Summertime

Summertime brings back many memories for me. Especially as I still live very close to Knott's Berry Farm and Disneyland.

Today is the 4th of July. I can remember many years I spent working on the 4th and the days at the old amusement park would be so busy. Early on in Fiesta Village the seal lions would be barking for food and I could hear the bleating goats in the Animal Farm. The music from the famous Ballet Folklorico de Lampara del Cielo. (Or the name similar to that.) As they would perform every hour all day. The guests asking all day where are the restrooms or the Log Ride, or the Calico Mine Ride, etc,(if I could have a nickel for every question). The long lines for tacos and burritos. The iron on T-shirts, and the infamous candy store. The sounds of the gunshots of the train robbers and stagecoach robbers and the clinging of the chains on the horses as they pass us by on the stagecoach. Voices of the guests screaming in the background as they would go down the last fall of the log ride. it is ghost like in my memory.

 I can remember doing hundreds of silhouettes each day for guests from around the world. The lines would be long all day. I could hardly understand their language and barely communicate with them. But with a lot of pointing and smiling we managed to understand what was needed. The number of silhouettes and how many frames, square or oval. We managed. Oh yes. I miss those days sometimes and most days I don't. I am glad to service  people I do. Especially he way I do now  with the parties, weddings, customized the way each one wants it exactly the way they like it. I know the way it used to be in the summertime years ago. And for all the years I endured and enjoyed it. I have come to be of service to you.