click on pic to enlargeThis is me circa 1942 driving in my automobiles, yes plural. I had the first "Hurts Dealership"in L.I. City. Actually they were not my cars. They were in the yard of my grandparents house in Long Island City. All my cousin played with them. In the top pic you can see where my father learned his flair for home landscaping, from his parents.... Yes, that is two wheelbarrows, the top one has metal wheels and what would a Cianciaruso yard be without a broken stove...ah, this was all recreated in Floral Park by my father..I tried to do that in Boca and evicted and forced to move to Jacksonville...now you know the true story. Actually, Joey, Janet and Michael lived on the second floor of the house you see as the rear wall in the first pic. I lived in the front house, then came the yard and there was another house. That is where the Conlon's lived. I wish I had those cars today, they would be worth a fortune.
More to come, still sorting all the slides.
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So let me try to understand this. The story I heard was there was no toys except an Orange and Apple for Xmas, yet there is Donnie, in his two toy cars. He still has the Teletubbies hood on, which really makes me curious, but aside from that it all makes sense now.
Donnie does not drive because he doesn't like hoods.
No cars and no hair.
These pictures tell a story, feel like I am on CSI ;-)
Luv Ron
hahah Great Pictures
My father was an innovator, long before its time.
These pictures depict
"Don, in the Hood"
Ron let me clarify one thing, at Christmas it was not an Orange and an Apple....it was an Orange "OR" an Aplle and considering oranges were not is season in December it was only the apple and I only got it when my older cousins were finished with it. and yes you are like C S I
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Now the way I heard it was .... you got the coloring book and Dad got the crayons. Or when he finally got a sled it didn't snow that year so he had to borrow your roller skates to put on the bottom of the sled so you had something to do because neither one of you had any toys.
Love ya,
K
HE DOES LOOK LIKE A TELETUBBIE ....Wow, there is just so much I can read into that!
LOL...
Don, now I understand why you don't want a tricycle - you're spoiled having had those cars.
I agree, Ron. After all the stories of poverty, we keep seeing well-dressed and well-supplied people. I guess even poverty was better in the good olde days:)
Well he did get one toy, in fact he probably still plays with it ;-)
L- Ron
Sis...did you ever wonder why you only see one person in a pic at a time..we were all well dressed but only one of us could wear it at a time...and I guess having more than one wheelbarrow made us well supplied.The Outdoor kitchen really put us over the top. We were trend setters..
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