My grandmother and friend (early photo)...

The year 1954, standing in front of our second residence, on the corner of Wisconsin and Alvarado Streets, is my grandmother, Mama Berenice, on the right, and next to her is a friend who came to visit with her husband...You are looking at a corner view of our house...A large palm tree, not in view, sits in the foreground...I was, most likely, taking this photo with my Kodak Brownie Camera...I was at age eleven, at the time...I never could figure out why they got rid of this wonderful old house for a track house, on the other side of Pomona, and when the track house was also located right next to the Interstate 10 Freeway...Whereas, this was a quite location and a friendlier location...In fact, at the track house, where the family moved to in April of 1957. when I was in the nineth grade at achool, in back of our house at that location was just an alley, then there was a fence, and beyond the fence was the freeway, and the noise was continuous...The track house was at 671 Elaine Street in Pomona, California...And also, there was less room for everybody in the newer house....But this was my mother and grandmother`s systematic method of squeezing all the unwanted members of our family (meaning, all my mother`s offspring,which was myself, my brother and probably, even my sister) out of the family so that there would only be my mother and my grandmother remaining...And this is exactly what had occurred to our family...And it was on my mother`s side of the family that all this happened, not my father`s side, as I never lived with my father, nor did I ever have a father, nor even a mother, for that matter...

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