MY LIFE STORY CONTINUED

THE REASON I USE LARGE PRINT IS CUZ I NEED IT TO SEE AND I LIKE PURPLE AND VIOLET AND WHITE IS WHY I USE THIS COLOR.
OKAY I LEFT YOU AT MY WASHINGTON STREET APARTMENT LAST TIME.
I LIVED ALONE FOR QUITE AWHILE THEN MY BEST FRIEND AT THE PHONE COMPANY NAMED JILL ASKED TO MOVE IN WITH ME SHE WAS SICK OF HER MOM BOSSING HER AROUND SO I SAID OK.
OUR RENT WENT UP BY 2.00 TO COVER HER ELECTRICITY AND UTILITY USE HAHHA. NOW WE PAID 46.75 A MONTH.
IT WAS A SMALL APARTMENT AND WHEN JILL MOVED IN IT WASNT TOO BAD SHE BEGAN TO DECORATE SOMETHING I NEVER HAD DONE. SHE GOT A PLANT HUNG A PICTURE AND DID A FEW OTHER HOMEY THINGS.
I WONDERED WHY I HAD NEVER THOUGHT OF IT. PERHAPS BECAUSE WHEN YOU MOVE YOU HAVE A BUNCH OF STUFF TO MOVE.
I CANNOT FOR THE LIFE OF ME REMEMBER WHO HELPED ME MOVE MY STUFF THERE.
I HAD NO CAR I RODE THE CITY BUS EVERYWHERE AND DENVER HAD A WONDERFUL BUS SERVICE ALL OVER THE PLACE.
JILL HAD A CAR IT WAS A PINK FORD CONVERTIBLE 1955. SHE HAD FINANCED IT THRU THE CREDIT UNION. SHE WAS SO SICK OF THE PAYMENTS SHE ENDED UP SELLING IT FOR THE BALANCE ON THE LOAN .
BUT WE HAD A LOT OF FUN BEFORE SHE SOLD IT. WE WENT TO VAIL COLORADO AND TO BOULDER WHERE THE COLLEGE BOYS WERE AND WENT TO TULAGI A BAR SORTA PLACE WHERE COLLEGE KIDS HUNG OUT. WE HAD A LOT OF FUN. IN COLORADO 18 YEAR OLDS CAN BUY 3.2 BEER ITS NASTY I NEVER HAVE LIKED BEER.
AND WE WENT TO SHAKEY'S PIZZA PARLOR THE BEST PIZZA THEN AND WHEN I MOVED TO SACRAMENTO IN 1956 WE DISCOVERED THE ORIGINAL SHAKEY'S PIZZA THERE STRANGE HUH?
THAT WAS MY FIRST PIZZA , BEFORE THAT I ONLY ATE NEW MEXICAN AND AMERICAN AND JEWISH FOOD . THERE WAS A JEWISH DELI IN DENVER THAT WAS REALLY GREAT .

IN SANTA FE WHERE I GREW UP THERE WERE A LOT OF JEWISH PEOPLE MY MOM TOLD ME MY DAD WAS JEWISH AND THATS WHY SHE DIDNT PUT HIS NAME ON MY BIRTH CERTIFICATE , THERE WAS SO MUCH PREJUDICE AGAINST JEWISH PEOPLE IN THOSE DAYS .

WELL JILL AND I WERE BOTH CATHOLIC SO WE WNET TO MASS AND CONFESSION AND ALL THAT IT INVOLVED WHEN WE WERE TOGETHER. AFTER AWHILE A SMALL APT CAME OPEN IN OUR LADIES PLACE AND WE GOT OUR TWO GERMAN PALS FROM WORK TO MOVE IN THEIR NAMES WERE SHIRLEY SCHMALTZ AND ROSIE SCHULTZ THEY WERE FROM NORTH DAKOTA AND THEY HAD A KIND A SCANDANAVIAN ACCENT WHEN THEY SPOKE.
NOW OUR APARTMENT HOME WAS COMPLETE WE HAD THOSE TWO, A SINGLE OLDER GIRL ,AND A MOTHER AND DAUGHTER NAMED EGAN MOM WAS THE ONE WHO MANAGED THE APT. THE GIRLS NAME WAS SANDY AND SHE WAS A MESS . SHE WAS RELATED TO THE GOVERNOR OF NEW MEXICO AT THE TIME A NIECE.
I WENT TO SCHOOL WITH THE GOVERNORS GRANDDAUGHTER IN SANTA FE.
EVERYONE WENT EITHER TO CATHOLIC SCHOOL OR PUBLIC SCHOOL I WENT TO BOTH AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER AFTER GRADE 3 I WENT TOTALLY PUBLIC. WE HAD GREAT TEACHERS MOSTLY JEWISH ONES AND THEY WERE VERY VERY GOOD TEACHERS WE LEARNED EVERYTHING, INCLUDING LATIN IN SCHOOL. SUCH A HIGH STANDARD SCHOOL WE HAD. TOTALLY UNLIKE OUR CURRENT ONES. EVERYOEN KNEW ABOUT ANCIENT HISTORY AND CURRENT HISTORY AND WE LEARNED STATE HISTORY, SO WE WERE WELL VERSED IN ALL SUBJECTS. TODAY PEOPLE ONLY GET THE SCHOOLING WE HAD IN COLLEGE.
WE HAD ANTHROPOLOGY AND WE LEARNED OUR BEGINNINGS ABOUT THE NATIVE AMERICANS WITH GREAT REPSECT. WE VISITED ALL THE CAVE DWELLINGS AND PUEBLOS AND REALLY GOT INTO IT A LOT.
WE LEARNED THAT OUR FOREFATHERS WERE FROM SPAIN AND MANY MARRIED THE LOCAL INDIAN LADIES SO WE MANY HAD MIXED BLOOD AND WE FELT VERY IDENTIFIED TO SPAIN AND ALL THINGS FROM THERE. WE SPOKE SPANISH AND ENGLISH WITH NO ACCENTS. ALMOST EVERYONE IN NEW MEXICO WAS BILINGUAL FROM BIRTH.
OK THAT ENOUGH OF MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY FOR TODAY.

HUGS TO ALL MOM GRAMA