My parents were WWII refugees from Croatia who spent four years in a refugee camp in Egypt before coming to America and settling down in Pacoima, California where they bought a motel on San Fernando Road. My book, So, Like Due… What it Was Like Growing up in the San Fernando Valley in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s, has several threads running through it with the most prominent one being growing up in an immigrant family and having one foot in American culture and another in the “Old World”. The book is written in the snarky voice of a “hippie dude” who is trying to figure out what the hell happened to him and begins with his recollection of the Pacoima Junior High School airplane crash made famous in the movie “La Bamba”.