I WILL MAKE YOU TALK! Before I take a brief respite to tend to other projects, I will leave you with this. By now, you know that I just love history. We are all historians in our own right. Who knows more about yourself and your own family history than youself?! My problem is that I love other peoples histories! My wife loves crossword puzzles, but I find them boring. Instead, I love real life puzzles. So when a mystery lands in my lap, I have to solve it, otherwise, I get no peace. And please, dont ask me to find people or solve mysteries for you, my plate is full for the next decade! Back in 1986, my wife and I went to ACRES OF BOOKS in Long Beach. It was a humongous warehouse crammed with books! Its no longer there. My wife, who attended Long Beach Poly High School, found a 1923 yearbook from her school and bought it for $2.00. Well, I fell in love with her yearbook. I told my wife: Im going to pick the prettiest girl in the Class of 1923 and find her, if she is still alive! And my wife said, OK, if it keeps you out of mischief. Incidentally, my dad was born in 1922. This was one very old yearbook! Back in those days, we did not have Internet, so I spent time sleuthing through the Long Beach Public Library, looking at old newspapers on microfilm, combing through city directories, writing letters to complete strangers, looking through telephone books, etc. To make a short story long, I finally tracked down DOROTHY LAWLOR. She was living in Newport Beach, then 82 years old, and she was flabbergasted when she received my letter! She invited me over for a chat, and then I learned that she had married her classmate, Wilfred Charlton. She asked me why I had picked her out and I told her: You were the prettiest gal in the Class of 1923! Boy, she loved that! And she was still stunning! But here is where it gets very interesting. The search took me a couple of years. I didnt know it at the time, but I was always passing by their sons home on Santiago Canyon Rd. in Orange County, almost on a daily basis while going to and from our nursery in Trabuco Canyon! And Dorothy was always on my mind! Dorothy Lawlor Charlton was born in 1905 and passed away at her home in Dana Point, on August 18, 2003. She was 98 years old and lived a long, happy, and prosperous life. Im happiest when I am sleuthing and writing history, but I avoid antique shops like the plague! I should have been a detective, but I couldnt stand the blood and gore. What I do as a past time suits me just fine! And thats why I post all this stuff here. Rosemead High School history...we are all a part of it! We lived it, we were there! Wouldnt it be great if someone in the year 2033 found our 1970 Pantherama, picks the prettiest gal in our class, and tracks her down? I just wonder who she will be?!
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 04:32:01 +0000
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