•1948 / wonder bread

"Right after we came back from Camp, Pop tried to get bread from the Weber's guy, but he wouldn't sell to us...said, 'We don't sell to Japs'...so we always carried Langendorf & Wonder Bread.

"When the Weber's salesmen would come by in later years, my Pop always said no.  He never forgot."     [ben sakoguchi]
 

^ Customers with Mary "All the customers liked my Mom...she was such a nice person...fluent in Spanish.  And she could juggle three oranges...I was always asking her, and she was usually too busy...but when she did it, we'd all watch, and it

^ Customers with Mary

"All the customers liked my Mom...she was such a nice person...fluent in Spanish.  And she could juggle three oranges...I was always asking her, and she was usually too busy...but when she did it, we'd all watch, and it was...WOW..."  [ben sakoguchi]

 

^ Wonder Bread blimp "We went to see it!  They had a raffle and, 'I hope, I hope, I hope it’s me that gets to ride!'…of course the odds were slim…they had a LOT of vendors who sold Wonder Bread.  It was just my Pop & me who went, at

^ Wonder Bread blimp

"We went to see it!  They had a raffle and, 'I hope, I hope, I hope it’s me that gets to ride!'…of course the odds were slim…they had a LOT of vendors who sold Wonder Bread.  It was just my Pop & me who went, at the Tri-City Airport, out by Colton.   [ben sakoguchi]

^ Tri-City Airport hangar c.1940's   "My Pop's enthusiasm for Wonder Bread wasn't hurt by the endorsement of 'Stan the Man'...one of his baseball heroes."    [ben sakoguchi]

^ Tri-City Airport hangar c.1940's

 

"My Pop's enthusiasm for Wonder Bread wasn't hurt by the endorsement of 'Stan the Man'...one of his baseball heroes."    [ben sakoguchi]