Dennis Schulte:  

dennyschulte sbcglobal.net I was born just before the war ended. The second world war that is. The summer of 1945, July 25th. That was my grandfather¿s birthday also. Different year of course. But I don¿t remember any of that or of anything else that happened for the first 24 months of my life in San Francisco. I guess the first thing I remember is bubble gum and chicken heads. Funny how most things at that age slip away but some things stick. Mom and Dad had moved to Sacramento from San Francisco to settle down and start a new life with kids. Mom had some cousins in Sacramento and with their help found a place to live. It was a small two room cabin with a 2 foot by 3 foot mirror on one wall as I remember. I recall this because it was the first time mom tried to teach me how to blow a bubble with gum. It was a huge bubble! So big that when it popped the gum covered her face and stuck to her hair. I can remember her standing in front of that mirror picking gum out of her dark brown hair. The cabin was down the street from Cousin Dorothy¿s house on Wallace Avenue and next door to a place that had a big chicken pen in the back yard. Th...Expand for more