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6B Wednesday, Jan. 12,2011
Bulletin, Progressive, Record, Reporter
The West family entered the 1963 fair parade to tell their story in Plumas County. Red drove as
Mildred West (seated beside him) looked back down the line at their children, from front:
Susie West Jenkins, Theresa West Kirk, Ricky West, Dolly West Groves, Nancy West Blesse and,
bringing up the rear, Timmy West.
Red West was a DIY'er before it was trendy: In the 1940s that's the way things got done. In this
picture, West is at work digging out a basement for the house all the children were born and
raised in. Tim West said his dad would yell "BLOW" and his mom would grab the kids and Pun
out of the house. Red would ignite one stick of dynamite -- he bought it at the local hardware
store -- then dig out the loose dirt. Red West's granddaughter Kelsey lives in the old house,
complete with basement. Susie and Theresa West are seated in the car as Red shovels dirt into
the old car.
WEST, from page1B We got to talking about the salesman before "semi-
"old days in Quincy." Westretiring." He keeps his hand
worked early mornings at in with a few valued clients.
rival Blue Chip stamps, com- Perotti's Bakery, where I'd He said his wife,
plete with chipmunk mascot, spend my lunch money on Shawndra, who works for the
West took me on a tour of doughnuts on the way to Quincy Cemetery District, is
the garage and the house: he school, responsible for all he has.
has old gas pumps from his West graduated from The ranch is smaller now,
dad's service station, a soda Quincy High seven or eightbut West still runs a few head
machine, clocks and all kinds years after me and we played of cattle and maintains his
of Richfield memorabilia in "Do you know?" living history museum of
mint condition. We shared our memories of earlier times in Plumas
There's a barber's pole on Quincy when there were County. Above all else, he is
the porch and a wooden cow- more mills and fewer people, proud of his morn and dad
boy. In the house is a primo We talked about the old high and the family they raised.
blue and gold Donald Duck school building and lamented I went away thinking what
bicycle, complete with its demise, a great life and how lucky I
streamers, as well as other West worked for years as am to get to know a little bit
artifacts of bygone times, an over-the-counter drug more about where I live.
old
Tim and Shawndra West's house overlooks the old
Elizabethtown dump, which is the source of many of the
artifacts scattered around the property. Photos by Mona Hill
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