Posted by Fred Laurice on 28 NOV 2005 16:27:58
In the 1950s, while living in Los Altos, our family knew an Italian family living near Cupertino who had a cherry ranch.Their home had a large basemenr which you could enter directly down a stairway from the yard.In the basement a full kitchen and a very large dining table.On warm summer days, I'm sure the family spent a lot of time in that basement, and during the pruning and harvest seaso ns, it was served as a "mess hall" for the ranch workers.