Good Sandwiches

One of my favorite lunch sandwiches was make from Campbell's bean soup. Mother would spoon the cold beans right on the bread. I thought they were much better than a peanut butter sandwich. I still make them once in a while.

Another sandwich I loved was made with fried spam and mustard with a slice of tomato on it. No amount of money could buy anything better.

The Feed Store

The feed store was right on the main street in Bristol. That was always a fun trip to get feed for the animals. They had so many interesting things in there like boxes of rat poison with a picture of a really ugly rat on them.

After Dad paid for the feed, we had to back down a very steep driveway that used to scare Mother, she never liked steep hills. That old 36 Plymouth was a workhorse, we still had it several years after we moved to NJ. It carried everything from feed, animals, people, and even scrap iron.

The Food Market

I always liked going to this little market where Dad used to buy lunch meat and cheese. I would get close to where they were slicing the cold cuts just to smell the American cheese. It was really strong smelling compared to what it is today.

We would almost always get an ice cream sandwich to eat on the way home. They seemed so big, but I guess it was because I was so small.

Fleetwings

Aunt Wilda sent me this website. It's about the airport we lived next to in the lockhouse where Dad worked in the fleetwings factory.

The airport

Calling a Dr.

Things have really changed since I was a kid. I remember when I was in the 3rd grade I was running around the Lower Township grammar school and bumped into someone. I glanced off them and hit the brick school head first. This was on the lunch break and the next thing I remembered, the teacher was asking me if I was feeling better. I looked around and here I was at my desk and the clock said 3:15, time for school to end for the day. I had a terrible headache and when I moved my head, everything would spin.

Here I had sat in class all afternoon with a concussion and the teacher didn't call a doctor. Some of the other students said I was talking crazy, but I don't remember.

Dr's by Aunt Wilda

Back in the 40's, Doctors use to come to your house. Our family Dr. was Dr.Webb. When I was going to start School, Dr. Webb came to the lockhouse to give me my vaccination.( I liked him until then.) Our family was so use to him, because he delivered about half of the family back then. His name was James Doyle Webb, so now you know where Jim got his name. Back at that time we borrowed names, now we make them up.

Ice Skaters

One cold day a group of ice skaters were coming down the canal from Bristol. I thought it was the neatest thing the way they just glided along so smoothly and fast.

I couldn't skate, but I had a lot of fun just sliding from one bank to the other. I used to fall a lot and I still remember how my hands used to sting from the cold hard ice. We used to hear the ice cracking from our weight, good thing it held.

It was always great to go in and stand in front of the stove after a time in the cold. I liked to stand there until my clothes started steaming.