/The Jewish youth groups: one for boys AZA the other is girls group,BBG

“It is the mission of AZA and BBG to create a United Jewish community that grows because they celebrate Judaism’s differences.The brotherhood and sisterhood provide a place for teens to build a movement capable of creating change surrounding today’s critical issues all while learning important skills such as public speaking,event planning,and project management.Chapters in a larger area are grouped into regions.Regions serve to bring chapters together so that they can exchange ideas,socialize,Enjoy social, athletic,community service and Judaic programming.”Back in my day, our chapter President would go to these convention and promote our local chapter, in order to get to go,to more  socials, to meet girls, he would promise to get at least  20 guys to show up.We went to places,Westchester, Brentwood, Beverly Hills to socialize with girls.At these socials we would ask these girls for their phone numbers. We would have these socials Friday and Saturday nights.After awhile we have a lot of phone numbers of the girls ,but would not have any days to ask them out. So the President would open up night without no socials.Friday night would be free night or could be a Saturday night.We all learned about dating girls and how to treat a girl.The Rabbi (teacher)who would get mad at our chapter for having more social activities then anything else. We would not have any cultural activities, religious activities. We were the most popular boys group in Southern California. We were from Torrance.

This is how I am celebrating Veterans day

VIETNAM WAR MEMORIAL ,CLOSE TO THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL 

TOMB OF THE UNKNOWN  SOLDIER ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY 

PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY GRAVE SITE IN ARLINGTON  NATIONAL CEMETERY. JACKLINE KENNEDY BURIED IN THE SITE,WITH HIM

ROBERT F. KENNEDY IS BURIED NEAR HIS BROTHER
ARLINGTON NATIONAL  CEMETERY  FROM THE KENNEDY MEMORIAL 

Definition of bar mitzvah:a ceremony and celebration for a Jewish boy at the age of 13 when he takes on the religious duties and responsibilities of an adult.Here is my Bar Mitzvah.

My Dad with my grandmother(his mother)

Band leader

My Mom with my older sisters

Challah Bread- special bread made for special occasions only

place settings for the celebration 

Challah bread

My Bar Mitzvah cake

Uncle and Aunt

Uncle and Aunt

My Grandfather (My mother’s father)

My mom

Me at 13 years old in 1964

When I was I went to Jewish Resort,named Highland Springs.In 1948 the Rosen brothers bought the ranch and developed it in a Catskills of the West for Jewish families.Families would come year after year and enjoy music entertainment,dancing,horseback riding,swimming,tennis,and a variety of outdoor activities.The people who run the resort today frequently meet visitors who recall cherished memories of childhood summers spent exploring all the hidden treasures of Highland Springs Resort, I am one of them. Highland Springs Resort is located between two cities Beaumont and

Pool area

 Banning going towards Palm Springs in Cherry Valley.

HORSEBACKRIDING

SUMMER CAMP AND YEAR ROUND CAMPING PROGRAMS

SKATE BOARDING

CAMPING

ARCHERY

I was just in my Doctors office ,sitting in the room,waiting to get my flu shot when I started thinking about the first time,I got a shot from a doctor,for an illness I had when I was young boy. I had a doctor, that always gave us(me and my older sisters) a shot for any illness we had. My dad claimed that he carry around a syringe, all the time.Before we get to the doctor office we would feel better,afraid of getting shot,stick that needle in us.Later I had experience with a dentist going in for route canel.The doctor gave me a shot of novacain and mixed the spot and numbed one side of my face. He said he was sorry for doing that,so was I.  I never saw that dentist again.Then I was going to get married. You have to get blood test.Since,Nevada and Mexico you do not need a blood test to get married I suggested  to elope and get married in Las Vegas,Nevada that did not work. When I turned 51 years old. I found out I had high blood pressure.Every 3 months you have to get checked out and take blood out of you.The nurses who gave the shots and took blood from me did a better job of sticking the needle in me.Another time, I had to go into the hospital,because my kidneys had fail. The doctors had to take blood from me and then hook me up to dialysis machine,with more needles, in the arm.After two days on the machine things got better for me,thank God. I have gotten over the fear of getting  a shot or someone poking a needle, in my arm, in order  of taking blood from me is over.

My father passed away in 1994 at 75. My mom passed away in 2011 at 90

I met Andy Lococo, when I was very young,at the Cockatoo Inn.My Dad was a self -employed C.P.A-Certified Public accountant .My dad and mother took me out to lunch ,to eat at Cockatoo Inn. So we walked in to bar area ,where they had great lunch specials,near the bar area there was man standing like a bouncer by staircase ,going up to some rooms.then my Dad called him over to our table where my Dad introduced me to Owner Andy Lococo and I shook his hand,that was that.After we got outside in the car ,my Dad told me more about him. My dad knew a mob figure. Of coarse, I  did not know ,what to think. Andy Lococo did not seem to me like a bad guy,just like in those mafia movies or figures,they are like that today. I did not think much about it till I heard and read in newspaper ,that he was going to put in jail for bribery charge and fixing a horse race. I did not know that John F.Kennedy and Robert Kennedy stayed at the Cockatoo Inn. 

Many people stayed at the Cockatoo Inn. In the late 1960 and early 1970’s the hotel was popular among underworld figures.The hotel hosted U.S President,A- list movie stars and entertainers,the Mafia.

I had belong to the Cub Scouts.Back in the day Los Angeles School District, encouraged  young boys to get involved in these activities ,to stay out of trouble. In the schools they had chain length fences around  the schools, to keep the bad kids outs. The reform school kids out,even though I never saw one. That was Century Park Elementary  and Henry Clay junior high school. I think they looked at too many Bowery Boys movies or East Side kids very popular movies ,of the time.Those movies were about reform school kids getting into trouble.The Cub Scouts earn awards with requirements that build self-responsibilty,confidence,and willingness to help others.Cub Scouts go fishing,build rockets.There’s the pinnacle of most Cub Scouts years the Pinewood Derby. You get a piece of pine and make a race car out of it,then you add wheels to it,then you go to the derby and race them. I did not go to the derby,I had trouble making the car,I learned at a early age I was  not going be a craftsman. Then we had fundraisers.We were to sell fudge and fruitcake in cans. We had to get the same amount of fudge and fruitcake. I went door to door. I sold a lot of fudge but I could not sell any fruitcakes. I could not even give them away. I tried to sell them 2 for 1 sale.I could not sell them.So,later on in the evening,I came  back and threw the fruitcakes,on the porches,no charge,I could not even give them to a dog,they would not eat the  fruitcakes. I just got money out of my piggie bank to pay from them.Even though I had my problems in the Cub Scouts I enjoyed my experiences with them.

Tommy Davis