February 9, 2006

StreetTalk

by Carol Rosen

What is your fondest memory of Valentine’s Day?
(Asked at Almaden’s Via Valiente Plaza)


“I guess it would be the year my husband and I got engaged. We got engaged in December and the following Valentine’s Day was very special.”

Daryl Canham, 50-plus
Almaden
Nurse educator


“I suppose it was the year we got married, 1964, when my husband took me to West Virginia for a rock-climbing trip. ”

Carol Thompson, 63
Almaden
Retired


“It was the year we moved back to California. We bought a house in Almaden and we closed on it on Feb. 14, 1997. We’re from here and we’d been living in Virginia [because of his job] and we didn’t think we could get a home here.”

Linda Klajbor, 45
Almaden
Homemaker


“Sitting and having a tub of Ben and Jerry’s Cherry Garcia with my boyfriend. It was the first time he’d tried it, he thought he preferred Fish Food, but once he’d tried it his favorite became Cherry Garcia.”

Erin O’Day, 26
Almaden
Barista


“We used to give out See’s lollypops when I was in high school.”

Karla Wilkinson, 41
Almaden
Property manager


“When I was a kid in elementary school, giving out those little Valentine’s Day cards.”

Damien Pantiga, 40
Almaden
Takes care of aunt


“When my husband planned dinner out for just the two of us together.”

Grace Blankenship, 64 (NO PHOTO)
Almaden
Retired


“My first grandson was born the day before Valentine’s Day. My children were all girls, so this was a real joy.”

Shirley Buonocore, 69
Almaden
Homemaker


“I have four girls. I remember baking cakes and cookies with the girls and waiting to see what my husband got me.”

Lucille Colon, 62
Phoenix, Ariz.
Owner, manager mobile home park, raising great grandchild