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FOREWORD Jim Trayler’s writings have captured and preserved countless memories from the era before Baby Boomers became active in documenting nostalgia. While many history writers, myself included, have focused almost entirely on the days after World War II, it is both enlightening and enjoyable to read about earlier times, too. The text also includes topics such as car clubs and local housing projects built to house the influx of military and war support workers. Childhood recreational activities from another era are told with both warmth and detail. The author recalls newspaper routes that still employed pre-teens, as well as later adventures that included various hazing rituals at City College of San Francisco. These recollections take place against familiar backdrops of Ocean Beach, Brotherhood Way, Mount Davidson, and other San Francisco locations from 1941, and into the first decade after the war. Nostalgic photos highlight the work.

About the Author:

Jim Trayler, born in Eureka, California, spent his youth in San Francisco, then Southern California, and after marriage, lived in Oregon and Texas for several years. He, a veteran of the US Navy, retired from his sales career, and his wife, Carol, now make their home in Georgia.

Book Review:

Seeing a morning fogbank rolling in from the ocean, or hearing the deep throaty sound of foghorns on the Golden Gate Bridge, remain fresh in my memory. I can recall the Cliff House, the unique clang, clang, clang of a cable car’s bell descending Hyde Street with its view of Alcatraz, the smell of Dungeness crabs cooking in pots along the sidewalks at Fisherman’s Wharf and the occasional moderate earthquake. Who among us that grew up there remembers the unique-tastes of San Francisco sourdough bread, or the occasional Pronto-Pup near Sutro Baths? These remembrances are just a few of the innumerable experiences during my adolescent years in post-WWII San Francisco. The city by the bay, with its diverse neighborhoods — with its many unique landmarks; was an extraordinary place for a teenage boy to grow up. Release of the movie American Graffiti in 1973 revived reminiscences of this author’s earl

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Contact the author at jim.trayler@att.ne,t or by mail at 814 Brookside Ct. Woodstock GA 30188