in high school but I seemed to thrive in the Army. I was an enlisted man for six years and then went to Officers candidate School and became an officer and gentleman. One of the great things in my life was for my folks to see me as an officer. After i got out i joined the sheriff's department here in Monterey County. After driving around for a few years and gaining about 50 pounds I knew that was not the life for me. I bought a small gun shop and became a gunsmith. My store burned down and even though I relocated I never recovered financially. It affected my marriage to a young lady I had met in Georgia. After fathering a young girl we divorced. My daughter is now 31 and chose to live with me after she gained her majority. She lives now in Salinas and has given me two wonderful grandchildren. I'm not as good a grandparent as i would like because i met and married a much younger lady and we had two boys together. they are now 13 and 11. They are the joy of my life and now that i am almost retired I spend all my time making sure they become good men. Their names are Austin and Reed. they both love and race motorcycles and sports of any kind. I race in the super senior class at the Ricky Graham Memorial race held in King City, CA. once a year. I think they are proud of me for still having enough nerve to get out there and race. I don't try as hard to win as I once did but I still enjoy riding around the track and sliding once in a while. I still broker produce, write columns for the local paper and occasionally for WASCOTIMES.COM. I sell produce related packing supplies and photograph weddings when I find some one who can't afford an big time photographer. More later....As I started to write more about my life I was going over the names of the folks on this site. Girls and guys that I had known. It occurred to me that I was once in love with a lot of the girls posted herein. Of course the fact that high school was such a stressful time for me is no excuse but for some reason i just never got around to telling those ladies how much they meant to me when i was younger. I guess the most treasured girl, the one I really wanted to like me was carol berensen. Well, that didn't work out for many reasons. The love of my life was Sue whitworth. her mom didn't care for me too much but we were still in love. In later years her mother and mine became very close friends and of course my mom kept her informed of my success'. I think she left out the low points. I see so many names that bring back so many memories. The dances after the football games, cruising around 7th Street, Hoyt's, Chuck's dairy delite. there were so many cool places to cruise and be seen when you didn't have much money and just wanted o be a teen. i think the movie, American graffiti got it as close as they could in a movie. if you haven't seen it lately you should check it out of the rental store. My brother Cedric still lives in Wasco and keeps me up on what has been happening. It seems that nothing much changes. Just keeps getting bigger. Who hasn't parked out by one of the reservoirs to spoon with their girl? Who hasn't hurt someone back in those days that they didn't wish they could apologize to now? I'm getting older but I'm fighting ll the way. God will get me but not until after a struggle. Guess if you are reading this you remember the older simpler times. God Bless you and yours. WW My wife read my post and asked me to point out that not only do i live in a small town I am the mayor. How about that for a poor boy that stayed on the...Expand for more