Yearly membership for $5.00!!!!!!!!!

CAMP NE O TEZ READERS!!!!!!!!!!!!

DO YOU REMEMBER?

Is it the valley or Cuvier River?

Again I do not know if it is the Desoto pool we rented
are is it Cuvier River?

I wonder who the campers are?

Who are they? I honestly do not know.

This was the steel building when it was located on Chippewa

Who remembers the bus?

                                        HAPPY THANKSGIVING 2011!!!!!!!!!!!!
                         I thought it would be interesting to look at some really great holiday cards .                                                

Our first photo card

!966 from Independence MO

Our first photo card with six grandchildren!!!!!

Nancy and I wish everyone a great Thanksgiving and a joyous 2011 holiday season.

Cypress Gardens 1966 ski show

 FORTY FIVE YEARS AGO------JUNE 1966!!!!!!!
You had to be living in 1966 to believe the story that follows.
Nancy,five year old Terri, three year old Sherri and I left Shrewsbury Mo on a Saturday morning headed for Florida. I had $250.00 in my pocket and three hundred dollars in travelers checks, a Standard Oil credit card and four nights in St Petersburg FL prepaid. We had the following goals.
* If at the ocean we needed to stay in beach front accommodations
* Every place we stayed with no beach had to have a pool

Daytona Beach I drove a 1966 Chevy Impala on this beach

Directly across the street from Atlantic ocean in Fort Lauderdale
We paid $20.00 per night for a two bedroom unit
with free breakfast and a pool. My 1963 Impala is parked in
the front.

Hialeah Race track Miami FL
I wonder who the two little girls are?

St Augustine FL street scene 1966

Marine Land near St Augustine
I was so thrilled with the Dolphin show
I made all set through a second show.

Another street scene St Augustine FL

Sky line of Miami FL from Biscayne Bay


Results of our two week trip

***Arrived home with $9.00 and no traveler checks.
*** Gone fourteen nights
             *** Spent two nights with relatives 
*** Four nights were prepaid
*** All car expenses were on Standard Oil card
We went too!!!!!!!
***Silver Springs
*** Marine Land
*** Cypress Gardens
*** A boat ride on Biscayne Bay
*** The Everglades
*** Circus Hall of Fame in Sarasota FL
*** Drove on the beach in Daytona FL
*** Toured Busch Gardens in Tampa Fl
{but it was nothing like today}
*** No Magic Kingdom or sea World as 
they have not yet been created.
I know if I had not lived through it I would not believe it.!!!!!!!!!!!!!    

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TODD!!!!!!!!

What was the world like in 1988?

*** Gas was .72 to .98 per gallon

         *** Teacher salaries averaged $19,860

*** #1 movie was Rainman

                      *** first time CD's outsold vinyl music albums

     *** First heart pacemaker implanted

1994

*** Olympics held in South Korea

2007

too cute!!!!!

A piece of useless trivia. There is fifty years difference in Todd and my age. What was my life like in 1961?

*** Todd,s mom Terri was born

                        *** Our house payment was $89.17 per month

         *** gasoline prices were .31 per gallon

   ***Nancy was a stay at home mom

Happy birthday Todd!!!! Grandma and I hope you have a great birthday and a really special day with Sara. 

  THE ST LOUIS ZOO A LONG TIME AGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The lake near the seals photo taken 11/1959

Bear pits photo taken 11/1959

Bear pits of 1959

A comparison of the bear pits of today

The Monkey show around 1966 and
of course even when I was a little boy.
{a long time ago}

Reasonably certain this is the same stage as the
Monkey show.
When did it change?
anyone remember?


In many ways our zoo has certainly improved. Yet I miss the shows. we had real animal trainers putting on three outstanding animal shows up until I guess the late sixties when we moved to Kansas City. We had a monkey show, a elephant show and a Lion show. All three shows where first class. I have no memory of the seal show even thought I must have been there as I have the picture to prove it.

For comparison this is the
Tulsa OK Zoo in 1967

Yes we had the four youngest
for a night at the grandparents.

THE END of  SUMMER!!!!!!!!!

I wonder who is in charge?

Saying good by

We actually enjoyed the sleep over!!!

Grandpa sure enjoyed this day of grass cutting

The lecture!!!!!!!!!!

The boy loves basketball

I know it is hard to see but Donovan cut his #51 into the grass
Similar!!! to the arch at Busch Stadium

The reason grandma and I stayed in St Louis is our six grandchildren.