FOUNTAIN VALLEY – All those years, no one knew about April 1942.
Elias Coloma, now 90, was just the wicker basket guy at the Orange County Swap Meet.
“He was funny, always joking around,” says Shirley Heinle, a swap-meet vender since 1983. “But we didn't know that about him.”
Over the decades Coloma's wicker business expanded from retail to wholesale. Still, no one knew about April 1942.
“He'd give my kids lollipops and give me tips about (buying) baskets,” says Sylvia Munoz, who supplied her business at Coloma's warehouse.
“But he never talked about that.”
Even Coloma's own family knew little about April 1942.
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