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Our first house, 1955. We had no trees. I think we only lived there a year or two while we waited for the house across the street to become available. Our Morris Minor is parked out front. One bright moonlit night we journeyed along some out-of-the way back road fairly far from home when the radiator hose broke. Not wanting to be stranded on a road traveled once a week at best, my dad drove the car all the way home with no water in the radiator. He parked it, and there the engine block cracked and "froze". We never drove it again. We were living in our second house at the time of that adventure. |
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Here's Patsy in the yard of our second house. You can see the trees and the houses across the street just north of us. We got Patsy in 1960. ^ Top |
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Patsy in the yard. The porch behind her on the south side of the house. I loved to look out the window when sitting at the kitchen table. To the east is the Big Maria Mountain Range. ^ Top |
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We had a tremendous wind storm that blew off roofs and pierced the side of our house with a ten-foot metal pole. This view is looking west down our block. Some people said it was a tornado. It did seem to do damage in a wide path. ^ Top |
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A color picture! My grandma and grandpa came for a visit and took this posed picture of my mom, Marjorie and I in front of the second house we lived in. I must have been about 10 years old in these pictures. ^ Top |
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Another picture taken the same day. My dad, Frank, and I in front of our car, which we named the "Green Hornet", I have no clue why. Looks like there's a train in the distance. ^ Top |
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Me, my mom and my step-grandfather in front of the old Morris Minor after it's engine block cracked. You can see the USG plant and Big Maria mountain in the background. My grandma was big on having everyone look like they were busy. You can see we all ended up holding something! Wonder what happened to the old Morris Minor after we left? ^ Top |
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My dad watches Patsy dig in the culled gypsum piles. ^ Top |
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Our Cadillac and my driveway art. This was at our second house. I scraped the gravel into a 3D horse and wet the ground around it to make it stand out more. Then I made my dad drive around it for two weeks. I hated that Caddy because I thought it was ugly. My mom said she loved it because it had air conditioning. We used it to pull a trailer to LA loaded with our belongings when we moved. ^ Top |
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