Jar of Questions - Part 5
How did I meet my inlaws?
Id known of them it seem like all my life. Id known Joe from the wrecking yard days and his garage days in the old Inn building by the old Mezona dance hall. I didn't really know him then but knew who he was just like I knew who Joan was but really didn't know her. I guess when I really got to know them was when Joan and I was called as dance instructors at the 4th Ward and we started doing things together. Joans mom was nice and easy to get along with. Joe her dad was OK also but he liked to give us a hard time + he really enjoyed that. He really didn't mean enything by it - he just enjoyed doing it. It was his way even after we were married he still had to give us + the kids a hard time but everyone just took it in stride for they knew that was just Grandpa Whittons way. I was assigned as there home teacher for awhile and Joe did let me in and we did have a good visit even though Joes comment was usually heres those dam Mormons again! And then he would smile and sit there in his chair in his shorts with a newspaper covering him. I never really had eny thoughts about them except I knew there life stile and they was active with the Elks Club and liked to party and was not active in the church so I respected them for that. The one I was interested in was there daughter Joan - and there was also Suzan, Ronnie, and Edith to think of. They were active in the church and was good kids + we did get to work on some of Joes used cars at our garage and so I did get to visit with him in his office on Country Club quite often. Thats where I went and asked him if I could marry his daughter Joan. It wasn't the best question to ask but he finally said OK. Joans mother was easy to get along with. I just walked softly around there and I didn't talk much either. They lived on North Westwood Street at the time and on the property that my grandpa Johnson homesteaded back in the late 1886 or so ? 83
Did I have a favorite TV or radio show as a child?
Sence we had no electricity in our home until later in my early teens the only time I heard a radio was when Elvin would pull his car up alongside the house and connect the wires from a old 6 volt house radio to his car battrey and we would listen to the Grand Old Opry on Saturday night. Usually on Sunday morning we would have to push his car to get it started because his battrey would be dead but I enjoyed the Grand Old Opry then and I still enjoy it on T.V. now. The whole family would sit around listening to that radio. I bought the family our first T.V. after going to California for T+S Motors. Doice Shults took me over to drive a car or truck back and as we went into Los Angeles driving along I watched all these T.V. screens showing pictures in the display windows and I liked that. So when I got home I went down and visited Mr Durham on S. MacDonald Street. He had Durham Radio + T.V. and I delivered papers to him on Orange Street and worked out a payment deal with him and brought home a plain square box T.V. set. But when we got it going the whole family would come and watch and Papa + Mama really enjoyed it. We always watched Papa when he would watch a boxing match - he would really get into it. With his swings + jabbes. One of the programs then was the Lone Ranger, and the Grand Old Opry.
Id known of them it seem like all my life. Id known Joe from the wrecking yard days and his garage days in the old Inn building by the old Mezona dance hall. I didn't really know him then but knew who he was just like I knew who Joan was but really didn't know her. I guess when I really got to know them was when Joan and I was called as dance instructors at the 4th Ward and we started doing things together. Joans mom was nice and easy to get along with. Joe her dad was OK also but he liked to give us a hard time + he really enjoyed that. He really didn't mean enything by it - he just enjoyed doing it. It was his way even after we were married he still had to give us + the kids a hard time but everyone just took it in stride for they knew that was just Grandpa Whittons way. I was assigned as there home teacher for awhile and Joe did let me in and we did have a good visit even though Joes comment was usually heres those dam Mormons again! And then he would smile and sit there in his chair in his shorts with a newspaper covering him. I never really had eny thoughts about them except I knew there life stile and they was active with the Elks Club and liked to party and was not active in the church so I respected them for that. The one I was interested in was there daughter Joan - and there was also Suzan, Ronnie, and Edith to think of. They were active in the church and was good kids + we did get to work on some of Joes used cars at our garage and so I did get to visit with him in his office on Country Club quite often. Thats where I went and asked him if I could marry his daughter Joan. It wasn't the best question to ask but he finally said OK. Joans mother was easy to get along with. I just walked softly around there and I didn't talk much either. They lived on North Westwood Street at the time and on the property that my grandpa Johnson homesteaded back in the late 1886 or so ? 83
Did I have a favorite TV or radio show as a child?
Sence we had no electricity in our home until later in my early teens the only time I heard a radio was when Elvin would pull his car up alongside the house and connect the wires from a old 6 volt house radio to his car battrey and we would listen to the Grand Old Opry on Saturday night. Usually on Sunday morning we would have to push his car to get it started because his battrey would be dead but I enjoyed the Grand Old Opry then and I still enjoy it on T.V. now. The whole family would sit around listening to that radio. I bought the family our first T.V. after going to California for T+S Motors. Doice Shults took me over to drive a car or truck back and as we went into Los Angeles driving along I watched all these T.V. screens showing pictures in the display windows and I liked that. So when I got home I went down and visited Mr Durham on S. MacDonald Street. He had Durham Radio + T.V. and I delivered papers to him on Orange Street and worked out a payment deal with him and brought home a plain square box T.V. set. But when we got it going the whole family would come and watch and Papa + Mama really enjoyed it. We always watched Papa when he would watch a boxing match - he would really get into it. With his swings + jabbes. One of the programs then was the Lone Ranger, and the Grand Old Opry.
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