1920 - 2001: Timeline - Outline
|
Link to:
|
1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 | |
|
|
Mary Pauline Cecilia
Kaleel Father: Mousa Jirius Kaleel - Ramallah. - Palestine Mother: Alma Aubertin - French Canadian |
|
| 1920 | Born Bee Bee River, New Hampshire. | |
| 1923½ | Concorde, New Hampshire - Mother's funeral - Memory of burial ceremony at cemetery. | |
| 1924 |
First foster home. North Woodstock, New Hampshire - Mrs. McCloud - Living on farm - Baptist home. | |
| 1926 | Started first grade - No kindigarden. | |
|
1926 - 27 |
Father retrieves Paula and off to Chicago to live in apartment by Layola University near beach - Father is blind. | |
| 1927 | Illinois Children's home and Aid Society took custody of Paula. | |
| 1927 |
Put into second foster home - Got hit by car - Moved to another foster home where father tried to molest Paula. | |
| 1927-32 |
Moved to third foster home where Paula met her foster sister and friend Patricia - The Tryon Family. Father ran a speakeasy. | |
| 1932-33 | Went to fourth foster home where father ran off with another woman. | |
| 1934 | Moved to fifth foster home in Chicago where the birth son was jealous of Paula. | |
| 1934-35 |
Went to sixth foster home in Oakpark, Illinois, where Paula was mother's helper - Time when Paula met James Whorton in park in Chicago - Started a relationship. | |
|
|
Got pregnant with Jimmy - Paula forced a miscarriage with tonic -Ran off with Jimmy and came back - Jimmy's parents decided that Paula should get married - Married in Waukeegan, Illinois - Jimmy's brother was best man - Paula and Jimmy get a third floor walkup apartment - Jimmy working at fruit market - Paula is house wife - Jimmy's mom wants Paula and Jimmy to move back home to live in his old room so they can save money - They do - Paula gets job at Montgomery Wards in Chicago -Paula gets pregnant again - Paula gets a real abortion at night from a doctor in Chicago - She is now 16 | |
| 1936 |
Leaves Jimmy - Moved to hotel room in Chicago - Still working at Montgomery Ward's - Starting to experiment with her own life. | |
|
|
Spring - Paula goes
to club called "Ball of Fire" in north side of loop - Went to
see performer Dick Buckley (Latter known as Lord
Buckley) - Got together after the performance for night - Paula gets
pregnant from Buckley. 
|
Buckley 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 on and on |
|
|
Spring-Winter - Called case worker, Miss Nevils, and arranged to go into home for unwed mothers - Entered and resided in home - Fred is born December 8, 1937 - Jimmy shows up to reconcile - Asks if Fred is his baby - Paula asks Jimmy to leave - Jimmy's parents have marriage annulled. | |
|
|
February - Case worker put Fred in baby home temporarily (Evanston Cradle) - Paula placed in Salvation Army program off of Madison Avenue (Skid Row) - Paula gets job as waitress for one day - Gets fired for not proving qualified - Runs into childhood foster sister, Patricia Tryon at another restaurant nearby where she is waitressing - Moves into apartment off of Madison with Patricia. | |
| 1938 |
Spring - In next room, cab driver named Butch, introduces Paula to "Goldy" - Goldy pays to get Fred out of Evanston Cradle - | |
| 1938 |
Paula gets Fred back - Moves into room with man and woman who had an extra room - Jimmy shows up for another attempt at reconciliation. Paula sends Jimmy away again. | |
| 1938 |
Summer - Meets man who loves Fred from same building - He is a bouncer at a club on Madison Avenue - He is taking care of Paula and Fred - Bouncer becomes physically abusive to Paula - Patricia shows up and tells Paula she knows a place where they can make some money. | |
| 1938 |
Summer - Paula moves into the Hotel Arthur in Downtown Chicago with two rooms and interconnecting bathroom servicing all Chinese male clients as "sexual therapist." | |
|
|
Summer - Moved out of the Arthur to a hotel around the corner with Pat to go into business for themselves - Guys from Arthur who were bringing the customers turn Paula and Pat into the police and they both end up in jail - Meanwhile Fred has been living with Patricia's aunt (Maria?) where Paula paid the boarding costs. | |
| 1938 |
Paula and Patricia get out of jail and get a different apartment on the North side of Chicago - They have cards made that say "Physical Therapist (2nd floor)." | |
| 1939 | Friend Patricia brought Paula to the Chelsea hotel in Chicago to meet Buckley to tell him he had a son - Paula meets Tommy Rousseau at Buckley's gathering at the hotel. | |
| 1939 | Summer - Buckley meets Fred at room on the North Side | |
|
|
Tommy and Paula hookup and get an apartment within a week on LaSalle Street on the North Side. Tommy is "striping cars" as a restorer getting customers out of bars - Met Carl Covelli, a mobster type who had worked for the Capone gang - After a few months Tommy, with the help of Covelli, put Paula in a prostitution house in Aurora, Michigan, for a month and a half with a Madame - Fred was being watched by a woman near LaSalle Street - Paula gets kicked out of the house for using Benzedrine - Tommy retrieves Paula and secures another apartment on the North Side in Chicago. | |
| 1940 |
Summer - Covelli got Tommy auto body shop almost across street from theatre where Dillinger got shot. Fred gets tricycle then breaks arm. Taken to hospital with Fred and Tommy by Covelli. | |
|
|
Summer - Tommy identified by false witness for series of robberies of Peacock laundry chain. Covelli brother a chancellor at law gets Tommy exonerated and wins damages against cleaners for false arrest. In hospital for 3 weeks with peritonitus. During hospital stay, police tear up apartment. | |
| 1941 |
Fred in cast. Tommy gets out of jail. Paula, Go by bus in winter to Tommy's parents home in Cody, Wyoming with Tommy and Fred. | |
| 1941 |
Winter - Live with Tommy's family. They run fish hatchery 8 miles out of Cody. Pearl Harbor. Tommy makes money playing cards in backroom of restaurant in Cody. | |
|
|
Winter - War with Japan. Get room with Tommy and Fred in Cody. Get waitress job in restaurant where Tommy gambles. Tommy gets job building Heart Mountain Japanese internment camp outside Cody. He is promoted to construction foreman. Still waitressing as restaurant becomes busy. Make lunches to bring to camp construction site. Left when camp completed. | |
|
|
May - Company sends Tommy to Topeka KS as labor superintendent for building Naval hospital. Bought house. Finally making money. Between 1932 and 1935, Tommy had band called Tommy King & his Aces of Rhythm in Kansas City. He knew Count Basie and Fats Waller. Saw Lionel Hampton in roadhouse outside Topeka. Most labor was blacks. Tommy recruited labor in black club. Frequent Topeka black clubs with Tommy as only whites there. Tommy is in jazz scene. Found wild hemp beside roads and hid it in car with Tommy. Car loaned to black worker arrested for getting in fight. Car returned to Tommy; police never found marijuana. | |
|
|
Winter - Topeka hospital job completed. Go back to Cody with Tommy's construction co-worker, grandson of Wild Bill Hickock, and his female companion. Married Tommy in Licolnm NE during trip with Hickock grandson as best man. Company gets contract to build ALCAN (Alaska-Canada) highway. Stayed at Tommy's parents' house. Sent with Fred to Tommy's house in Sacramento CA for short time. | |
| 1943 |
Spring - Live in little trailer in park with Fred for two months. Meet boxer and date platonically for three months. | |
|
|
Summer - Tommy returns and is jealous of boxer. Tommy ill from Alaska living conditions. Give Tommy ultimatum that he must stay. Tommy gets job fixing planes through military placement at Sacramento Air Depot. He received doctor's job deferment due to feet and legs on cement floors. Stay with Tommy and Fred in motel bungalow. | |
|
|
August - Tommy gets job in surveying group for Goldfield NV airfield project. Move into Victorian hotel in Goldfield ghost town for two months. Collect turquoise and amethyst glass from hills and dump. | |
|
|
September - Went south for work. Not permitted on bus with dog. Hitchhiked ride with Okies looking for work. Got hotel in El Paso by leaving fur coat as security for room. Got waitress job at Red Mill restaurant. Tommy got job on railroad restoring passenger cars. Tommy meets future construction partner Bob McAuliffe. Form McAuliffe & Rousseau construction company. Bob was son of Yaqui indian mother and European father. Got nice house near north of town away from border. Started job right away on Bigg Field project then William Beaumont general military hospital. | |
| 1943 |
Next project was building roads to White Sands project. Take care of Fred and housekeeping in El Paso. | |
|
|
Summer - Got appendicitis; appendix removed. Tommy has "20%-er" military guy telling him how much to bid in exchange for kickback. Company is caught; Tommy is prosecuted. Fred starts school in El Paso. Raise cocker spaniels. Open first dog grooming parlor in El Paso. Dog "Curly" wins best of breed at dog show. | |
|
|
Fall - Leave town with Tommy. Crate records by rail freight. Left personal things, photos and records with McAullife to retrieve later. Never went back. Went west. Car trouble in Yuma. Found party at auto garage and got room with family there. Tommy and mechanic try to make booze run drunk with car up on blocks with no tires. | |
|
|
Fall - Went from Yuma to Chula Vista CA. Got trailer in park with Fred and dogs. Tommy got job on El Cajon Blvd stripping cars at dealerships. Met friends Sammy (Mexican) and Jeannie (white) Garcia. Had brought their dog, Bosco, from El Paso. | |
| 1944 |
Winter - Moved to bungalows on pilings on road out of Ocean Beach CA channel. Each got bungalow on pilings with Tommy, Sammy and Jeannie. Tommy got scooter with side car. Lived there a year. | |
|
|
Fall - Tommy wants to live in big city. Move into Van Nuys CA trailer park with Tommy, Fred and dogs. Got job in downtown Hollywood. Take Red Car to go to restaurant waitress job. Tommy still detailing cars. | |
| 1946 |
Got smaller travel trailer and went camping that summer, fishing and traveling for a couple of months. | |
|
|
Fall - Returned and got little house in San Fernando valley CA. Lived in Canoga Park CA for year and a half. Earthquake bad enough to make ground roll. Family took house back; had to move | |
|
1946 - 50
|
Spring - Moved to two bedroom house on old road in Topanga Canyon CA. Had land with corral, two horses and brook crossing property. Not working in Hpllywood after three months after moving to Canoga Park CA. Stayed home due to disabling leg problem. Tommy went to downtown Los Angeles to play cards. He brought bad element to Topanga. Insisted he not bring low lifes home. Topanga became "the ranch". Set up bunk beds and guest quarters. Chicago painter & lithographer von Physter came to stay. He later made series of paintings and book about vanishing lighthouses of North American Pacific. | |
|
1951 - 55
|
Moved to Agoura CA near Malibu when Tommy bought 2.5 acres with well. Water witched the hole which was clear, clean water. Had found home and was tired of roaming but Tommy's paranoia moved us to Las Vegas but only got as far as Bullhead City. Found corner lot and two bungalows for $3500. Started making jewelry. Had rock tumbling machine. Called place the "Last Resort". Federal land was on one side and Bullhead City on other so property was last from town. Represented last chance for Tommy. Had boat & waterskis. What would be Laughlin was wild desert across river. Tommy went to Los Angeles to work. Huntz Hall from Dead End Kids movies visited. Did all housework and feeding guests. Had little three stool bar, master bed with bath and bungalows. | |
|
|
Laughlin became too much drinking and partying. Started pulling down property. Needed help so brought down Albert Shurewood from Las Vegas. Had goosepimples first time he came in room. Was photographed for newspaper with record fish catch. Found laying on rug with Albert when Tommy came home from work in Los Angeles unexpectedly when road washed out. Tommy forgave us to prevent breaking up the scene. Went to Vegas with Alberr a couple of weeks later after Tommy went to work in Los Angeles. Got some of Albert's belongings and left together for Culver City. Got hotel room. Ran into Lady Buckley in pizza parlor in the neighborhood. They had Tommy their group. She wanted me to come home with her but went back to hotel. Went with Albert to San Diego. Managed an old 1911 apartment building on PArk Ave. Albert went to work on ferry and as room service attendant at Hotel del Coronado. | |
| 1957-
61 |
Fred was in Army for three years at 29 Palms training as tank driver. Rented to a lot of navy wives, barefoot and pregnant fresh off the farm. Weren't needed anymore when building sold. Moved to duplex ib Pill Hill in Hillcrest. Went to school at Kelsey Jenny for hotel/motel training. Took real estate course. Made manager in Coronado at @nd & D St. Albert still working at Hotel del Coronado. | |
| 1960 |
Fred's father Lord Buckley died in NYC working without cabaret card. Rumored to have been killed by police. | |
| 1961
- 64 |
Fred still in Army at Twenty-Nine Palms. Four years at Coronado. Tommy got stabbed by girlfriend, saving his life when cut revealed tuberculosis. | |
|
1965 - 70
|
Albert stuttered. He started using LSD to overcome condition. He didn't like me smoking grass but later became enamored with it and apologized for dissuading me. The LSD was curing Albert's stuttering. Met Patricia Adams during beginning of hippie period through one of her kids. She was Coronado mother who sent her kids to beach with bottle of beer so they would get a record which kept them out of the war. Her husband was a Navy pilot in Nam. She was in anti-war demonstrations up and down the coast. She had four sons from different fathers. Floored when Albert died from brain aneurism. Kept working at Night & Day cafe on Orange St. Cried afte work. Moved back to Los Angeles at insistance of Los Angeles friend Louise who came to visit. Lived in Echo Park one block from Sunset Ave. Friend David Banks and his wife were breaking up. He called to ask if he could stay for a couple of days while in Los Angeles. Landlord asked both us if we wanted to rent his old family home down the street and up the hill. Moved in together. Got rent by cycling loony tenants in and out. Rented house for porn movie. | |
|
|
David and Michael Zamoro started waterbed concession at stoplight on Sunset Ave between Echo Park and Silverlake. Had "Crochet Workshop" bead and accessory shop at there. Musician also had acquaintance living there who was formerly with Benny Goodman Orchestra. David and Michael eventually ran it into the ground. But shop with beads and consignment went well, including appointments. Moved due to building fire towards Santa Monica and Robinson into small building with passway between streets and little stall rooms on both sides. Set up pegboard, painted and put waterbed in corner. Did pretty good there. Were still in Echo Park apartment. | |
|
|
John Gibbon visited after coming into the scene. John was fronting for Jews with bungalows on Featherbow Ranch in Carmel Valley CA. We would entertain people at the place. We planned riding stables. We removed old barbwire to open property. Started remodeling building. Sent workers to neighbors' pool for a break after work and they created scandal swimming nude. Made friends with locals incl Joan Baez' sister who grew strongest smoke. | |
|
|
Found a space on Cannery Row in Monterrey and opened crochet shop, selling consignment crafts, shawls and jackets. Was good there. David worked as a local reporter doing a radio report a few times a month. He played the southern gentleman in the shop, finnessing female clientele. Married David there. Cat wandered in to stay. Bust of Steinbeck was put near water. David read his own poem at unveiling. Evicted right before at Christmas with shop full of merchandise. David got in argument with landlord. Went to work as waitress for local woman with small restaurant. Found house to live in in neighborhood. Set up small shop with glass porch but nothing ever sold. Got job as lunch cook for seniors. | |
|
1974 - 78
|
Decided to go back to San Diego. Lived in old hotel with bungalows at foot of Washington St. Found house in India St arts colony. Started India St Poets Theatre on Sunday nights. Cooked greens on the stove and people would read. Was cordial gathering, relaxed and nice. Doing alterations. Rented back house to artists. Bass player Robert Drury and flautist/congero Manuel "Zopilote" Mancillas became impromptu orchestra behind readers. Went up to visit John Gibbons then went to stay with woman and friends. | |
|
|
Winter - Left David at the house; fed up with him. David reported in state of inertia. Moved in with son Fred at "Rancho Bluebell" in end of San Fernando Valley. Got job minding kids in nice Laurel Canyon house while mother worked. Got good wages. Cooked and ate together about six months. | |
|
|
Spring - Got intuition at party something was wrong with David. Wrote him a letter. Went and stayed with him at his room at Grand Pacific Hotel. He was gravely ill. Stayed with him until he died in Mercy Hospital with tubes attached. | |
|
1984 - 87
|
July - My grandaughter was Misha. 2 more kids followed in 1986 and 1988. Decided to leave when overloaded with Stephanie's demands. Found apartment on Pennsylvania St. Juliette asked if I would nanny. Became line-in nanny for Greg and Juliette M. Cooked, cleaned, played cards a lot with Greg. Juliette out working Teamster job for the movies. I got a little trailer for my car and started on tour of living, headed east and spent night in Yuma parking lot. Stayed in Oakcreek near Sedona AZ, switching between camps every 2 weeks. Went to Grand Canyon with Shanti. Sent her back and went north to find Patricia. Settled in a trailer park near Garberville in Redway. | |
|
1984 - 85
|
Patricia lived with some people in a teepee. Her son Mark and his girlfriend had a grass farm near Phillipsville. Neighbor in the trailer park was some woman selling drugs and getting favors from the local men. | |
| 1985 | Community was under siege from CAMP and drug interdiction troops. Redway radio station would broadcast the location of CAMP searches. Locals were in a state of resistance. | |
| 1986 | Came back south. Couldn't find anyplace suitable to land. Parks turning my little trailer away. | |
|
|
Lived behind an old house on Upas St. Met Jack and Steve and that group. Ran into a guy at Fred's in L.A. weeks later that had told me to check out his place in Baja. Came down and moved into La Jolla camp. Lived there awhile but didn't like the restrictive attitude. Ran into Miguel Gomez and his 15 year old son when living there. | |
|
1988 - 89
|
While complaining one day, they came over with plans for the new section of Cantu available from the ejido. If I knew Miguel had reputation as a local pederast, I would never have moved with him. | |
|
1989 - 99
|
Ten years on hill. Bought an old wood cabana from the beach and another old large trailer. Established a homestead on the hill over the mud flats of Ensenada bay. Miguel had citizenship of some sort and purchased the land for a couple thousand American. | |
|
|
Lived up there almost ten years before an illness and the craziness of the hill dwellers made it a better proposition to move into the township of Cantu in the old Dive shop by the road close to the micro. Here I am. | |
| < Previous - TOC - Next > | ||
 |
|
|