Sam Gnerre

Trinity Audioplayer ready... Sonny Bono’s tumultuous life began in Detroit on Feb. 16, 1935. His father, Santo Bono, had immigrated to the U.S. from Montelepre, Sicily. His mother, Jean, was a second-generation Italian forced by her parents to marry at 14... See more

Trinity Audioplayer ready... Attempts to annex the unincorporated Del Aire area, located roughly between Hawthorne and El Segundo, began soon after houses started going up in the region in the late 1930s. First, some geography: The Del Aire area as curren... See more

Trinity Audioplayer ready... When Vincent Thomas was 16, he used his boxing skills – he earned $2.50 per fight – to help support his family. His parents, Visko and Vinca Tomas (shortened from Tomasevich), arrived from Yugoslavia in 1903. They were living ... See more

Trinity Audioplayer ready... Anna Lee Fisher decided that she wanted to be an astronaut on May 5, 1961. On that day, Alan Shepard became the first American to reach space during a 15-minute flight that took him 116 miles above the Earth before his capsule... See more

Trinity Audioplayer ready... Larry Walters told the San Pedro News Pilot that he got the idea for his July 2, 1982, flight after seeing some military weather balloons for sale in an Army-Navy surplus store when he was 13. He no doubt wasn’t the first pers... See more