You Know You're from San Lorenzo If...

• You were a Don or a Rebel.
• You lived on a Via, and ate your first steak dinner at “The Embers.”
• You bought your first bra at Mervyn's.
• You saw Williams Dairy, Peter Wheat Bread or Jewel Tea Trucks drive down your street.
• You had a "Purple Cow" at Hap's, or went to Lois' Freezer Fresh for a frostie.
• You collected tadpoles in the San Lorenzo Creek, and believed you could get polio if you swam in it.
• You ate at Pland's Banquet Room on Hesperian directly across from the Lorenzo Theatre.
• You remember it was “Airport Park" before it was "Kennedy Park.”
• Your birthday cakes were bought at Van's Bakery.
• You knew "Irv" at Grutman's.
• You went with your dad down to the Homes Association to take care of some problem with your house. 
• You heard the noon siren go off and wondered if the Russian's were attacking.
• You shared the same floor plan as your neighbors, so when you visited friends, it was your house, only opposite.
• You remember Max's Produce at Four Corners.
• You had a Black and White Sundae at the fountain of Mayfair Market or People's Drugs.
• Your baseball team was sponsored by Lou Jack Trucking, Shamrock Realty or Neal's Carpet.
• You remember "Mr. Bee's" coffee shop at the corner of Hacienda and Hesperian.
• You shopped at Louis, Hagstrom, Mayfair, PX, or Lee Brothers markets.
• You remember the little merry-go-round, train and boat rides at the corner of Paseo Grande and Hesperian.
• You remember the midget race track behind Kennedy Park.
• You remember that Ned Culver was the manager of the Lorenzo Theatre, and stopped the Saturday matinees to tell kids to be quiet.
• You bought your "mags" at Foxworthy's or Don Hubbard Auto Parts.
• You bought school supplies at Kellogg's Variety Store, right next to Amerio Drugs on Hesperian.
• You had your TV tubes tested at the tube tester machine at People's Drugs.
• You watched Santa land in a helicopter at the Mervyn's parking lot every Christmas.
• You remember Turner's Sporting Goods, Larsen's Barber Shop and San Lorenzo Music.
• You remember The Huddle cafe, Mohawk Gas Station and Oliviera Shell by San Lorenzo High.
• You pulled into A&W Root Beer on Via Granada and Hesperian right after school.
• You sat on the "sun roof" at Bo-Bo's hamburgers at Four Corners.
• You shopped at GEMCO and ate at Prings.
• You walked in the Little League Parade from Mervyn's to the the Little League Park.

It has been said that our memories are a way of holding onto the things we love, the things we are, the things we never want to lose. The Class of 1968 has shown that although you can take them out of San Lorenzo, you can never take San Lorenzo out them.

Dennis Caracciolo contributed to this story.