Homers Boy Life And Times Of The Son Of Homer

A collection of stories and events from memory of growing up in the great depression era, and a family who learned that survival meant working at any kind of labor available for whatever salary they could get. Lloyd and his father Homer had been to California, when Lloyd was 15 years old, he turned 16 along the way. They worked for a while, and decided to return to Oklahoma to bring the family to California. They spent a year getting ready, and finally loaded up the trailer with all of their possessions and joined the great migration moving west. They worked their way by picking cotton, working along the way at whatever they could find to do, and slowly moving west. In spite of the breakdowns, flat tires, and running out of gas, after several months, they made it to California with the trailer having lost both wheels, and worn down the hubs descending the last hill, and came into town the car was pulling it like a sled. They arrived in Indio on August 10th, 1939. There they made their home forthe next ten years. Lloyd fought wild fires in The CCC's, was a Cowboy in Texas, and a Tractor operator. Truck driver in California, Meat cutter, World War II Veteran. In later years Lloyd and his wife, visited many foreign countries, and sailed on several Seas.Sims, Lloyd R. is the author of 'Homers Boy Life And Times Of The Son Of Homer', published 2004 under ISBN 9781418450557 and ISBN 1418450553.