Watts Riots Remembered. In 1965, as Watts erupted in violent unrest, Tony Welton and his teenage friends walked by a market on Avalon Boulevard and Imperial Highway. They cursed it for the way it sold spoiled meat and rotten fruit to customers without the money or means to shop elsewhere.
Wilver Dornell Willie Stargell (March 6, 1940 â April 9, 2001), nicknamed Pops in the later years of his career, was an American professional baseball player.targell made his major league debut at the end of the 1962 season at the age of 22. His 1963 rookie season was lacklustre, but he enjoyed much more success the following season, his first as an everyday player.
Born Lecil Martin in Sterrett, Texas, in 1931, BoxCar Willie was the son of a railroad man who used to play his fiddle on the porch while his son played guitar. By his teens he was performing in jamborees all over the state, but he gave up show business to enlist in the Air Force, where he spent 22 years.