To have a pleasant attitude! Be happy wherever you are in life.

I was Aunt Hassie favorite out of all the children. Aunt Hassie would let me go on train trip with her.! When I was about eight years old, Aunt Hassie had a hat shop and had to go to Dallas to buy hats for her shop once or twice a year. She would take me along with her. I was so excited to be on a train that I couldn’t sleep! We would eat at a restaurant at the Baker Hotel in Dallas. I loved to eat out because my family couldn’t afford to do that back home. One day while at the hotel, the waiter put the salt in the sugar bowl and I sprinkled it on my cereal and I couldn’t eat it, because it tasted so bad. I was scared to tell Aunt Hassie. I didn’t want to be any trouble to her so she would take me on the train again.

 

A funny! …. During the war, I had a friend named Polly, We did everything together. On day we were walking in front of an old, retired hotel where troops were station…. And Polly was looking at the boys and flirting with the boys and not paying attend to where she was going. She walked onto a guywire coming from the ground going up to a pole. When all of the sudden she couldn’t walk any longer and had to back down the guywire. The boys on the porch laughed so hard and we were so embarrassed. We couldn’t walk fast enough to get out of there.

As a child, I would get to go swim at the city swimming pool once a month for 10 cents. That was all my mom and dad could afford.

My friends and I loved to go play across the street in the public cemetery. One day one of my friend’s grandmother decided to play a trick on us. She dressed up like a ghost and got behind an old tombstone until we got close enough to see the ghost. As we were leaving, I saw a ghost like figure moving from one tombstone to another. We all got scared and ran towards the gate and out of the cemetery. It wasn’t until later that we learned it was one of the children’s grandmothers!!! That end us playing in the cemetery!!!

Morals, technology, prices, music

Learn what being a Christian means and sticking to it!

Becoming a Christian, my family, a blessing from God.

Goldsmith’s and Levy’s. I would shop there after work.

Anderton’s. Loved to go there and eat oysters! They were the best!

For anniversaries, we would go the Peabody. They had a band on the roof that play swing music and we would dance.

I love to go to Bass Pro Shop and eat in their restaurant upstairs late in the evening and watch the Memphis bridge turn different colors.

I hope I have lived my life in such a way that has reflected and pleasing to God and set the right example for my family and others.