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Howard Street Days
Howard Street Days
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“Howard Street Days” is the first book in Wesley Gurion’s “Boyhood Trilogy.” Written between 1994 and 2009, this project encompasses three books, which together recall the author’s boyhood in the 1960s.
“Howard Street Days” follows the adventures of ten year old Wesley, his younger brother Danny, and Wesley’s best friend, Craig. Howard Street is a quiet residential neighborhood in mid-sixties Los Angeles. Can three adventurous boys find enough things to do with empty lots, a railroad track, and a land development which will one day become LA’s exclusive Marina del Rey? In between stories based on true events, Wesley Gurion recalls the everyday details of the times in mini-essays: the movies and TV shows, the candies and breakfast cereals, playing “war” with the neighborhood boys, and all of the other incidents that make up a boyhood. Written with great warmth and humor “Howard Street Days” shines as a nostalgic look at a vanished time.
If you like this book be sure to follow up with the other two:
“The Projects.” The second book in the Trilogy follows Wesley and Danny’s move to a Los Angeles lower income housing project. It’s there that they meet the incredible Kennedy Hunter, an older boy with infinite ideas about how to live a creative and fun life. Kennedy and Wesley embark on a partnership to create superhero comics, while in the background the sights and sounds of the turbulent late-sixties rage. Illustrated with original drawings from the massive Kennedy/Wesley archives!
Bolinas. In the final book in the Trilogy, Wesley leaves Los Angeles to live with his father Bernie in the small Northern California town of Bolinas. His father is a counter-culture guru and the small town is a combination of hippies and red necks. As Wesley comes into his young manhood he must face a life changed beyond anything he has known before.
“Howard Street Days” follows the adventures of ten year old Wesley, his younger brother Danny, and Wesley’s best friend, Craig. Howard Street is a quiet residential neighborhood in mid-sixties Los Angeles. Can three adventurous boys find enough things to do with empty lots, a railroad track, and a land development which will one day become LA’s exclusive Marina del Rey? In between stories based on true events, Wesley Gurion recalls the everyday details of the times in mini-essays: the movies and TV shows, the candies and breakfast cereals, playing “war” with the neighborhood boys, and all of the other incidents that make up a boyhood. Written with great warmth and humor “Howard Street Days” shines as a nostalgic look at a vanished time.
If you like this book be sure to follow up with the other two:
“The Projects.” The second book in the Trilogy follows Wesley and Danny’s move to a Los Angeles lower income housing project. It’s there that they meet the incredible Kennedy Hunter, an older boy with infinite ideas about how to live a creative and fun life. Kennedy and Wesley embark on a partnership to create superhero comics, while in the background the sights and sounds of the turbulent late-sixties rage. Illustrated with original drawings from the massive Kennedy/Wesley archives!
Bolinas. In the final book in the Trilogy, Wesley leaves Los Angeles to live with his father Bernie in the small Northern California town of Bolinas. His father is a counter-culture guru and the small town is a combination of hippies and red necks. As Wesley comes into his young manhood he must face a life changed beyond anything he has known before.
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