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Then Uncle Leonard took us to the Union Pacific rail-yards. Union Pacific railyard Uncle Leonard with us My sister and me - railroad engineers My sister and me My sister waving from the train engine Next he took us to Cheyenne. Daddy could take a photo of the capital, Capital of...

After we crossed the South Dakota border, we were in Wyoming. Buffalo Bill statue in Cody WY "Buffalo Bill -- the Scout," a bronze sculpture of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody as a western scout at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming. The statue was created in 1924 to...

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 advertised all along the road. They advertised ice water and ice cream. My mother had a thing about milkshakes which were relatively new at that time...

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 door sedan. My mother loading the 1940 Ford with lead cages for an experiment in 1946 We lived in a little house in Roland Park Maryland. Our...

The two older girls and I took the train up to New York City where the Intrepid was docking for Armed Forces Day.. Before he got there, I tried out for and made it onto the old Jeopardy program with Art Fleming. When the carrier arrived, we watched as it came around the corner of the cruise...

My mom did not like to fly. She drove or took a train or a ship for all the trips she made - with two exceptions. She flew for the first time when my Dad was going to Florida and one of his students (Joe) and Joe's wife Clyde Lee were also going to be flying to Florida at the same time. She...

I got to thinking that each time we had been picked up by the City Airport Taxi, they had been late. So I decided I wanted to move the time to 6:30 instead of 7. So I called the various numbers and all I got was answering machines in Dutch. The desk girl at the hotel tried and she had no better...

I do cemetery documentation - whenever I have time, I go to cemeteries and take pictures. Then when I get home, I enter the data into a database called FindAGrave.com We set out again for two nearby cemeteries - Sint Barbara RC Church and the Alkmaar General Cemetery. The lady at the desk...

Eventually we went into a cafe Outside of the Grand Cafe samen Bar area from our table Bob ordered the anytime breakfast Bob's fried egg, cheese and tea My cheese sandwich I just had a cheese sandwich and a cup of tea. Dessert refrigerator (we didn't get any) Bob suddenly panicked...

Weigh house after the Cheese Market is over Street Organ We saw a street organ like the one we saw at the tulip gardens. A street organ is an automatic mechanical pneumatic organ designed to be mobile enough to play its music in the street. Dutch street organ are large organs that play book...

TV Camera from inside the cheese museum Cheese cart in person and on TV Overhead view on the screen a Cheese Carriers on the TV I also took a video with my cell phone. I assume that the various personnel in the cheese market performance are identified in the presentation. But I did...

There were people standing four or five deep all around the market area and from the scooter I couldn't even see the big TV screen they had. Bob's view I gradually worked my way around to the other side of the square and then it started to rain so I ducked into the Cheese Museum. From inside...

29 April 2016 we went down for breakfast. The hotel breakfast was a good one and not as expensive as the one for $25 each that we had in Amsterdam. This breakfast was $17 each. The breakfast area was quite crowded because most people at the hotel were having breakfast, but there was adequate...

This was from a letter my mom wrote in 1965: We expected to have several hours in Rotterdam for a visit with K.. but instead of taking us 50 minutes to get to Rotterdam..it took us about 1 1/2 hours. There were three places where we had one-way traffic due to road construction, and the lines...

Dining room Steward The only fly in the ointment is the dining steward - a prissy, sissy individual. There are 5 at our table - another couple our age with 3 boys (the L's). He is in personnel at Westinghouse at Newark. They are very nice. The fifth person is a young German girl returning to...

We fell into bed and slept until 8 Friday morning getting to the boat Got up and dressed and went to Child's for breakfast. Never go to the one near the Statler. Terrible service. Then I went to Macy's to buy some slips--I remembered I hadn't packed any!! And Daddy decided to get suspenders to...

The beginning of the trip in 1965 I came across a letter my mom wrote about her trip in 1965. It would make a good travelogue except that is wasn't my travel, and my mom is now dead so she can't post it herself. But I thought it was amusing. In 1965, she and my dad took a working vacation to...

Going back a little - We went in the side door of the Grote Sint Laurenskerk (there is a handicapped entrance). And I took a photo of the statue that was outside first. It is the statue to Maerten Pietersz van der Meij. He was the city's carpenter, but became famous by smuggling letters to and...

Golden Age The last part of the main exhibit was "The Golden Age" . To show their gratitude for the city's loyal stand, William of Orange and the States of Holland awarded Alkmaar the Weight House revenues. Painting of the Weight House 1660. It was mainly cheese that was weighed and traded...