That’s the Way It Was is a memoir that will transport you back to early 20th century San Jose, where you’ll feel the excitement of Buffalo Bill’s circus coming to town, browse through Hester Market, take a walk through old Chinatown and meet Joe Savio the vegetable man… take a drive in a 1915 Franklin and ride the Red Car out to Alum Rock Park… glimpse an early Kodak photo finishing business and the miracle of radio…
Through the eyes of Standish Hulse – a descendent of Myles Standish and Daniel Boone – you’ll experience family tragedy, escape to sea on freighters, work in the engine room with the “black gang” and survive shipwrecks and storms…
Enter into a son’s devotion to his mother through twenty years of letters…
Experience World War II as a superintendent building destroyers for the Navy and commanding an M7 Howitzer tank through Germany in the last days of the war…
Live through post-war America as Stan marries and starts a family, and becomes a building contractor in the booming San Francisco bay area of the 1950s…
Follow Stan as he becomes a resort owner, and then into his retirement where he reconnects with his love of the sea by taking freighter trips with his wife around the world, and a river boat trip down the Amazon…
That’s the Way It Was is a life story of a man who played his part in the events of the last century and who shares with us his keen observations of “the way it was.”
See Chapter 4: 1913
See Chapter 5: Around the Neighborhood
See Chapter 6: The Circus
See Chapter 14: South America on the SS Cuzco
See Chapter 23: Marching Through Germany
See Chapter 24: End of the War
That’s the Way It Was: 430 pp., soft cover
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