Hayward California
Once Upon a Time in Hayward, There Was a Little Boy ...
Posted 11-12-09. Once upon a time in a place called Hayward, California, there was a little boy with a gap-toothed grin ...
He lived in a pink house with a wonderful family and although his father died and knocked a hole in all their lives ...
The boy did what boys do. He played outside, he threw rocks, he climbed fences, he rode skateboards and bicycles. At Hayward High he played basketball well enough for a newspaper cartoonist to do a feature on him for the Daily Review ...
After high school he left Hayward for college but came back one summer to work as a lifeguard at a lake in Castro Valley ...
From there he left Hayward pretty much for good. But, fully into his bearded mountain man phase, he did return to Hayward-Castro Valley again to be Best Man at his brother's wedding ...
From there he became a reporter and writer ...
And now, all grown up with a wonderful family of his own, he will return to the place where it all began to talk about his new book, Wheels of Change: From Zero to 600 MPH, The Amazing Story of California and the Automobile. Here are the particulars about the evening, so if you're not doing anything tonight, come on out and say hello. And if you can't make it to Hayward, there is always the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum on Saturday at 1 p.m. Hoo-yah!
P.S. In the wedding picture, from left to right, the boy, Dave Nelson, Phil Deatsch, Phil Carlson, Larry Gordon and Dave Baker.
