Jar of Questions - Part 3
What are some songs from your childhood?
Give Said The Little Stream and Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam reminds me of Primary and the days going there, going to the old 4th Ward on Main St and Extension, of the teachers - Ellen Coons, Phebe Scott, Sister Fera Shelby, Dorthy Walker. This brings memorys of walking to Primary during the summer with friends from the old Alma School to the church after school down Main Street and the stairs up to the chapel and the stairs down into the basement and how spookie and scarie it was to the class room in the basement. And about Dix Coons who got Polio and we felt so bad for him being in a iron lung and had to wear braces on his legs later on. Primary was good - Primary was fun.
How and when and where did you learn to drive?
I really learned to drive on the farm. Papa had horses to do farm work with and also horse drawn farm equipment which worked well with horses but when he got the old Chevy doodel bug (a old Chevy 1932 that he cut down and made a tractor out of) and then a 1932 John Deere tractor with iron lugs on the wheels and we still have, well he needed help because it took one person on the equipment and one person driving the pulling vehicle. So I remember driving the John Deere tractor and how he taught me (Papa) and when he would leave me out in the field on the tractor by myself going up and down the field. I felt so big, and so grown up and so emportent. Papa would even take me out of school to drive the tractor and pull the binder during the harvest time of wheat. Papa would go from field to field cutting and binding the wheat in the fields around the neighborhood and ours as well. Then old Joe Rogers would take the thrashing machine that sepperated the wheat from the stock around and I remember it coming to our home with a big old steam tractor with flat wheels of steel and it had a big fly wheel on it and they would place the machine next to the pile of bound wheat and back the tractor off a ways and put a big belt from the tractor to the thrasher and then that would power the machine. Then they would throw the bundles into the machine and the straw would blow out a big pipe at the rear and make a straw stack and the wheat would come out the side and they had sacks that would fill with that and theyed sow up the sacks when they got full and fill another. Then after that was all done and the thrasher machine left Papa would load the wheat in the sacks on the trailer and pull the trailer with the horses up to the Arizona Flower Mill that was at Main St and Mesa Drive and they would buy some of the wheat for money and make some of it into flower so Mama could make all that great home made bread she baked. Us kids liked the ride up there with the horse because we got to ride on top of the wheat with Papa driving the horses. Later he used the car to pull the load. So really I guess the driving started by driving the horses then the tractor then the Chevy Doodle Bug and then I really learned to drive the 1934 Ply 4 door (the family car) and I remember when Papa let me drive it over to Dale Riggines home on Alma Sch Road to get some of there watermelons. I felt really grown up. Then my brother Lee let me drive his 1941 Ply 2 Door Coupe also and I used his car to go and get my drivers licence and I really appreciated that. I really liked driving his car. As for who helped teach me - Papa, Lee, Pearl and myself. Mama never did learn how to drive.
Give Said The Little Stream and Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam reminds me of Primary and the days going there, going to the old 4th Ward on Main St and Extension, of the teachers - Ellen Coons, Phebe Scott, Sister Fera Shelby, Dorthy Walker. This brings memorys of walking to Primary during the summer with friends from the old Alma School to the church after school down Main Street and the stairs up to the chapel and the stairs down into the basement and how spookie and scarie it was to the class room in the basement. And about Dix Coons who got Polio and we felt so bad for him being in a iron lung and had to wear braces on his legs later on. Primary was good - Primary was fun.
How and when and where did you learn to drive?
I really learned to drive on the farm. Papa had horses to do farm work with and also horse drawn farm equipment which worked well with horses but when he got the old Chevy doodel bug (a old Chevy 1932 that he cut down and made a tractor out of) and then a 1932 John Deere tractor with iron lugs on the wheels and we still have, well he needed help because it took one person on the equipment and one person driving the pulling vehicle. So I remember driving the John Deere tractor and how he taught me (Papa) and when he would leave me out in the field on the tractor by myself going up and down the field. I felt so big, and so grown up and so emportent. Papa would even take me out of school to drive the tractor and pull the binder during the harvest time of wheat. Papa would go from field to field cutting and binding the wheat in the fields around the neighborhood and ours as well. Then old Joe Rogers would take the thrashing machine that sepperated the wheat from the stock around and I remember it coming to our home with a big old steam tractor with flat wheels of steel and it had a big fly wheel on it and they would place the machine next to the pile of bound wheat and back the tractor off a ways and put a big belt from the tractor to the thrasher and then that would power the machine. Then they would throw the bundles into the machine and the straw would blow out a big pipe at the rear and make a straw stack and the wheat would come out the side and they had sacks that would fill with that and theyed sow up the sacks when they got full and fill another. Then after that was all done and the thrasher machine left Papa would load the wheat in the sacks on the trailer and pull the trailer with the horses up to the Arizona Flower Mill that was at Main St and Mesa Drive and they would buy some of the wheat for money and make some of it into flower so Mama could make all that great home made bread she baked. Us kids liked the ride up there with the horse because we got to ride on top of the wheat with Papa driving the horses. Later he used the car to pull the load. So really I guess the driving started by driving the horses then the tractor then the Chevy Doodle Bug and then I really learned to drive the 1934 Ply 4 door (the family car) and I remember when Papa let me drive it over to Dale Riggines home on Alma Sch Road to get some of there watermelons. I felt really grown up. Then my brother Lee let me drive his 1941 Ply 2 Door Coupe also and I used his car to go and get my drivers licence and I really appreciated that. I really liked driving his car. As for who helped teach me - Papa, Lee, Pearl and myself. Mama never did learn how to drive.
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