Fauntleroy Boys

About the Book

This book is a collection of short clips about the lives and adventures of a group of teenage boys in the fifties from a neighborhood in Seattle called "Fauntleroy".

We owned "junkers" that became "hot rods" when we dropped V-8´s into them to make them fast. We put a torch to the coil springs to lower our cars and installed "Smitty" mufflers to make them loud. Friday nights we cruised the "Ave" and ate hamburgers and drank Cokes at "Zestos" and "Penny´s Dog House". We dragged across downtown intersections on Saturday nights and went to the drags on Sunday.

We had part-time jobs as box boys, pin boys, and pumped gas. We made $1.25 per hour and took home $25.00 a week. We paid .18 cents a gallon for gasoline, .10 cents for a Coke and .75 cents for a theater ticket. We had cars, money and our own style of clothes and music.

About the Author

John got back into building hot rods in 1992 and joined a local car club that participates in car shows and Friday night cruises. John and his wife Mary Lou live in a town made famous by "Bugs Bunny" Walla Walla.