Comments on: Back When Grandpa was a Boy http://katiekind.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/back-when-grandpa-was-a-boy/ Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:23:19 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: katiekind http://katiekind.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/back-when-grandpa-was-a-boy/#comment-1106 katiekind Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:29:20 +0000 http://katiekind.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/back-when-grandpa-was-a-boy/#comment-1106 Phyllis, if my dad was still alive he would have loved to hear of these reminiscences! He probably knew right where the house on Cleveland was. I think one of the relatives lived on Harrison and he grew up in a little house on Vilas Street. When we went back to see it as adults, I couldn't believe how tiny it was. But my grandparents were very proud of it. I remember they had a large garden and that Grandpa would let me help him feed chickens that they kept in a coop off to the side! Phyllis, if my dad was still alive he would have loved to hear of these reminiscences! He probably knew right where the house on Cleveland was.

I think one of the relatives lived on Harrison and he grew up in a little house on Vilas Street. When we went back to see it as adults, I couldn’t believe how tiny it was. But my grandparents were very proud of it. I remember they had a large garden and that Grandpa would let me help him feed chickens that they kept in a coop off to the side!

]]> By: phyllis robertson http://katiekind.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/back-when-grandpa-was-a-boy/#comment-1105 phyllis robertson Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:59:23 +0000 http://katiekind.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/back-when-grandpa-was-a-boy/#comment-1105 hi, iwas raised in guthrie at different times between 1924 and 1940. My mother was born in crescent and later grew up in guthrie. her mother and father were 89ers. they live on 112 cleveland until her dad a widower died at 97 years. I believe it was 1967. Afyer mom married a man from okc and had us children we occasionly in the depression moved back in with her parents. In 1930 I went to the 1st semester of the 1st grade their and twothe 1st M.E. church. then back to OKC and then back to gtandma's house for the fifth grade. I went to central grade school. Miss Lohr was my 1st grade teacher and she also had taught my mother in 1st grade. I certainly have enjoyed reading all yor dad's remembrances. I want to visit Guthrie again and see all the historic changes if I can. I spent many summers there at their house then mother moved back i 1942 and worked at Lintz's dept storeuntil she got a job with the ffa office and retired from it My sisters went highschool there. Ilived i a rented house on warner for a short while then moved okc. but your picyures bring back so many memories. I surely enjoyed seeing it. thanks, pb hi, iwas raised in guthrie at different times between 1924 and 1940. My mother was born in crescent and later grew up in guthrie. her mother and father were 89ers. they live on 112 cleveland until her dad a widower died at 97 years. I believe it was 1967. Afyer mom married a man from okc and had us children we occasionly in the depression moved back in with her parents. In 1930 I went to the 1st semester of the 1st grade their and twothe 1st M.E. church. then back to OKC and then back to gtandma’s house for the fifth grade. I went to central grade school. Miss Lohr was my 1st grade teacher and she also had taught my mother in 1st grade. I certainly have enjoyed reading all yor dad’s remembrances. I want to visit Guthrie again and see all the historic changes if I can. I spent many summers there at their house then mother moved back i 1942 and worked at Lintz’s dept storeuntil she got a job with the ffa office and retired from it My sisters went highschool there. Ilived i a rented house on warner for a short while then moved okc. but your picyures bring back so many memories. I surely enjoyed seeing it. thanks, pb

]]> By: katiekind http://katiekind.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/back-when-grandpa-was-a-boy/#comment-274 katiekind Mon, 05 Nov 2007 04:18:08 +0000 http://katiekind.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/back-when-grandpa-was-a-boy/#comment-274 I don't know if I heard that one. He told me a story, and I guess I didn't write it down, so I don't fully recall the details, but there was a cabin out on the farm down by the creek where outlaws were known to take refuge and there was an occasion when that happened and male members of the family gathered to roust them out of there. I can't remember if Dad was involved in that or not, and I can't remember if the farm was his dad's farm or the farm of a family member. I can't imagine why I didn't write that down, or perhaps it was after hearing about that I realized I needed to get some paper and pen and start writing while he talked. There was so much more, all about his army days (when he played in a band for the army!) and so on. He did have an amazing memory for all these details--names, addresses, phone numbers, long-lost kin. One time we actually mapped out the downtown area from his memory. And of course you know his humor, Kara. Many of the stories were full of humor or wry detail. If I would have tape recorded, it would have been even better, although I don't know if I could bear to listen now or not. I do miss him very much. I know you do too. *hugs, back* I don’t know if I heard that one. He told me a story, and I guess I didn’t write it down, so I don’t fully recall the details, but there was a cabin out on the farm down by the creek where outlaws were known to take refuge and there was an occasion when that happened and male members of the family gathered to roust them out of there. I can’t remember if Dad was involved in that or not, and I can’t remember if the farm was his dad’s farm or the farm of a family member.

I can’t imagine why I didn’t write that down, or perhaps it was after hearing about that I realized I needed to get some paper and pen and start writing while he talked. There was so much more, all about his army days (when he played in a band for the army!) and so on.

He did have an amazing memory for all these details–names, addresses, phone numbers, long-lost kin. One time we actually mapped out the downtown area from his memory. And of course you know his humor, Kara. Many of the stories were full of humor or wry detail. If I would have tape recorded, it would have been even better, although I don’t know if I could bear to listen now or not. I do miss him very much. I know you do too. *hugs, back*

]]> By: kara http://katiekind.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/back-when-grandpa-was-a-boy/#comment-271 kara Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:42:38 +0000 http://katiekind.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/back-when-grandpa-was-a-boy/#comment-271 Thanks, Kathy, I knew only a few of those stories. Do you remember the one about, maybe, Dad being a little boy and there being an intruder of some kind, and Dad asking Grandpa, "Do you want me to get the gun, Dad?" *hugs* Thanks, Kathy, I knew only a few of those stories. Do you remember the one about, maybe, Dad being a little boy and there being an intruder of some kind, and Dad asking Grandpa, “Do you want me to get the gun, Dad?”

*hugs*

]]> By: ummali http://katiekind.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/back-when-grandpa-was-a-boy/#comment-258 ummali Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:32:37 +0000 http://katiekind.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/back-when-grandpa-was-a-boy/#comment-258 Hello I don't usually read long articles as I don't have the patience lol to sit and read them, but this was so intriguing. Your dad has an amazing memory. Hello
I don’t usually read long articles as I don’t have the patience lol to sit and read them, but this was so intriguing. Your dad has an amazing memory.

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