Cradled by Harry Oliver, the diapered 1-year-old Todd Willis looked up, to where the famous writer and publisher pointed, at the leaky roof of the old boxcar schoolhouse. The picture of the old-timer desert rat and the youngest resident of Thousand Palms was published in the Press-Enterprise newspaper with an associated article written by baby Todd’s mother, Ardis Kay Willis, in 1955.
The boxcar schoolhouse had been in the news before. “The fascinating tale of the box car school is one which was widely publicized at its time, but which is now unknown to anyone but old timers even in this community. Probably not one of the school children of today knows the historic significance….
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