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Wilfred Charlie I was raised in Wickenburg because my dad worked for the railroad. I lived with my mom and dad, three sisters and my older brother. I was the youngest of the bunch. During the summer, I lived with my grandparents, Paul Stepp Shaw and Sadie Juan Shaw, in their house at Camelback and Extension. It was a little sandwich house and it was so nice and cool in the summer. It had a kitchen, dining room and family room, which is where the three of us would sleep. It was back in the day so we had to haul water in big metal milk cans from Indian School and Extension. There was a wood stove and there was an outhouse. I had cousins that lived nearby and we walked everywhere and swam in the ditches. We’d walk all the way to Ever Green and spend the whole day there On weekends, my parents would visit and then float down the canal and get and the whole family would go to the out at Extension to go Verde or Salt rivers and back to the house. have picnics. “I had cousins that We were barefoot. On Sundays, my lived nearby and we Nothing was paved so grandpa would take me we’d carry cardboard walked everywhere and my cousins around and run as fast as we the community in his a n d s w a m i n t h e could, then throw the truck and we would pick ditches.” cardboard down and up bottles and go into dance around on it until Mesa and turn them in our feet had feeling again and then we for money so we could get candy or ice pick it up and go again. cream. 8
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