For the Nance County Journal Editor’s note: Mr. Backlund wanted to share some memories of growing up in California in the 1959.
I remember the first time I saw Huntington Beach. It was December of 1959. My father was 50 and I was only 11 years old. It was a beautiful day in Long Beach. I’m wearing a white T-shirt, blue jeans, Jack Purcell tennis shoes and I have a butch haircut. Driving from our ho…