Moving to Alamo

We drove around our senior year looking for a place to practice. We finally decided on Alamo, California. It was in the beautiful Diablo Valley. It was filled with beautiful homes and walnut trees. Danville Blvd was the only road that went from Walnut Creek to San Jose. There were only 1000 people in Alamo. we found a home that we loved. it was up La Bonita from Danville Blvd. It was in a new housing area of Alamo. They were custom homes on 1/2 acre lots. Ours was at 155 Via Bonita. It was four bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths with a covered patio between the living room and the master bedroom. It had two fireplaces, lots of walnut and pear trees, but no landscaping. We fell in love with it and the neighborhood. It cost $40,000. We took Kaye's retirement money out of her teaching account and my first paycheck for teaching at the Dental school, and a second mortgage from the builder, Len Bolgen, for a down payment.

I decided to go to Fremont, about 20 miles from Alamo, to set up practice in Dr. Hugh Block's offices and to teach at the P & S Dental School in San Francisco two days a week. Kaye and the girls were so excited to move into that beautiful new house from city housing. As time went on, Marge who worked at a nice furniture store as a decorator in Oakland, helped us buy beautiful new furniture for our home.  Kaye and I landscaped the house, built a cement patio in the back yard, put in fences and built a great bench around an oak tree on the patio. It was a lot of work but it turned out great. We loved our neighbors, the Bolgins, the Simmons, the Petraukases, the Brownells, the Bergs, the Longneckers, the Kubris'. The first year Kaye taught elementary school in Danville, the next town to the south of Alamo.