I have mentioned to a few of you that I have access to all the tapes Pops made when my parents asked him to record his life history. My mom is working on finishing the transcription and editing process to make a concise, non-repetive life story. I don’t know when that will be available.
For those of you who don’t mind overlap and want to hear Pops tell the stories himself, the audio files are available on this page.
This contains all the files Pops dictated from 2007-2009. Enjoy.
Ivan’s genealogy/Ivan is born
Childhood memories / Bikes, arrows, and rocks
444 D Avenue pigeons / Clarence pours concrete
Ivan goes to school
Ivan gets drafts
From Okinawa to Cebu to Japan
Japanese public baths
Basketball
Raising chickens
Fishing as a youth
77th to the First Cavalry
Jane’s wages / Easy money / Clarence dies
Fishing at Lake Henshaw
Deer hunting at Hume Lake
Mom and Pops meet with a little help from Jane
More dates with Mom
Other girls
Mimi’s cottage
Weekend at Muscle Beach
Marriage proposal and honeymoon
First remodel as married couple
Peeping tom / The chase
M. H. Golden / Mom’s Hepatitis / 939 E Avenue
Painting the kitchen at 939 E Avenue
939 E Avenue Remodel
Douglas and Lee are born
Garage behind 939 E Avenue
939 E Avenue cont’d
The Music Man / 93 E Avenue
The Sand Box
Ivan Jr. is born / 942 D Avenue is purchased / Remodel begins
Patio at 942 D Avenue
Patio at 942 D Avenue cont’d
Master bedroom remodel at 942 D Avenue
Three is enough..then came Blaine
Back Surgery / Mom goes back to work
Mom, Dad, Doug, and Lee go fishing on Lake Henshaw
Doug and Lee run away form home
The Lizard
Surf fishing
Mortgage, finance…Advice from Pops
Back injury additional info
465 B Avenue bough, remodeled, and moved into
Master bath at 465 D Avenue
938 D Avenue
Leo’s house, the alley at 7th and D
Garage behind 477 B Avenue becomes an apartment
Pool room at 465 B Avenue
Comping trip to Yellowstone National Park
Kilometer 181 / Punta Carba
The bachelor and Miss Whitaker working for Art Olds
Douglas and Lee mix it up
Accident at 5th and B / Stewart Stalls’ mother
Air conditioning in the International Chiquita Banana
Douglas: CCH, mission in Australia, and Golashes
The boys and their respective sports
Shotguns / Imperial Valley dove hunts
Pops throws his own surprise birthday party
Heating 465 B Avenue
Pops gets Cayenne (German Short Hair)
Cayenne and Mom
Popcorn and Koolaid and Sunday nights
Loading for a hunting trip / Anvil in the steamer trunk
Anvil is returned to Tom Stoghill
Brown and serve rolls for the hunt
Javelina hunting in Arizona
Cutting and splitting Eucalyptus
Nancy gets a hair cut with the boys
Hunting in Mexico
Barney Davis hunting
Moving day from 465 B to 477 B
Moving 477 B to the back lot / Becoming 1309 5th
FYI Mortgage on 465 B Avenue
Trip to Florida for the Shuttle launch
Cruising
Battleship Missouri and its 16 inch guns / Thoughts of the ships off Okinawa
To Alaska after mom died / “Cruising alone was no fun”
Helping Mom during her illness
The history of the Partnership
Partnership cont’d
The Javelina
The antelope
Mountain lion and bobcat
The bear and the mountain goat
The elk and the mule deer
The teal
White tail deer and quail with Earl Halfmanan (army buddy)
Pine desks and dressers and the stereo cabinet
Pictures basic training and the old high school
Letter to a girlfriend
32nd Orange Festival and Mary Bryant
Pops joins the Mormons
The Relief Society caring for Mom / Being made whole again
Something tickled Pops’s fancy
A few words of counsel
The Depression
Asthma Medication
Helping Mimi with the laundry
Loading the ships in preparation for the invasion of Japan / Lunch with the sailors
Japanese surrendering at Cebu
Shark fishing in the bay
The real story about how I lost my fingers
Our first cat / Swimming lessons
Pigeon pie at 942 D Avenue
“You likey flish, you come Fliday”
Luggage and $50
Masking tape and .22 shells for Christmas
Deer hunt in Panguitch, Utah
Sign off for now
My football career
Hunting in Panguitch, part II
Hunting in Colorado
Smoked venison
Mountain lion
I’m in construction and real estate
Back to bed
Peeping tom, part II
Phantom itch in my fingers that weren’t there
Cormorant hunting / Shooting in the bay / San Diego Pollution Committee
