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The Clam Diggers' Kids - Robert (Bob) Hart
The Clam
Diggers’ Kids
Robert (Bob) Hart
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CONTENTS
DECISION
MOVING
GRANDPA
OUR CARS
DANGERS
HOME ALONE
DRESSING FOR DIGGING
LAWFUL LIMITS
NIGHT DIGGING
INVENTION
DIGGING
SAVING CARS
LOST AUTO
FRIENDS
THE MOORES
OUR WELL
PLAY
OUR DOG
DUNE DWELLERS
HOBOS
TRAINS’ ENGINEERS
SANDFORDS
WHITES
BETRAYED
PROHIBITION
KIDS CLAMMING
MY BIG TOE
SCHOOL
DISCIPLINE
MORE DISCIPLINE
SCHOOL YARD
TO AND FROM
RECESS
MY PROTECTOR
SMOKING
BLACKSMITH
DROWNINGS
MORRO BAY
FLOOD
HAULING SAND
RIPTIDE
FILIPINOS
A SPECIAL PLACE
TAR
BUGGY TRIP
SHELL BEACH
OTHER WORK
RAILROAD TRACKS
FRANK’S BROTHER
SUN PORCH
HUNTING
TOOTH
STOVE
THINGS OF INTEREST
RIGHT RESULT
27843.jpgDECISION
The year is 1924. We are living in rural Southern California. Montebello is just nine miles east from Los Angeles.
Mom is quite ill. She has a really huge goiter, and now has neither strength nor endurance to walk across the room from one chair to another. She’s been told by Dr. Brown that thyroid removal is much too risky, that what she needs is daily intake of iodine from a natural source. The question is—how can that be made available?
Dad farms a small acreage of fig trees. That’s been the source of our living for as long as Betty and I can remember. My sister is seven years old and I’m just five. She has started to school, but I have not. Dad’s meager living is made by selling packed boxes of brown turkey figs in Los Angeles. They’re loaded onto his horse drawn wagon for an overnight trip to the wholesale food market. The horse knows its way home, so that’s when Dad sleeps.
Our grandmother, Dad’s mother lives about two hundred miles away, in San Luis Obispo county, in a tiny village named Oceano. Most folks there are poor, and many eke out a living by digging and selling Pismo clams. These are found in the sand beneath the shallow ocean water during low tide. The Pacific Ocean is only about a mile from town. Dad decides to lease his farm to a near neighbor, and move north to Oceano, expecting to make such living as may be possible by digging and selling clams. That is so Mom can absorb iodine from the ocean water. This is thought to be the only real hope for overcoming Mom’s thyroid illness.
MOVING
Our move to Oceano happened without incident, at night while we kids slept under old woolen army blankets. Our family’s collie dog, Laddie, horse, Dick, and cow, Bonnie, come with us. Once we are all in Oceano, we stay with Grandma for a while. Dad orders a ready-cut lumber kit, for building a small two-bedroom house, to be located on vacant land next door to Grandma’s place. It doesn’t take very long before we move into our new home.
GRANDPA
Our Grandpa, Dad’s father, had died before either Betty or I was born, so when we arrive at Grandma’s house we become acquainted, for the first time, with the person we come to know as Grandpa. He