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In reply to the discussion: Old people stories are the best! [View all]tavernier
(12,400 posts)5. I'm not far from your memories myself!
I also remember watching TV at neighbor's house when Queen Elizabeth was crowned. I also remember sending in (with box tops) for a a vinyl sheet that would make my tv 'In Color!' It had three horizontal stripes of red, blue and green to slap onto the screen. 😄
I guess the most poignant memories I have here in the Keys are of the families who lived through the early hurricanes, especially the one that wiped out the Flagler railroad. The oldest brother told me that he climbed a telegraph pole, the water reaching above his nose before it finally subsided. Another resident (now long gone) still cried as he remembered taking bodies out of the Mangrove branches.
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Many of those bodies were brought here to West Palm Beach and buried. The cemetary had been long
monmouth3
Apr 2014
#62
In 1921 my grandfather, then 20 and a new father, lost his job....He didn't come home that night
Rowdyboy
Apr 2014
#6
Please feel free to pass his story on. He was a wonderful man and I loved him more than my own
Rowdyboy
Apr 2014
#10
My grandfather was president of a small town bank during the '29 stock market crash.
Divernan
Apr 2014
#21
My dad was a big kid, and faked his birth certificate somehow and got his driver's license
Jenoch
Apr 2014
#52
Maybe the reason was his upcoming social security. My first husband did the same thing...LOL..n/t
monmouth3
Apr 2014
#63
I love the oral tradition and the long stories people from back in the day tell.
applegrove
Apr 2014
#33
I can't tell a story. I can't. Plus I can't remember much. She stopped telling them
applegrove
Apr 2014
#36