prune picker

This is the blog of a prune picker. (Native born Californian) Retired oilfield. I am an old man. I blog a lot about my body and getting old. As I approach death life gets more interesting. More interesting is not good. I still drive. I attend sports, music, and civic events. I am writing my memoirs. I attend swim class three times a week. Some of my blogs might be interesting. A lot of my blogs are silly and trivial. None are very long.

Friday, September 13, 2013

Memories of a Prunepicker during the Okie Migration..

We know that the definition of Prunepicker is a person who is a native born Californian. I was born in Pomona, California in 1925. My folks moved from Kansas in 1907. My oldest sister Nita was born in Oklahoma on the way to California. I and my other seven siblings were born in California. You might say that my folks were very early Okies. A quarter of a million Okies ( people from Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas) moved to my area  from 1935 to 1940. I was growing from ten to fifteen. Most of my friends were Okies. I can remember being at a function and I was the only Prunepicker present!


One family of Okies lived across the alley (remember alleys?) from our house. My older brother married the oldest girl in the family. I like Okies.




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