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Re: goodguy, YES ........ geezer, NO !

To: wspotter@jps.net
Subject: Re: goodguy, YES ........ geezer, NO !
From: FastmetalBDF@aol.com
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 21:30:49 EST
      Hi  Wes ,    I  do remember my mother leaving the want list in the 
empty milk
 bottles ,  and eating the cream that froze up out of the milk bottle neck ,  
or
sometimes shattered the bottle  !   As a small child on double runner ice 
skates ,
I  remember the men sawing ice with long saw blades .........  THAT  to me 
seems 
to be the most old fashioned thing that  I  can  recall  .    I  sure can 
recall how the
toast would burn in those old  " flip down side " toasters if you didn' t 
keep an eye
on them ........ and helping my father put chains on his tires in the winter 
..........
I  recall the roar of  Thunderbolts ,  Hellcats ,  and other warbirds of the  
40s .
My dad also took me one time to watch  Admiral  Byrd' s convoy of  Arctic type
vehicles pass by on their way to  Boston  to load onto the expedition ships 
........
some were  HUGE  orange tracked snow cats  !     But the very best memories
from the  30s and  40s are of the  TRAINS ,  and  STEAM  ENGINES  of all 
kinds,
from little yard switchers to the huge engines that ran out on the high iron 
,  the
main line where the passenger trains roared by at  80 or 90  mph ,  and  some
freight trains were so long they had to doublehead ,  or  triplehead ,  the 
engines
on them  ........  I  still  have a couple of squashed out pennies that went 
under
those wheels over  55  years ago  !     I  have so many recollections from the
war years ........  all part of becoming a geezer ,  I  would imagine  .   I  
won' t
bore you with any more of my ramblings ......... we  ALL  accumulate these
memories as we roll on through life ,  and it sure is funny how the older we 
get, 
and the more we see,  learn,  and experience  .......... we then start to 
realize
how  VERY  LITTLE  we know of the  ENTIRE  BIG  PICTURE  ............
VERY  HUMBLING .............. akin to seeing a sunrise or sunset on the salt
flats of western  Utah ............. sure makes you wonder ...................
             too nostalgic ,  too often  ,         Bruce

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