Corralitos...Late 1950s. 
In those days, the Valley was much less populated. Maybe thirteen or fourteen houses on Blake rd. There was no garbage pick up, but milk was delivered daily. The milk man wore a tie and dressed in a white uniform. And by the late fifties it was popular to order the Humpty Dumpty  Diaper service for young mothers. They came down Blake road in a tune playing truck with a picture of Humpty on the side. I remember it being very cold, even icey  in winter .  And in summer,  lazy and warm. Bee's buzzing away in the nearby orchards.
Which brings to mind another post war  incarnation, the crop duster. Liberally  dumping God knows what on the nearby feilds.  Diving and dipping  and roaring along  the tree tops.  It was a very good time to grow up in Corralitos.

The house at One Blake road.

It was early in the 1950's when my father Bob Briley came and rented the house . It was originally a wartime storage building,  bought off the docks in the Bay Area. Converted to post war houseing , it sat back off the lane at Blake and Alderidge. He worked at the Southern Pacific Railroad out of Watsonville. He got himself transferred here when he and mother suffered the loss of their first child in San Fancisco. Dr. told him, get her pregnant and move her well out of the city. Corralitos was far from their heart break. and breathtakingly beautiful.