Ruth I am so glad you had a great time when you were out here in California (Azusa) also that your Aunt was a great tour guide. If you went up into the San Gabriel Mountains, up Hwy 39, it took you up to Crystal lake, a place us kids use to go to, and my mom and her husband use to take a picnic up there on 4 th of July. The ship was the Queen Mary in the port of Long Beach, been there my self a few times, Marine World in San Diego, one of the biggest aquarium in California. I don't know the "pucker brush" That Safari place is now gone, but I do remember it !! Solvang is still there, have stopped there many a time on our way home from Oregon, have great sandwiches and good beer. Yes old Mexico "Tijuana", it's a border town, I am afraid it's not improved much, still dirty, lots of dogs running around, and not to safe a place to go. Our son use to go down there to a Orphanage, help out with the children, once he and some men from his church, built a large bathhouse, they put in showers, sinks, and toilets, they built it out of cinder blocks. Also around Christmas he went down there with some friends and baked cookies with the children, let them decorate the cookies for Christmas, something that simple, the children had never done before. They also took a Christmas tree and decorated it and the people at church bought presents for all the children in the orphanage, our son said "when you see how little they have, and yet they are so Happy" our problems seem so small !!! Glad you remember Azusa with fond memories, I only lived there about 3 1/2 years, after about ten years my mom and her husband bought a home in Covina, about 5 miles away. A few years ago, when we went to our tax man, who is in Covina, we drove over to where I use to live in Azusa, the house is still there, a house down the street was for sale, I picked up a for sale flyer, they were asking 375 thousand dollars. I don't think it was worth that, but California real estate is exspensive. I do remember there were a lot of Orange groves around where our house was, but I didn't see one Orange tree anywhere. Sully in Sunny California