Ed Littlefield (called during childhood by his middle name, Wattis) rides a tricycle on Eccles Avenue with his cousin, Barbara Kimball. Courtesy of the Edmund W. and Jeannik Littlefield Foundation "Eccles Avenue was a wonderful area for a youngster to grow up," Littlefield continued. "In the middle of Eccles Avenue was an oval park, big enough for kids our age to play baseball, football, tag, or hide-and-seek. One of my best friends at the time, Matt Browning, [Jr.] lived right across the street. "My cousins, Barbara and Bill Kimball, lived just in back on Van Buren, as did the Dumke children. Across the street from us were Larry and Janet Dee, who were very good friends of my mother. Their son, Tom, was a very good friend of Bill Kimball." Both Larry Dee and Tom Dee served as directors of the Utah Construction Company. "My mother married Emil Otto Joseph Hanke when I was seven years old. My stepfather convinced my mother that I should go away to boarding school. He believed that a better education would get me into some of the better Ivy League colleges in the East. "I went away to the Tamalpais School for Boys in San Rafael, [nearl San Francisco, from 1926 until 1930. Since I lived in Ogden and traveled by train, I was usually dependent on other students inviting me to their homes [for weekends], but occasionally my grandfather would invite me to be with him in San Francisco. "We always shared a modest room at the St. Francis Hotel and ate breakfast at Herbert's Bachelor Grill. Never in my life did Grandfather order anything but bacon, eggs, and hash brown potatoes. But he still studied that menu very carefully. After breakfast we spent the day downtown in his office, and we devoted the late afternoon to catching a movie. I was very fond of my grandfather."