Early Years
Harold Gonsalves was born in Alameda, California, on January 28, 1926. He attended school at Alameda and after two and one half years of high school, quit to take a job as a stock clerk with Montgomery Ward in Oakland. In high school he had taken part in football, baseball, track, and swimming, and sang tenor in the school glee club.
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