With the holidays approaching, what better time to share some of my favorite Christmas memories from my childhood in the early 1950s? My sister and I (although living 3,000 miles apart for all of our ...

I grew up in the 1950s on Arthur Avenue, in Fresno, a transplant at age 6 from a vineyard in Kerman. My childhood home reflected the modest means and heritage of my immigrant father and ...

The childhood of the 1950s and 1960s was very different from that of children today. Mostly left to their own devices, and aided and abetted by downright dangerous toys, what could go wrong? Yet for ...