Terrence Gallagher

There's always a typo. Skip was 13 years older than I, not 17.

I don't know who is left to remember. I knew T.T. as "Skip" back in the 1960's. He was a young man seemingly out of place in Santa Maria, from somewhere back East, running at a faster pace than the rest of us. He was, among other things, a great skater- had his own roller skates. We used to go to the roller rink in Pismo, also to the Rose Garden Ballroom and the Peppermint Twist, where he danced up a storm and hustled the girls. He was many years older than I (17 as it turns out), so he...