The Old Home Place---1940-41

[RonB]

My first pair of blue jeans, no more bib overalls for this kid.

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[Dennis Gallus]

Ron,

Thanks for sharing these photos, they are extremely interesting. I love the first. You and your mother? And is that auto a 1940 Nash?

I hope that future generations have the equivalent of a box of old photos to pull out and cherish.

Best regards,
Dennis

[RonB]

No Dennis, that is my big sister, I was told that I came along as an after thought The car belonged to my sister's husband who was in the air force at the time, he gave me the helmet & goggles.
The car is a 1939/40? Willys {knight?} The same company that built M-38 Jeeps for the military.

This is a picture of my mother and friends, she is the one with her hand under her chin. The house is the first that I can remember living in. It was a bunkhouse left over from the logging camp that was there years before.








My mother------ Don't take my picture, 'I don't have my shoes on!!











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[GrahamS]

Wonderful! Thanks for sharing these memories, Ron. Looks like a pretty healthy childhood to me.

[minoly]

Ron, I've really enjoyed looking at the pictures of your childhood home -- they're great records of a time and place. Glad to see those horses, too! That one that you're holding looks fairly young and lively. In that same photo, I can't quite figure out what's on the back of the dark horse behind you-- a pack I guess?

Bill Delehanty

[RonB]

Yes Bill, it was a pack string, going up to the fire lookout towers on the mountain.
That was a colt that I was holding, right after this photo was taken the darn thing bit me on the shoulder, got ahold of my bib overalls and shook me.

[RonB]

Myself and my dog Silver ----- late 1940s





Dick and Lady
All 4300 pounds of them.



Lucy and I bring home the groceries, Silver looking it over.

[RonB]

Goin Fishin
Babe in the straw hat, Mac with the rifle and Bill , the driver. Bill drove stage coach from St.Maries to Santa -Fernwood Idaho in his day.
The horse that is pulling the wagon was well over 20 years old, she would go till she tired, then stop for a breather and start again when 'she' was ready.
And here I thought all the hillbillies were from West Virginia

[PFMcFarland]

If there's a hill, there's a hillbilly nearby.

PF

[RonB]

Getting A Load Of Stove Wood To Town
About 1939-----

Big money @ $4.00 a cord.
My Dad on the tractor, my uncle behind.