OFI 388: One Too Many Highballs For Santa! | Christmas In A Small Farming Town In 1977

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Merry Christmas to all of you!  Thank you so much for making it possible for me to do this for the past three years (already)!  I have a favorite memory of my time growing up in Valley Home, California that happened 40 years ago on Christmas Eve.  I wanted to share this with you for my Christmas episode this year.

I could try and type out this story here for you to read, but I’m going to make you listen to it.  I grew up in a very special place; a town that was dying out.  We were there in what really were its last, best years and I’ve got a lot of fond memories from my childhood.  This story is just one of them.

Here are some photographs to help show you what I am talking about when I describe Valley Home and the alley where this took place.

This is what Wikipedia says about Valley Home today and the triangular shape of the town:

Here is a satellite image of Valley Home.  I lived in the bottom right of the triangle:

The purple pin is where the Valley Home Store is located.

Here is a close up of where my house and the Rinna’s are located:

Karen’s house in the center and mine is the brown, “L” shaped roof. The “incident” took place in the alley between our houses.

This is the front of my home, the window I was pressed against and the door that Santa left out of:

The kitchen door of the house I grew up in.

Here is the fence that caused all the trouble:

The short fence that caused all the problems….the shop was not there then.

A couple of photographs of the Valley Home Store:

The Valley Home Store today.

The gas pumps are gone and the post office is not longer being used.

Merry Christmas everyone!

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