Blog Comment: CUM FIESTA was a company town, everything was owned wholly or in part by the cannery. With the meager wages, you had no choice except to charge things and they had you because you had to work for them to repay the charges. Mom worried all the time and I sensed it and saw that she began to look slightly older than her 45 years, I wanted to help out. When I turned eighteen, I took a job at the cannery on the production line. Mom was not pleased, but the money helped, so she let it go. "I had bigger plans for you baby," she would tell me and hug me.
