Telling It Like It Was
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TELLING IT LIKE IT WAS: My First Quarter Century by Lloyd Root is a vivid coming of age story and intimate portrait of what it was like to grow up as a dual citizen of the vibrant shipping port city of San Francisco in the 1920s and 30s, as well as the rural ranchland and mining communities nearby. Roots neighborhood included families of Italian, French, Irish, Mexican, Serbian, Greek descent, as well as a few other Basque families like his own, making it a fascinating place for a boy to grow up. Youngsters were drawn together by the sheer diversity of their various cultural and ethnic origins. Sports played an important role. Basketball, baseball, soccer, even games of kick the can became a driving force in forming relationships, developing skills, and instilling values. In a sense they provided a preview of the way the world works. Young Root, feisty with his fists and quick on his feet, thrived on playing ball in the streets during the days when there were no computers, television, video games and handheld devices to get in the way of sports. From his active and carefree childhood years of growing up Basque in a home filled with music, laughter, and love, to the far more serious realities of life at that time, all were formative. Of the latter, this included the rebirth of San Francisco in the aftermath of the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire, the challenging years of the Great Depression, and coming of age in the era between World War I and II. It was a time of great change in terms of politics, culture, music, innovation and technology. The advent of telephones, radios, and automobiles, alone, vastly changed the way people lived. But for young Lloyd, it was aviation that had the most impact. Reading about Charles Lindberghs triumphs in the newspapers he delivered, and watching Amelia Earhart fly across the nearly completed Golden Gate Bridge, went a long way toward fueling his boyhood passion to become a pilot, something he achieved by the time he
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