Slag, I lived in Fresno in the 1970s, and often had work to do in Earlimart, Pixley, and Delano. You brought back memories.
Was it Pixley that has the old-fashioned A&W drive-in off Highway 99? It reminded me of the drive-in near the house where I grew up in Wisconsin.

I thought we were poor when I was growing up in the Village of Wind Point, north of Racine, Wisconsin - mostly because there were five kids in our family. We were Catholic, so we had halibut steak on Fridays - one piece split among the seven of us. And on the rare occasions when we had beefsteak, we'd split one steak among the seven of us. We didn't realize that Wind Point was a rather exclusive suburb, and that my dad earned a salary well above what people in the city earned. Still, it didn't seem like any of the kids in the neighborhood we wallowing in materialism. We cut grass and delivered papers and did babysitting to earn money. Teenage kids didn't own cars or expensive electronic equipment. My youngest sister was born in 1957, nine years after me. Her life seemed to be much more affluent than mine.

-Joe-