Selected Tales from the Waste family travels for Bechtel Corporation

Southern California Coast

1953-1957

Living in Malibu and Newport Beach

Beginning around 1952, my Dad's job with Bechtel began to require long-term travel. The first place my family moved was up to Vancouver, B. C. in Canada. Then just before I was born they moved again - this time to the coast of sunny Southern California, first to Malibu then to the Lido Isle neighborhood of Newport Beach.

 

 My Dad and Mom with me and Steve in a wagon
   That's me and my older brother Steve.

 

There's my family in our speedboat when we lived at Lido Isle, near Newport Beach. I'm the three-year-old kid on the left.

 

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