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Thanks Ken..I have some of the old "classic" picture post cards which my GF sent home to myGM with short greetings on them...thus identifying their authenticity along with the post marks..Some photos of the T-2 mallets at Hot Springs and Deadwood. If your GF managed a store at Hot Springs my GF would have known him..He seemed to have known everybody in all the towns he served.
In 1949 my GF my Sister and I made a driving trip across his old territory enroute to visit relatives in Sheridan WY.. We stopped at all the towns where he had drug store customers..Some of the old guys were still around and I got the benefit of listening to two old guys.."younger then than I am now"..talk about the old days...When we would walk into one of those old drug stores most of which still had soda fountains and were dark and non AC. The proprietor after greeting my GF having not seen him for 40 plus years would say..come on back here...and would call to the "soda jerk"..."GET THIS BOY SOME ICE CREAM"....Oh to remember the details of some of those stories.
Pete
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From: Kenneth Martin kmartin537@surewest.net [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thu, Jul 7, 2016 11:35 pm Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Depot Location? Pete,
Nice story. My dad was born in Hot Springs in 1908, his father managed a lumber store there.
In 1917 my mothers father sold his farm in Iowa and drove a Model T to Great Falls, Montana. My mom told me that in those days roads were not numbered but had colored bands around posts. At one point they got off the highway and stopped at a farm and asked directions and the farmer just nodded his head and said "Ya, dat da highway, Ya, dat da highway". They later got back on the right road.
Ken Martin
On Jul 7, 2016, at 9:04 AM, Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com [CBQ] wrote:
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