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The Indiana toll road was the first one with a posted minimum speed. The minimum never went higher than 40 mph across the country and no one ever called us on it. With out speedometer reading high however we speed up whenever we see a cop. That's a switch. Stockyards We tootled into Chicago on...

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 get out there in time for the funeral. Published in the Wet Mountain Tribune June 1938 "Death Calls John Figge - Pioneer Silver Cliff Resident"...

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 what you see today. Part of shifting gears was done with your feet. Mother She was taught by her uncles - her mother's younger brothers Willard and...