Bruce Boyd:  

From High School I continued to work cooking at Pine Cone Inn, then The Branding Iron, then The Wine Cellar all while playing in the local band "Piranha" til I was booted for having too much rock and roll fun. Went to my 5 year re-union and made a fool of myself and hadn't been back since. I then went to work in Modesto for the family at Nice Things for several years. Got married to 1st wife for a year in 1989 but couldn't be both a husband and father to her. About 1997 I worked my own "Nice Things" store in Stockton. I married a second time in 1998 and that lasted two years as did our Stockton store. I couldn't be a husband, and father (had a miscarriage), and a lover all at the same time. Wife left for best friends cousin who was Italian like her. Didn't like the old Pollock anymore. "And she used to call me predjudice because I made jokes about everyone. Even us Poles." I went back to our store in Modesto and after a year had to close it after having to move from the mall because of exceedingly high rent. I came back to Merced and ran the Merced "Nice Things". In 1999 I had my heart attack and by December of 2000 we had closed the Merced "Nice Things" due to the end of our lease and raised rents as the U.C. Merced was coming to town. Again in 2001 I changed my profession and then went to work driving Merced County buses and then on to school buses. I did that for a year and decided to move to Venice, Florida where both my sister Cyndi, and brother Jeff had moved years earlier. My parents had also decided to move there so I just helped them move out to there desired home to retire in. In 2002 I was working for Sarasota County Schools...Expand for more