Give him or her a copy of From "The Top of the Hill"...Growing up in the Daly City of the `20s and `30s, by Bernard C. Winn.

From "The top of the Hill" is an autobiographical account of growing up in a small American town during the years between the two World Wars. The author's town was Daly City, but after a few pages the reader will almost forget it isn't his/her own town.

It's about the games kids played, the fads that came and went, circuses, small-town politics, prohibition, the Great Depression, radios and radio programs, the old swimming hole, and volunteer fire departments. It's also about first jobs, first cars, first girlfriend, schools, boy scouts, the fish man, milk man and junk man. It's about a thousand things kids and grownups alike did during that period and which are only memories today. It's silent movies, early black and white talking pictures, first color motion pictures, burlesque theaters, vaudeville, amature hours, weiner roasts and much more.

The book actually goes beyond the 1930s, including such things as our entry into World War ll and a little beyond. Also covered are rationing, "Bundles for Briton," scrap drives, blackouts, mobilization, the military draft and the internment of thousands of American citizens of Japanese, German and Italian descent, in internment camps around the country.

Yes, Growing up in the Daly City of the `20s and `30s is about remembering what life was like when we grandparents and great-grandparents were growing up. They weren't necessarily the 'good old days,' but they were ours.

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FROM "THE TOP OF THE HILL"

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