Growing Up in Fairfield, California
Growing Up in Fairfield, California

Author: Tony Wade

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1467149101

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Life in Fairfield in the decades after World War II was an unparalleled experience. From cruising down Texas Street on weekends to catching a carnival in the Wonder World parking lot, fond memories of long-lost times haven't been forgotten. People flocked to vintage eateries like Joe's Buffet and Smorga Bob's and played on the rocket ship slide at Allan Witt Park. Roller rinks like the M&M Skateway hosted not only skaters but also dances featuring Fats Domino and Roy Orbison. Commuters hopped aboard the FART bus to save on gas, and frequenting Dave's Giant Hamburgers was a rite of passage. Longtime Daily Republic columnist and accidental historian Tony Wade takes a deep dive into the Fairfield of yesteryear.

A California Childhood
A California Childhood

Author: James Franco

Publisher: Insight Editions

Published: 2014-08-12

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781608873937

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The trade paperback reprint of James Franco’s thoughtful reflection on childhood through a series of personal snapshots, sketches, paintings, poems, and short stories. An actor treads the line between reality and fiction every time he plays a part, and for James Franco, that exploration isn’t limited to the screen—he’s also a visual artist with several exhibitions under his belt as well as the author of the widely praised story collection Palo Alto. In A California Childhood he plays with the concept of memoir through personal snapshots, sketches, paintings, poems, and stories. “I was born in 1978 at Stanford Hospital and spent my first eighteen years in a single house at the end of a cul-de-sac in Palo Alto,” Franco writes in his introduction. Steve Jobs’s daughter and the grandson of one of the Hewlett-Packard founders may have both been in his graduating class, but just across the freeway from his home turf lay East Palo Alto, which in 1992 had the highest murder rate per capita in the country. For Franco, the terrain of his upbringing is fraught with the complication of a city divided. But within that diversity, universal aspects of adolescence rise to the surface, and those are the subjects at the heart of Franco’s work. Ultimately this is a portrait of a childhood brightened by California sunshine, but with trouble waiting in the shadows. At turns funny, dark, and emotional, the journey of this book delivers an undeniable immediacy. And at the end, the reader is left wondering just where the boundary lies between Franco’s art and his true life.

Growing Up in California
Growing Up in California

Author: Michael B. Barker

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2001-09

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0595195679

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Seldom has a biography produced such a ribald cast of characters, from saints to scoundrels, from war heros to draft dodgers, from movie stars to could-have-beens. Growing up in a show business family during World War II, the author relishes in prose unique glimpses of the lives and times of those who entertained and enlightened the greatest generation.

Indigenous
Indigenous

Author: Cris Mazza

Publisher: City Lights Books

Published: 2003-05

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780872864221

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Engaging memoir about growing up in rural Southern California and identifying as a "Californian" for life.

Growing Up Belvedere-Tiburon
Growing Up Belvedere-Tiburon

Author: Paige Peterson

Publisher:

Published: 2020-12

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780578799971

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

You can leave Belvedere and Tiburon, but Belvedere-Tiburon never leaves you. Paige Peterson discovered that when she moved to New York City. For many years now, she has visited Belvedere, where she stays with her mother in the house her grandfather built on the Belvedere Lagoon.Paige and her sister packed sandwiches in paper bags and rode off on their bikes to explore the Tiburon Peninsula. Swimming, sailing, hiking, clamming, daredevil bike riding-their day was a long, unsupervised adventure. There was no interaction with parents until the Tiburon Fire Department blew the 4:30 whistle, signaling that it was time to head home. Her family's photographs confirm the story of fit, sun-kissed kids enjoying a charmed, idyllic childhood.Dave Gotz, the Archivist for the Belvedere-Tiburon Landmarks Society, deepens that personal story with archival photographs. His captions reveal his extensive knowledge of Tiburon Peninsula history: Mexican Ranchos, Portuguese dairymen, the many changes on Beach Road, Main Street, the Lagoon and the Cove, the importance of the railroad.Along the way, Paige and Dave showcase some of the area's remarkable characters. Tiburon's "Goat Lady," who so loved nature that she donated her land for open space. Blackie the horse. The artists who lived on West Shore and created a bohemian colony. And the residents of Belvedere and Tiburon who, again and again, rallied to protect open land and the special charm of their towns.Taken together, Paige's cinematic stories and Paige and Dave's curated images and capsule histories deliver an authoritative portrait of a historically diverse community.

Cruising State
Cruising State

Author: Christopher Buckley

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

eighteen essays chronicling the rapid cultural and physical changes in California for the baby boom generation

Growing Up Nisei
Growing Up Nisei

Author: David K. Yoo

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 1999-12-03

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780252068225

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The place occupied by Japanese Americans within the annals of United States history often begins and ends with their cameo appearance as victims of incarceration after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. In this provocative work, David K. Yoo broadens the scope of Japanese American history to examine how the second generation—the Nisei—shaped its identity and negotiated its place within American society. Tracing the emergence of a dynamic Nisei subculture, Yoo shows how the foundations laid during the 1920s and 1930s helped many Nisei adjust to the upheaval of the concentration camps. Schools, racial-ethnic churches, and the immigrant press served not merely as waystations to assimilation but as tools by which Nisei affirmed their identity in connection with both Japanese and American culture. The Nisei who came of age during World War II formed identities while negotiating complexities of race, gender, class, generation, economics, politics, and international relations. A thoughtful consideration of the gray area between accommodation and resistance, Growing Up Nisei reveals the struggles and humanity of a forgotten generation of Japanese Americans.

Growing Up with California: 1846~1888
Growing Up with California: 1846~1888

Author: Jacob Wright Harlan

Publisher: BIG BYTE BOOKS

Published:

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Before he had turned twenty years old, Jake Harlan had met the Donners before their disastrous journey, served under John C. Fremont (the Pathfinder) in California, owned a livery stable in San Francisco, opened a store to sell equipment to miners for the '49 Gold Rush, hit paydirt in the gold fields, and become a father. Before he turned twenty! That was just the beginning of Jake Harlan's life. Though he apologizes for offering this book as a "non-lettered man," we should be grateful that he wrote it. His story is the story of the early wild west and of California. It is exciting, well-written, colloquial, sad, and funny. On a return trip to California from the east, he saw Abraham Lincoln speak in the Illinois senate before Lincoln was known to the nation. On finding his mate for life, he writes: "Boy-like, I had fallen dead in love with one or both of those two Fowler girls. For a good while I didn't exactly know what was the matter with me. Just as General Grant says in his book, that when he was in the same fix, he by and by found out what was the matter with him, when he fell in love; so by and by I found out what was the matter with me, and I simplified my case by centering my affection upon one of them." For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.

Farmworker's Daughter
Farmworker's Daughter

Author: Rose Castillo Guilbault

Publisher: Heyday

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 9781597140348

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A coming-of-age memoir told through the often unheard voice of a Mexican immigrant girl. Farmworker's Daughter presents an intimate, inspiring view of the immigrant experience from a distinctly female and bicultural perspective.