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I think I was pretty successful in looking back, there were lessons I learned. If you can use any of
them, be my guest. Perhaps it will get you thinking.

This is intended to tell you what started all this. How it came about, also what happened through
the journey and along the way. Some items may be funny, many sad. A lot of interesting things happened.
There was a lot of stuff happening and I never knew how I was going to use it but they all came in handy. I
close now, the movie is long and about to begin.

Thank you for reading, so get comfortable and don't go to sleep.
Norm

- -- - Chapter 03 Chapter 03 -- Looking Back From my Dad
Chapter 03 Chapter 03 --
Well I guess a good place to start is with my dad's name. It was Lawrence Norman Vaughan and he
was born down in Blanche, Missouri, Douglas County, also known as “burgar County”, don’t know why. He
lived on the farm with my grandpa and the worked the farm which wasn't much of a farmers paradise but
and I didn't talk to him a whole lot but I did hear a couple stories about him when he was younger, with his
younger brother Harry.

“…There was once when they were on the way to school, walking of course, and they saw a
skunk. They chased him into an old log and then poked him out with a stick so they could
mess with him. By the time they got to school, the teacher said you guys stink, so my dad
nono
asked his brother Harry, Do you smell anything? and Harry said nonoI don't smell anything.
The teacher made them sit outside for the rest of the day because the other people didn't
want to smell them".

That was one of the stories that Dad told me about growing up. Dad taught me to work hard.
He was working on the farm and he finished the eighth grade and then I guess he got tired with the
farm so he went up to Chicago. I think there were relatives up there. He was in Chicago and he worked as
Bus Boy first and chased women. I don't know how he did it but somehow he got into a machine shop and
then went to school and learned how to be a machinist. mostly on-the-job. He's got all the machinist tools
and I still have some of them.

He did that for a while and then the WWII, broke out in Europe. There were a lot of jobs in Los
Angeles so he went to school and learned how to be a Electrician.

Dad then moved to Los Angeles and worked as an Electrician in the shipyards. That were making
ships for the war effort. He did work hard. On the weekends he would go to dances. That is where he
met my mom. She and her sisters would go by the dance clubs (USO) to dance and talk. These where
social gatherings where people danced and that's where dad met mom and I don't know if he could dance
very good or not, but they started dancing and they struck up a relationship.

I think Dad was looking for a farm-type girl that could do everything and that's what mom was,
though not from the farm, she could do everything. Remember she had finished two years at UCLA. So
they got married and they first got an apartment, over on Zamora Street.. At about the same time Bill and
Alan ere both Navy guys and they were in the service. When they got home they met Mom’s Sisters. After
they married Helen and Lulu. Alan wnd Lulu bunked in with mom and dad. Helen and Bill bunked in with
grandma and grandpa, in their house on Gramercy. They built their own houses, and Dad helped. I didn't
hear too much of their story but I'm trying to get it from Sandy Tarrico. I guess when Loraine came along in
April 1943, and they got a house over in the Montebello and set up shop

I know that my dad went from Missouri to Chicago and then Los Angeles. The questions I still
didn't get answered were what was in Chicago and who lived there?

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