Condition: Good. Packed in a RIGID mailer with cardboard backing and padding. (See Photos)! Pages: not written on, clean, bright, odor free. Cover: clean, bright, curl to front right edge. Ships from California. Ships same or next day (weekdays and Saturdays)! ABOUT THIS: Louise Henriques Mann has lived in Palo Alto and Menlo Park for 94 years, the fifth of nine children born to Julia and Jacob Levin, Russian immigrants to America and the first Jewish family in Palo Alto, California. 

Determined not to let her memories of her childhood evaporate, this book was originally intended for Louise's Mishpucah, her extended family. As such, it is a warm and loving memoir of her family, right down to her mother's best-loved recipes. But it is also much more than a family history. 

Because the family grew up alongside Palo Alto itself, readers will also find here some fascinating snapshots of the evolution of the community and its business and cultural life-- like the growth of the horse-and-wagon family junkyard into Levin Metals Corporation (when it was sold it was the largest scrap metal business on the West Coast) or the family's central role in the creation of the first synagogue in the mid-Peninsula. 

Louise's parents came to Palo Alto nearly one hundred years ago in search of a better life. This is the story of how they found it, told by one of our liveliest senior citizens.