Bill and Bob, Where Did You Come From (LaFond, Gehring, Imes ...

The gas business was supplimented by selling mussels
for fish bait. I would go to Mexico every second or
thi.rd niQht after closinq the station and brinQ back 2 or
3 sacks of mussels. Ed MacGregor would usually go with
Eugene getting mussels in Mexico, 1933
me and we would split the profit, if any. Initially,
we would go to a rocky headland about 2 miles south of
Rosarita Beach, sleep on the cliffs, then in the night
when the tide was low, go down on the rocks with a
flasnlight and scrape off the large mussels with a sharpened
automobile spri nq leaf. Later we found a closer
l\.1ussel covered island north of Rosarita, Mexico
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