720 Kirkwood, San Francisco

Our "project home" as they were called in the early 1950's was more like a condo or townhome today.  I remember it had an upstairs.  I think our bedrooms were upstairs.  I remember we had a big lawn out front and the City Bus stopped on the corner.  Mind you...that city bus was one of those old time rounded buses.  I remember riding the bus to school once in awhile.  I don't remember how far my kindergarten school was...but once in a while I did ride the bus.  My mom did not have a drivers license when we lived in SF.  In fact...she didn't get one for some time after moving to Novato.  Dad just did all the driving.  Including driving mom to work at the hospital.  I don't know what hospital she worked at...but I especially remember all of us in our car taking mom to work and then going to a playground in SF.  Dad searched out and FOUND every little playground in the city.  Each weekend it was a different playground.  And to think...he did that without the Internet or a GPS!!!  Mom always looked really nice when she went to work.  Back then nurses wore their nursing caps and all white dresses.  White hose and white shoes.  She even had a special black cape that she only wore to work.  I remember mom starching her cap.  She would put it in a sink of starchy water and then place it on the front of the refrigerator.  That was the only flat space big enough for her cap to dry.  When she pealed it off...it was stiff as a board.  She would carefully fold it and then pin it on her head very proudly.  I had dreams of one day wearing a nurses cap....