Catalina Island Man - Who Am I?

My parents (Orval Liddell and Betty Sims) were married in 1945, but had to wait until the war was over before they were allowed to come to the Island as "tourists" were not permitted on the Island as it had been taken over by the military, primarily the "Maritime", starting the day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and staying until the war was officially over.

My parents had hoped to move to Catalina to "retire", but when P. K. (Philip Knight) Wrigley found out that my father was a 1923 graduate of Cal Tech in Civil and Mechanical Engineering, he made my father an "offer" that he couldn't refuse and so Dad became Mr. Wrigley's "Chief Engineer" for the next 15 years.