Please tell us about your Coronado Memory
It was the year 1962 and Mrs. Moody was my troop leader. Her daughter was Gayle was in my 2nd grade class at Crown School with Mrs. Naylor for a teacher.
I loved to sell things. So that is how it all started.
At that time our family lived on the 600 block of J Ave and the Free’s lived right behind us on the 600 Block of Alameda.
Instead of going door to door which I loved doing but thought of selling the cookies at the store. Paul Free helped me build a cookie stand out of the wooden fruit boxes from the back of the store and set it up for me out front of the grocery store.
I can remember the back of the grocery store by heart. It had a wooden stairway to go up- stairs, but mostly the wooden boxes that held the glass soda bottles. It was always busy back in the back.
The Oscar Meyer Weiner truck always came by and parked out front. I still have my Oscar Meyer Weiner whistle — in fact I have two of them and can still play the melody. Notice that wieners that time were only 49 cents
Free Brothers was a great place to shop My cousin Bobbie Sue Robertson was the cashier there.
That was the year I sold the most Girl Scout Cookies in all Coronado.