[hedgetrimmer]

My relatives used to take us to Calico when we were bored with the other entertainments of Barstow and Hinckley.

My mother used to make us walk very quietly on the board sidewalk past a house with lace curtains. She told us the school marm from when Calico was still a mining town lived there. She was very old, and my mother didn't want a bunch of noisy kids ruining her repose. I always tried to surreptitiously peer through the window as we walked by, but I never saw her.

[TruthWillWin]

Entertainments of Barstow and Hinkley?? I grew up in Barstow and probably knew some of your relatives. My first paying job when I was still in high school was at Calico where I was a guide for the haunted house. At that time (1963) Calico had been taken over by Knotts Berry Farm. I can remember Calico before the Knotts takeover.