Marge and I being married in 1960
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Marge's 1961 birthday photo
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Tag Archives: driving
June 1977
A family memoir of summer life including travel, learning, children and Marge driving the car and trailer down south. Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Coopersburg PA, memoir, Summer vacations
Tagged children, driving, family, fun
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May 1977
The sunny South, land of Tara and “Gone with the Wind”. Also, Live Oaks and Spanish moss. Our annual Spring vacation where we went to get a head start on spring in PA. The Civil War, aka War of Northern Aggression, started here. View a Park Service video of Fort Sumter history. Join us. Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Coopersburg PA, memoir, Summer vacations
Tagged coopersburg, driving, family, fun, Marge, vacation
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Winter Wonders 1976
41 years ago, Thanksgiving and Christmas, trips, work, hobbies, cars and familys memories Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown
Tagged cars, children, coopersburg, Dannemora, driving, Marge, misunderstanding, road travel, singing
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The falling leaves-1976
Fall, camping, children, cars, electronics, fishing, audiology, teaching films courses, Sacramento Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Binghamton, Coopersburg PA, Summer vacations
Tagged camping, cars, children, driving, family, friends, fun, Hearing aids, pets, photos
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Summer Solstice Soliloquies
family life in 1976, photos, Dad’s death,Lake Placid, summer vacations, ham radio, ages and stages Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Coopersburg PA, Relationships, Summer vacations
Tagged death, driving, friends, Ingrid, memoir, photos, road travel, summer
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November News – 1975
Allentown November, very proper British clothes, car wreck, our music interests, ending in Thanksgiving. Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown, Coopersburg PA, Uncategorized
Tagged cars, children, church, driving, health, hobbies, life, music, Religion
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May Memories – 1975,Holiday, Wallenpaupack, Trailering Home improvements
Wallenpaupack holiday, Nichols family plot, Hancock, NY, Beverley Hills home, upgrading, new chairs, trailering, High school musicale Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Pennsylvania
Tagged children, church, coopersburg, driving, family, featured, life, memoir, music, PP&L
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April Fools – 1975
Travel trailer vacation, Florida, Disney world, Weekie Watchie, St Augustine North Carolina,bad weather, home again Continue reading
Posted in Coopersburg PA, Relationships, Summer vacations
Tagged children, driving, family, feelings, fun, history, life, vacation
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Feb. 1975, Flu, Florida, Family, Guitar, Electronics, Furniture
Mid winter in PA, Flu, Florida, Trailer travel, Guitar, Electronics,Furniture Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown, Coopersburg PA
Tagged coopersburg, driving, family, friends, health, Marge, memoir, music, PP&L, road travel
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Easter Vacation 1974
I think that a slight change in style is proper. My sources, other than memories, are letters and notes from the time period in the blog title. I am trying to correctly represent that by writing in the past tense … Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Allentown
Tagged coopersburg, dining, driving, health, Marge, marriage, memoir, Moravian church, travel trailer
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April 1974
March surely did go out like a lion this year. We had about an inch of snow on March 31, but it didn’t last long. The snow flakes were big and wet, came down hard for a few hours and … Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Coopersburg PA
Tagged Beverly Hills, coopersburg, driving, featured, marriage, memoir, road travel
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Marching Along – 1974
Spring is springing, a young man’s thoughts turn to Love, and a middle-aged man thinks about his trailer. March 74 certainly came in very lamb-like. I was sick again in February with the flu, more severe in February than January. … Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Coopersburg PA
Tagged Beverly Hills, cars, clothes, driving, friends, health, Marge, memoir, PP&L, road travel
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Another New Year – 1974
Here we are again, now in 1974. I didn’t get around to writing until the end of the month for some unknown reason now, probably the Christmas rush, celebrations, etc. One of our Christmas day rituals was turning the house … Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Coopersburg PA
Tagged Beverly Hills, coopersburg, driving, hobbies, life, love, marriage, memoir, Pennsylvania, relationships, road travel, taxes, trailer travel
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Great Expectations – Our First Trailer Trip
I am shameless in appropriating titles, though we did in fact have great expectations for our first trailer vacation. The time was April 1973 just preceding Easter of that year. We made a trial trip to Lancaster PA to get an actual … Continue reading
Posted in Coopersburg PA, Pennsylvania
Tagged Atlantic coast, coopersburg, driving, emotions, Marge, memoir, Myrtle Beach, road travel, trailer
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R. F. & M. F. – End of Chapter
“MY GRANDFATHER’S CLOCK” Words and Lyrics Henry Clay Work “My grandfather’s clock was too large for the shelf, So it stood ninety years on the floor; It was taller by half than the old man himself, Though it weighed not … Continue reading
Posted in Marital difficulties, Relationships, Vegas 1980-1990, Vestal
Tagged clockwork, college, death, driving, emotions, grief, life, love, Marge, marriage, memoir, mind prober, misunderstanding, National Guard, Personality testing, relationships, road travel
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Experimenting With Drugs
I experimented with drugs while at Syracuse University. Yes, and I am proud of this. This activity was an added benefit of working at the Infirmary. The Norwich Pharmaceutical Company started in 1887 in Norwich, NY and exists today as … Continue reading
The Meaning of a Classic
Early Fall had arrived to Syracuse in September 1957. Roy and I had settled in to our room at the Infirmary, and were walking on a Friday evening. We had left the infirmary on Waverly, walked east and turned south on … Continue reading
Posted in Syracuse, Syracuse University
Tagged Buick, driving, emotions, fantasy, friends, memoir, New York, relationships, road travel, students, Syracuse University
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Pummeled by Pumpkins -1955
New York, The Empire State. It was in the 1950’s and still is known that way, who knows why? Wikipedia gives the following note on the subject: the U.S. State of New York has been known by many nicknames, the … Continue reading
Posted in Syracuse, Syracuse University
Tagged accident, college, dating in 1950s, driving, Emergency room, featured, friends, memoir, Model A, Morgan, Renault Dauphine, students, Syracuse, Syracuse University
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Cars And Carpentry
What has the post title got to do with Marge, Bob or us? In a way, an automobile is a tool. Its main purpose is to give us personal mobility. We don’t have to rely on foot power, real equine … Continue reading
Posted in 1970-1980, Coopersburg PA
Tagged 1966 Cadillac, auto maintenance, Beverly Hills, cabinetmaking, Carpentry, coopersburg, driving, Marge, marriage, memoir, printing.1957 Cadillac, Rambler, tools
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333 Snowdale Drive
Our new home for a while is at 333 Snowdale Drive, Syracuse. This is actually in an area known as Seneca Knolls and the Seneca river is nearby. In 1962, State Fair Blvd. was the access road to Syracuse … Continue reading
Posted in Binghamton, Syracuse, Syracuse University
Tagged Crucible Steel, driving, marriage, memoir, moving, Syracuse, Syracuse University
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Surprise Visit
Surprise visit The large majority of the National Guardsmen called up to man our base were from the Boston area. They, like the Syracuse unit of the national guard, were equipped with F-86 fighters, which by 1962 were of Korean … Continue reading
Posted in Active Duty, US Air Force
Tagged Air Force, Air National Guard, baby, birth, driving, marriage, memoir
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Autumn 1959
“I found this tonight and somehow I wanted you to know what it says. It is very lovely. I love you very much. EBB says it much better than I can, although she spoke to a different “Robert” 1959 begins … Continue reading
Posted in Syracuse, Syracuse University
Tagged Dannemora, dating in 1950s, driving, graduation, grief, memoir, New York, road travel, students, Syracuse University
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204 Cannon St.
After I completed Basic Training, I came back to Syracuse, of course. I stayed for a very short time at James and Lodi. Our old flat had been taken, but the landlady had a little one bedroom place that was … Continue reading
Posted in Syracuse, Syracuse University
Tagged Crucible Steel, Dannemora, dating in 1950s, driving, memoir, New York, Syracuse, Syracuse University
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James and Lodi
Once upon a time, long, long ago, there was a large handsome brick home on the corner of James and Lodi streets in Syracuse. It might have been owned by the president of a local bank or someone like … Continue reading
Posted in Syracuse, Syracuse University
Tagged dating in 1950s, driving, friends, memoir, New York, Onondaga Park, students, Syracuse University
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Thanksgiving 1958
It was a dark and stormy night. All right, not stormy, but certainly dark. Nothing too dramatic this term. Marge and I had become quite attached to each other and we often went for little drives just to be together. … Continue reading
Posted in Syracuse, Syracuse University
Tagged clothes, Dannemora, dating in 1950s, dining, driving, memoir, New York, road travel, students, Syracuse University
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Lake Placid NY – 1958
Welcome to Lake Placid, NY home of two winter Olympics. Lake Placid is a really nice place in summer. Pleasant days and the evenings are usually cool enough to wear a light jacket. Winter’s a different story with below zero days even … Continue reading
Posted in Syracuse, Syracuse University
Tagged clothes, Cornwall, dating in 1950s, driving, Lake Placid, memoir, New York, road travel, students, Syracuse University
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Graduation 1958
Graduation day at Syracuse University for the class of 1958. ” We’re the Class of ’58, we’re the class that’s really great!!” as we were taught to chant at orientation in 1954. A lot of bull to me, but it … Continue reading
Posted in Syracuse, Syracuse University
Tagged clothes, dating in 1950s, driving, New York, Onondaga Park, students, Syracuse University
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Sentimental Journey
There used to be a ballad with the name of Sentimental Journey. As in any journey it has to begin somewhere and, naturally, this begins on the campus of Syracuse University. I enclose a plan map of S.U. that I … Continue reading
Posted in Syracuse, Syracuse University
Tagged Cornwall, dating in 1950s, driving, road travel, students, Syracuse University
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55 Years Together 