June 2, 1946

June 2, 1946

664 W 13th

San Pedro, Calif

Dear Father, Mother, and the rest of the folks at home,

Today and yesterday have been “Chamber of Commerce” Calif days — except of course that the days started out cloudy. This cleared up tho by about ten or so and the rest of each day was very clear. Like the radio announcer I heard say, “Summer has come to Calif for sure at last.” It will be nice if he is right.

Friday evening the party for the Nyquists was held — it was rather dull but fortunately didn’t last very long. It was after ten tho when I got back to my room tho. Saturday I got up about six and went down to church and played on the piano till about 8:30; then went downtown for breakfast. Usually on Saturdays & Sundays I breakfast at Thrifty’s but they had shut down the restaurant part of the store on Saturday for some reason so I had to go elsewhere. This means that I will have to look around for another good palce to eat in the future. After breakfast I bought some lunch provisions for the next week’s lunches, went to the bank, bought some shorts (I got 5 pairs of knit shorts; this really surprised me) and a couple of T-shirts. I went to the library for awhile and then had dinner about the middle of the afternoon. In the evening I went up to My. Neiburg’s, the church treasurer, and helped him run down a discrepancy between his books & the bank balance. I didn’t get to bed till after eleven.

This morning I got up and read till time to breakfast & after church I played on the piano till after 2. I came back to my room, changed clothes, went downtown, had dinner, took a walk and came back about 5. Since then I have read etc till now, when of course, I am writing this. It is cooling off now so perhaps I’ll take a little walk and mail this.

That just about summarizes my activities to date. By the way, when is Vivian coming? if she wants to stay a couple of days down in San Pedro, she can stay at Mrs. Eldridge’s; she offered me to do so in church this morning. It might be nice since it is quite a ways by P.E. between Pasadena & San Pedro. Anyway, she can think about it.

This is all for now.

With love

C.P.