Jan 2, 1916

 Jan 2, 1916

A grocery store in Hollywood in 1919 looked like this.

Are still in Hollywood. I worked at Meilings for 3 weeks in the grocery dept. at $10 per week from 9 till 9 and 11 on Saturday and all day Sunday so I quit. Aunt Ethel has been trying to get a job but has not succeeded so far.

The deal about the sale of our house is off now and it is rented for $30 a month.

Mother has been very weak since her last sickness and we are in a very unsettled condition here now - Grandpa wants to go back to the ranch and we all can't live down there so we don't know what to do. Mother sick again now - very bad attack of piles for nearly 2 weeks. 

Here's what your average Christmas tree looked like in 1915

On Christmas we 5 had big turkey dinner (Mother was in bed and Floyd a little on the blink though). Pa says that he can't possibly come out until next Spring, but we are going to telegraph for him and say that Mother is sick.

Pa arrived Sun. Jan. 2. Mother alright now, but didn't feel able to drive way to the station so she and I stayed here and Ethel, Floyd and Grandpa went down and met him. We talked in the evening and to bed.

Rainy season on now - rained all day, but clear in eve when Pa came. It snowed here for a full half hour last Thursday. Lots of snow in the mountains near by and the school kids all ran up to see it.

The freak snow storm in Los Angeles in Dec. 1915

Author note: My grandfather's work hours looked really long so I thought I would look up when our current 5 day/ 40 hr work week became the norm. Based on Wikipedia  it was not until 1940, when a provision of the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act mandating a maximum 40-hour workweek went into effect, that the two-day weekend was adopted nationwide. Ford and other companies and labor unions had instituted this earlier.