My memories of many events in my childhood is pretty fuzzy. I think I have tried to bury some of my unhappy memories. Good memories have been lost in the collateral damage. Old pictures can bring some of those memories flooding back. The picture below was one of those good memories.
Kitten rescue at 2352 Craig Avenue, Sacramento, California about 1961 Left to right: Vicky Cimino, Elaine Kelly, Vince Cimino and Nick Cimino with hands on hips. |
I am estimating that I was about seven years old which places the date at 1961. It appears that I was pretty proud of myself for crawling under our house and rescuing this litter of kittens. The mama cat had delivered her kittens inside the foundation of our fireplace. We could hear the mewing in the vicinity of our fireplace so my parents sent me into the crawl space on the rescue mission. It was a difficult extraction process reaching inside the opening in the bricks.
We are all standing near the opening to the crawl space and "Gram" Elaine is holding a tray of kittens with a dish of milk. Vince is wearing a Yogi Bear sweatshirt. Our father was a telephone installer and you can see the telephone connection on the wall. I crawled under the house several times to add telephone wire as we had phones in several rooms of the house. Our mother probably took the picture. Gram Elaine was always a "sharp-dressed" woman. A few years later Gram Elaine was back at the house full-time when our Mom spent several months in the hospital.
Gram Elaine drove a red Corvair Monza convertible to her secretarial job at the State Capitol. I was allowed to go out to the car and start the engine on the frosty mornings in Sacramento. I would also get a ride to school at my junior high school which was once named Charles Goethe and has since been renamed to Rosa Parks Middle School.
Here is a chronology of all of the schools that I attended in and around Sacramento:
- 1960-1963 Freeport Elementary Grade 1-3, 2118 Meadowview Road Sacramento, CA 95832
- 1963-1965 John Bidwell Elementary Grade 4-6 accelerated, 1730 - 65th Avenue Sacramento, CA 95822
- 1965-1966 C.M Goethe Jr. High School [renamed Rosa Parks Middle School] 2250 - 68th Avenue Sacramento, CA 95822
- 1966-1968 John Still Jr. High; 2250 John Still Drive Sacramento, CA 95832
- 1968-1971 J.F. Kennedy High School, Graduation 1971; 6715 Gloria Drive Sacramento, CA 95831
- 1971-1973 Cosumnes River College; 8401 Center Parkway, Sacramento, CA 95823
- 1973-1975 U.C. Davis, graduation June 1975, B.A. Political Science
Vicky shared a couple of other pictures that illustrate our experience at Lake Tahoe where Gram Elaine and Grandpa George lived:
Here are some family group shots that we took in front of Faran's house.
Mark Smith, Vicky Cimino Smith, Denise Brooks Cimino, Brina Cimino, Faran Cimino and Nick Cimino |
Faran, Vicky and Nick |
Faran displaying his Ford Falcon "Woody" Wagon |
Faran has adorned his classic car with surf decals. |
Faran, Denise, Brina and Cameron Cimino. The phone booth in Faran's yard is a nice tribute to our father's career at the phone company. |
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