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My mother learned to drive in 1923 in North Carolina. She was 14 and she learned on a Model T. The Model T had a different transmission from...
I was born in November of 1937.
Photo at two and a half weeks
For the first three weeks, we did not travel at all. Relatives that were close...
June of 1938 my parents got a telegram that my dad's father had died on June 5th in Colorado. They were already planning a visit. But they didn't...
In the summer of 1939 my parents took me to Woods Hole
They sat me cross legged in my dad's bicycle basket.
We spent some time at the beach, and...
Between the end of World War II and our trip west in 1948 we went on several trips but I am not absolutely positive about the sequence of the...
Most of my dad's slides from this period of time - before our 1948 trip to Colorado - were taken in Woods Hole. But there are a few of Mom with...
We spent a lot of the time at the beach, and my dad liked taking photos of people at the beach. There were two main beaches - Nobska beach which...
Since we were in Woods Hole almost every summer, it is sometimes hard to tell exactly when those photos were taken. In this case, if my hair is...
During World War II, gas and tires were rationed and the factories were producing tanks and vehicles for the troops. We had a black 1940 Ford two...
Road in SD
One of our entertainments was reading the Burma Shave signs. We also visited Wall SD - we wanted to see Wall Drug Store. Wall...
After we crossed the South Dakota border, we were in Wyoming.
Buffalo Bill statue in Cody WY
"Buffalo Bill -- the Scout," a bronze sculpture...
Then Uncle Leonard took us to the Union Pacific rail-yards.
Union Pacific railyard
Uncle Leonard with us
My sister and me - railroad...
After we left Uncle Leonard's, I am not absolutely sure of the sequence of events.
We went to Rocky Mountain National Park
Chipmunk lured out...
My dad with his mom, me, my sister and my mom
My sister and I wore dresses most of the time. Usually made by my mother. She would make one for...
My father was born December 1904 in a ghost silver mining town called Silver Cliff. Silver Cliff is in the Wet Mountain Valley between the Wet...
Miss Kettle's house in Westcliffe
Miss Kettle (one of my father's school teachers) had a house in Westcliffe.
We went up Round Mountain, a small...
We did one additional trip in Colorado before we started for home. We drove over to the other side of the Rockies to the Uncompahgre Plateau...
The Indians that we saw at Garden of the Gods were not "from" there - that is from what I remember they were not local indians - those indians...