Brag Blog

1/30/2011

What do you love most about Transcona?! Think of this as our brag book to tell everyone what we like about Transcona. We'll gather everyones opinions and then put them to a vote for the Top 100!

40 Comments

Denise Young link

1/30/2011 05:31:17 am

I love that Transcona is a distinct and thriving community in Winnipeg that thrives on its differences.
1. I love the flamingos (maybe cause I'm a FlightyFlamingo?)
2. I love transcona socials
3. I love that I could get pretyy near anything I want or need within the boundaries of Transcona.

Trena Oleksuk

1/30/2011 04:26:04 pm

I grew up in Transcona and met the most WONDERFUL people I would consider myself priveleged to meet. So so so many fond memories! Don't know where to begin! Having moved to the West Coast and met many people, they are all sure to remark how "Winnipeggers" are a FINE group of people! Not only am I a proud Winnipegger, I am a proud TRANSCONIAN! Transcona will always be my home and feels like "home" whenever I visit. Park Circle, so many memories~ Arthur Day Junior High ~ Wow ~ Many memories ~ Murdoch Mackay ~ Tange ~ Transcona Lanes ~ Max Katz ~ Blosteins ~ My Life. Transcona!!!

Paul Schram link

2/3/2011 01:25:48 am

I only lived in Transcona for four years, from January 1970 to June 1974. Growing up because of my dad's job I'd already lived in about 5 cities on Ontario before we moved to Transcona. Then we moved back to Ontario. Of all the cities I lived in growing up, my fondest memories are of Transcona. I used to love the winters when we would skate on the streets, let alone the skating rinks my dad would make in the back yard that would actually last from November to Easter. Transcona was the best four years of my life. Someday I'd like to come back.

Marg

2/4/2011 07:50:40 pm

Having lived in Toronto and Los Angeles, I moved to Transcona in 1975 and it is by far and away the best place of all. The hometown flavour, extremely friendly people, parks, 'socials', 'dainties'...all part of the Transcona love. I have finally come HOME!

gail

2/11/2011 10:34:18 am

i lived in transcona all my single life and loved the club houses and the dancing in them 3 nights a week and skating where we had to shouvel befor we skated and how many jackets did you burn on the old wood stoves i did at least three, and the kids and people were the friendlest in the world. i miss it so much but not the mosquietos and shoveling the snow ha ha

Don Bruce

2/20/2011 11:20:56 am

Riding the old White Ribbon Bus Line buses to downtown Winnipeg to shop at Eatons and Hudson Bay or to go swimming at Sherbrook Pool.

Karen Nielsen link

3/30/2011 10:53:33 am

What I loved most about growing up in Transcona was that we used to play hide and go seek or tag in the neighborhood, and nobody was afraid. Our parents just told us to be in when the street lights came on and they didn't have to worry about someone snatching us up off of the street, plus everybody looked out for everybody else's kids. That was the neighborly way it was back then... Ahhh the good ole days!

Helen Torchia

4/5/2011 09:04:52 am

I remember the Milk man , the bread man, the drycleaner who all came to your door. The ice Boxes and the man who came weekly with a large block of ice to put in our ice box.
I remember the cinder sidewalks, the wooden sidewalks, the cars that parked on the boulevards side ways in front of our home on Pandora, floating down Pandora ditch on a wooden raft that the Boychuk boys had built. Looking for minnows in that ditch

Walking to the tracks at the end of day street to Take the train to Grand beach. The orange Crush in the dark brown bottles we could purchase on the train.
Wooden stoves in the kitchen for mom to cook dinner on. Cloths lines hung across the kitchen in the winter, the smell of home made bread when we came home from school. Dances at the East End Community Club, The East End Carnivals. There is no place like Transcona. The bonds that we have built with one another are special.

I feel so blessed to have been born in that era & It was a special time. Those who did well for themselves have never forgotten where they have come from and always give back in some way or another. That is what we were taught by our parents. Hard working, loyal, honest people. How lucky we were?

Being poor sure never hurt us did it?

bob Frandsen

2/11/2012 06:33:34 am

I agree,what a great place to grow up in ,I will always have a soft spot in my heart for Transcona ,the oxford grill roberts drug store , joes pool room some good memories.

Judy Starr

3/2/2012 08:18:01 am

Do you remember the milk whips at Roberts Drugs? I am looking for the recipe.

Diana McGhee

6/4/2012 02:20:41 am

Your brother was Daryl? A guitar player that used to play with my brother Rick, (bass)?
We lived on Berwyn Bay in the west end and also played in the ditch and on the tracks.

Happy Centennial TC! Wow.
Diana McGhee

Nancy

5/6/2011 02:22:31 am

I am a proud Transconian!!! Growing up in East Transcona was a wonderful time.
Terry Fox was in my grade 2 class at Wayoata School. I remember skating every night at East End Community Club. Going to Kinsman Pool in the summer and spending all day there, then going to Dairy Queen for an ice cream. Going to socials at Assumption and Blessed Sacrement. Saying "Hi Neighbor" to the people you met, during the aptly named festival. It was a great time and look back on it fondly!!

Darcy Dennis

6/19/2011 02:00:41 am

I am proud to say that the best years of my life were the ones growing up in transcona,from playing hockey outdoors at oxford heights CC,or the other outdoor rinks back then.Going to socials every weeekend at the various church halls,hanging out at the tange or the dairy queen and remembering all the great friends i made from school and hockey they were special times and are fondly remembered everytime i go to visit people in the great place known as transcona.

gloria kocian

5/26/2012 07:03:32 pm

Those were the days :)

Rob McDonald link

7/1/2012 12:44:18 am

Hey Darcy, we used to play scrub hockey at the old Oxford Heights. I hope that all is GREAT for you!

Pamela Ainge

9/25/2011 07:41:31 am

Growing up in Transcona in the 50’s and 60’s was wonderful – a small town on the outskirts of a big city (now just a suberb of course). We had everything, or at least we thought we did. It was a family town and most of us could walk to grandparents and cousins.

Tramscona was always safe. My mother never thought twice about sending me eight blocks downtown by myself to get a quart of milk from Safeway. With my best friend Nancy (we both lived on Harvard) we would walk two blocks to Kildare then we had miles of open fields to wander, looking for pussy willows or butterflies. Or we could wander to the east end of Whittier to her Grandparents’ and play with the fish in the pond. As long as our Moms knew we were together, we just had to be home in time for dinner. Often we would each have ten cents to spend so we would go to the Nitelite for the best chips in the world and next door to Robert’s Drug Store for a lime soda – and of course we shared. It was so safe that I often trotted down back lanes to the “Mapes” to go skating when it wasn’t even open – just me and the stars.

Lots of great childhood memories:
 For five cents I remember being able to buy Lime Crush, Fudgicles, Popcicles, potato chips, DQ ice cream cones. (I guess that’s where my passion for food started, although the content now is somewhat different.)
 Saturday (Sunday?) afternoon matinees at the Maple Leaf Community Club. Admission was 10¢, popcorn was 10¢ for a large bag, 5¢ for a small bag, and if you really didn’t have much money, 3¢ for a napkin full.
 Apollo theatre. I was never old enough to go on Friday nights – that was for my brother’s crowd. But Saturday afternoon was for kids.
 Summer days spent at the Kinsman pool – it seemed so big in those days days
 Climbing trees – always allowed

It was pretty difficult to get in trouble in those days. For one thing, we actually listened to our parents – at least most of the time. Besides if you did do something wrong, sure enough someone would recognize one of you and report to your parents. On Saturdays during the winter, I went with my cousins, Jane and Susan, to Sherbrooke Pool in “the City” for swimming and gymming lessons. We were eight and nine and were allowed to travel by bus by ourselves. Of course we had very strict instructions and didn’t dare miss the bus.

I could go on but I will leave the rest for others to share.

Ted Jeninga

12/18/2011 05:48:58 am

Growing up as a young person in Transcona I couldn't fully appreciate my community because there was nothing else to compare it too. It is only upon reflection and having other experiences that the community of Transcona's role in shaping me as to who I am becomes significant. There is something special about Transcona being a company town in that the importance of the CN was clear. Watching the migration of the workers going to work in the mornings and returning in the evening made a permanent impression on me. While my own family did not work at the CN I somehow felt the fact that that company was the pulse of the town. People went off to work, nothing fancy, did their job, went home and coached their kid's hockey team or played mixed softball on the corner lot.

I did not realise the uniqueness of the community in that we were so separate from the city of Winnipeg and that that was significant in instilling a pride and loyalty for those of the community. The hockey teams, the football teams and even the high school sports teams were viewed, by the Winnipeg groups, as coming from the"sticks". While I didn't always appreciate that label and did result in the Transcona boys being Transcona boys.
Many long standing family names remain within the community, some because they have never had the opportunity to move elsewhere, but others simply because they have such fond memories.
Walking to the Dairy Queen, eating at the Oxford Grill, playing at the Pirates CC on Regent, Max Katz's and Blostein's stores, the Fruit Home, using the back roads to get to the Oasis, the old bowling alley at Regent and Day, shopping at Shop Easy, Dr. Grace, Hi Neighbor Festival, Jubee's Bicycle Repair Shop, Bill's Inn, going to the Horse Pond, buying a car at Transcona Motors, seeing a movie at the Starlight Drive Inn and the list goes on.
Times have changed many of those things but roots are roots and Transcona provided me with experiences that made my child years rich, safe and fun.
You knew most of the people, you had your scraps with some and you played football with others. You raided one person's crabapple tree and the next guys garden but you also went out to shovel the neighbour's walk when he needed the help. You helped people across the street, usually returned something that you found that was lost and you moved over when a car came during a road hockey game.
It was and is a community.
Happy 100th Anniversary

Jim Guszuwaty

12/28/2011 02:56:11 pm

Well Ted, you just about summed it up.
Transcona was a community unto itself.Your parents never feared for their children's safety.Everyone seemed to know everyone back then.I grew up in the centre of Transcona on Melrose west.A block over from Regent between Bond and Day streets.I went to Central,both Arthur Days and Murdoch. Spent my early years playing at the playgrounds Yale and Central. Walked Regent avenue. Ate chips and chocolate milk at the Nite Lite. Sodas at Roberts Drugs. Bought candy at the
book store and do you remember Joe's confectionary. From morning till night our parents never worried.Later I worked at the Transcona lanes,setting pins for Leon Checryn the owner. Worked at the tangerine billiards and also pumped gas at Transcona Motors for Harry Sucharov.Played bantam football for the Nationals. I remember when they brought in the shuttle bus that would circle the city and made attending Murdoch much more easier. Ther were the snow forts and hills of snow in the parking lots of the Shop Easy we played on.We would play hockey in the streets all day long with chunks of snow to mark the net. we would even play on Pandora ditch till it thawed and would somtimes get a booter,remember that. How about Garbos from Joe Blosteins.I could go on and on about Transcona and its niche in my early years. So I will. As I grew up,it was muscle cars,the Pandora Inn six nights a week. Then to the Dub for a pappa burger and fries or the Sals for breakfast.Transcona had everything.
I moved in 1978 and have been back numerous times,since I still have family there. I make a point of walking the streets,and although much has changed alot hasn't. water still puddles in the same places it did when I was young. people are still just as freindly and willing to sit and chat. I feel that when I visit with old freinds and we go to the Pandora or the George for a beer,it may be 2012 but the memories of my years in Transcona are so vivid it seem like I never left. Happy 100th birthday Transcona

karin (Lade) Jollimorre

1/31/2012 12:04:42 pm

Jim and Ted, you both have brought back fond memories of the Transcona that I always love. I too, still have family there and feel home whenever we are there. My daughters were raised in Calgary but their summers belonged to Transcona and they spend as much time back home as they can. I know the reason my eldest daughter moved back was so she could raise her family in the same friendly atmosphere that she spent growing up. I love our Transcona and all that entails.

tim demare

1/7/2012 09:22:45 am

Rob McDonald link

6/13/2012 01:38:58 am

Hey Tim, we played hockey together in the early 70s. I hope that life is treating you well. Get in touch if you would like to catch up. - Rob McDonald

Rob McDonald link

6/13/2012 02:04:03 am

I had the privilege of growing up for the first 15 years of my life at 135 McMeans Avenue East across the back lane from what was then Oxford Heights Community Club, where there were up to three hockey rinks. It will always be one of the truly special times of my life with many good friends, cherished hockey, football & baseball memories. I dreaded our family move across Winnipeg to Charleswood in the summer of 1975 but enjoyed playing hockey against my old friends from Transcona right up to The Manitoba Major Junior Hockey League when I played for The Charleswood Hawks.

I attended The University of Manitoba getting a Commerce degree in accounting in 1982 and moved to Calgary where I became a Chartered Accountant and I'm now self-employed as a Canadian Expatriate Tax Consultant - www.canadianexpatriatetax.com for the past 19 years.

Aside from any old friends that I would love to hear from, my favorite teacher in my entire life was Mr. Stone who taught music at Central School in the late 60s/early 70s. At a recent show at the end of the above link, I dedicated the performance of "Come Together" to him as the song reminded me of his class which helped foster a love of music - especially The Beatles - and I started a tribute band a few years back which represented Canada at International Beatles Week, performing at The Cavern Club in Liverpool, UK in August of 2010. If anyone could bring his attention to the above You Tube video link off of my website, I would be very grateful as I would very much like him to know how I felt about his class.

I will always be grateful for the wonderful start to my life in Transcona. Godspeed everyone and say hello if you would like to catch up.

Shirley (Patterson) Chervinski

2/26/2012 07:42:22 am

I moved to Transcona in 1941 and have been there ever since. I went to Central School and graduated from grade 11 in 1952. I then went to work at the Bank of Toronto at the corner of Regent and Bond.
Transcona was a very friendly place where I made many friends and have kept them to this day!
As a young kid I had a 12 cent/week allowance , which covered the cost of a movie at the Apollo Theater. As a teenager ,every Friday night was called Canteen Night (school dance)----I never missed !!
Transcona was , and is, a great place to live !!

Carole (Venn) Smythe

2/27/2012 10:52:07 am

Shirley,

My Dad Carl Venn was the manager of The Bank of Toronto 1951 - 1953. Do you remember working for him? My mother Mabel Venn worked for him at the bank as well as for Peter Chemago who became the manager in 1954.. As a family, we lived above the bank.

Shirley (Patterson) Chervinski

3/4/2012 08:41:32 am

Yes I did work for your dad.

Marisa DeMarchi

4/6/2012 01:23:58 pm

Hi Shirley - Good post! I'm in town right now (Easter Long Weekend) and started reading these posts at my girlfriend's place. Contact me at patr@cogeco.net.

Carole (Venn) Smythe

3/5/2012 08:48:54 am

Some of my memories of living in Transcona (1951 - 1955)

Roberts Drugs in Transcona at 127 Regent Ave. West had a soda fountain where we would go after school and buy an ice cream soda for 20 cents.

We bowled 5 pins at the Transcona Bowling Alley. They were wooden pins and a pin boy set them up.

On Friday nights, we went to the Apollo Movie Theatre at a cost of 25 cents. We sat in the 7th. row from the front at age 12 - 13 and then in the last row at age 14 - 15. After the movie, we went to the Oxford Grill on Oxford St. for fries and played tunes on the juke box which was located in the booth. Sometimes we would go to the Nite Lite Cafe on Regent St. for a creme soda pop and french fries.

In the winter, we walked to the Pirates Community Club, which had an outdoor ice rink, skated for awhile, warmed up in front of a pot bellied stove in “the shack” and then walked home.

We played a lot of “sandlot baseball”.

On Saturdays, with my 25 cents allowance, I bought a comic and a popsicle.

We would go to the Red & White Grocery store on Regent St. The butcher was at the back of the store. We also obtained cut and wrapped meat at Transcona Meats & Locker Plant, 123 Regent Ave. E., owned by Lawrence Polson.

We took the bus (White Ribbon Bus Lines Ltd.) into Winnipeg for swimming lessons at the Y. You had to wear the swimming pool’s bathing suits - black one piece wool ones that stretched out of shape as soon as you got them wet and were very itchy. Only girls were allowed in the pool together. The boys swam at a different time - no bathing suits.

As a family, we often went to Assiniboine Park in Winnipeg for picnics. We also went to Bird’s Hill gravel pit to swim, have barbecues and let off fireworks.

When television first came to Transcona, we would go to the local store and watch it through the window, although most of the time it was just “snow”.

I remember Hallowe’en as a night when all the kids could go from house to house to “trick or treat” without having to have their parents along. We never got a treat without doing a trick first.

Sadie Hawkins night used to be a fun night to see all the “older” teens and young adults lining up at the movie theatre. The girls would ask the boys out on a date and make corsages for them to wear. They were made of anything and everything and the bigger the better, often hanging down to the ground.

Wilgosh link

3/6/2012 10:50:34 pm

I lived in transcona for the better 3/4's of my life. Transcona is a magical place where children grow up un-afraid of the outdoors. Hide and seek, Street hockey, football, skateboarding. People feel safe, and thats what a community should be! Transcona has the best people too. Friendly, and nice. The girls are hot and thats always a plus! My favorite times in transcona were the hi neighbor festival, but not on regent, there were a few years when we held it at crocus hill. Beer gardens in the skatepark, some teenager lighting the hill on fire, ahhh those were the days. LOVE YOU TRANSCONA!!!

varlen brailsford

3/12/2012 05:22:28 am

wonderful times 1942-56 .moved to t.0. lived at 336 regent st. w. 3 brothers bob,bill jack, and sister rhona. Parents were known as mr. and mrs. B.

Brian Carriere

4/4/2012 03:52:55 pm

I grew up here. I love Transcona. I love the friendly people. As a child, I loved being able to walk down the street in the morning on the way to school and hear the birds singing. I loved playing hockey on the outdoor rinks, and soccer in the fields. I loved playing outside regardless of the season. I loved being able to ride my bike anywhere, not worrying about traffic, and sometimes sneaking off to the dirt trails just north of Larche Avenue East. I loved bowling “just down the street”. At night I loved hearing the train whistles blow as I lay in bed, in summer with the window open, in winter as I listened to the Winnipeg Jets games on the radio.

As a teenager I loved the school dances and hearing loud music for the first time. I loved being able to go to the Starlite Drive-in or take the bus into “the city” to see a movie. I loved being able to hang out at the Tangerine or the 7 Eleven, wasting countless quarters on video games and Slurpees. I loved Junior’s burgers, Dairy Queen’s cones, and the Half-Moon Drive-in’s fries. I loved that you could walk anywhere and end up in a park. As I grew older I loved the socials that you could always walk to: Oxford Heights, East End, and the Assumption Hall. I loved the local bars with all the regulars where people knew each other by name. I loved the Hi Neighbour Festival where you always saw someone you knew that you hadn’t seen in ages.

I grew up and I moved away. Transcona is the place I love returning to. Transcona is home. I love driving or walking down the streets and reminiscing, noticing all the changes, sometimes in amazement, sometimes in sad retrospect, but always with a smile. I love the memories. I love the friendly people. I love Transcona. One day I hope to move back.

Russ Donnelly

4/16/2012 08:51:33 am

What's not to love? Growing up we had great schools, great parks, great community clubs - as we got older we had the Central, the Princess, the Pandora and the Oak...Captain Chicken, Juniors, DQ, the old bowling alley...lots of excellent memories!

Laurie (Van der Graaf) Chilelli

4/16/2012 10:22:11 am

After reading the many comments. I do remember East End Community Centre Hockey Teams, and especially swimming at the Transcona Public Swimming Pool and Skating at Roland Michener Arena. Playing "Statues" in my front yard and cutting through Arthur Day High School to get to Mac's for a drink. The Birthday Parties with all of our friends on the street.

I was blessed to have so memories and great friendships that have lasted many years and many years to come. Thank You Transcona!!!

Jeffery Berrie

4/23/2012 05:27:17 pm

Wow, Transcona. 100 years! My grandfather moved to Melrose East in 1912 and my dad built a home across the back lane on Pandora Ave. I remember so much about so many great things. The CNR whistle and walking through the CN yards to go to South Transcona, the Regent and Kildare bus routes that went up Wayoata. I played hockey in the old outdoor rink at East End Community Club where we shoveled the snow from the ice by hand. We played hide and seek a thousand times on the corner of Pandora and Leola and bought French fries and Coke in a bottle from Bills Inn. There was a tree at the bend in the back lane between Pandora and Melrose near Leola where we climbed and sat and talked and dreamed. I learned to skate and play hockey on the ice at East End. I remember the many Saturdays when we would watch John Wayne movies sitting on the floor at the club and only paid a dime for the movie and a dime for the popcorn. One night the roof caved in under all the snow. We played marbles in the school yards at Wayoata and Central School and discovered the underground tunnel linking Central School with the old Arthur Day on Day St. I remember the church bell of the old Anglican church on Park Circle where the minister pulled the rope to ring the bell each Sunday morning. As kids we played in the ditches in the spring and floated rafts in the flooded fields at the CNR. So many good memories; it was a great place to grow up and then to raise my own kids. We were four generations in Transcona with a billion good memories.

Jim Douglas

5/19/2012 12:19:42 am

Tcona people are among the best, Hi Neighbour Festivals, just needed a little more cash, road hockey, Pirates CC (Saturday afternoon movies, Dal's Pizza, The Tang (Heinz, best friend to dozens), Blostein's (Mitch & Stella) could have been on TV today with characters like Cooch, Gally, Domino, Bongo, D&S Service, Dave & Don best mechanic shop I ever encountered, where else could you have a shot at the end of hard week while you square up your bill & chat with friends, Transcona socials, Cooch Cup New Year's Day if you were lucky enough to be on the invite list, greatest almost fixed ball hockey tournament held at the Winnipeg Arena, Central School where I met the other half of the town, since I grew up in the West End, Chase, a game that we developed from Hide & Seek, sleeping in tents & staying up all night looking for the Machine spraying malathion, brilliant weren't we, 6 man football with Brain Golding, the man who taught me the most about the game, East End Arena, never did get to join the Mansion Gang a short dream when I was young, Pandora, where Friday nights usually ended before they got started, you can interpret that a few ways, Oxford Grill, fine dining for some, Book Store, where I honed my pinball skills, Millie, nicest lady who lived across the street...that's all my hard drive can muster for now!

Diana McGhee

6/4/2012 02:56:32 am

Wow! This hundred years of TC thing really brought people out of the "woodwork" and it really takes me back home. I don't know if Transcona is more special than other places to have grown up in, but, to us, it is because having read all the stuff that some of you have written about growing up there, I remember it all. It's nice to know that other people in the world are still "home" or at least, remember it fondly as I do.

The "Mapes", the Pirates, the GEORGE, (not mentioned so far), but The Pandora was and also, what about Joe Blostiens? That was a great store...the CN shops; the ditch where i used to play and catch tadpoles and hatch them in to frogs and then let them go...all gone - Curtains farm? - anybody remember that? Native prairie with Meadow Larks nests that you knew would be there because you could hear them as the first sign of spring - clay holes - monkey bar park and here's' the kicker - I have pictures sent by my mother to England of the March 1966 snowstorm when the snow was literally up to the rooftops on Berwyn Bay.

Regent Park Shopping Centre, "Jacks"?...and of course, I, too remember the best chips 'n gravy at the OG or, mabye the Sals at Crossroads when I used to go "cruisin" with Jimmi in his Van...and whaddabout the guy with the hearse? What was his name? It said "Drop Dead on the side...in red...I was about 15.

So, that's all for now...guess I got some stuff to look back on and still keep in touch with lotsa good folks from TC who will remember it all.

Johnney & Moe & Brian and V

Bye for now,
Coming for a short vist from Oman soon.
All the best to all you 'ol TC'ns who remember those daze...D xxx ooo Mc...

Diana McGhee

6/4/2012 02:59:32 am

Brenda T.

7/29/2012 08:59:01 am

Many memories for the short 7 years I lived there. Great people and you were one of them.
We felt free and and not afraid to walk the streets at night. Great music also to remember those times.

Terry Thompson

6/28/2012 11:10:51 pm

I have now lived outside of Transcona longer than I lived there, yet everyone I know calls me a transconian, and you know it has never bothered me. I see people I grew up with and it may be 20 or 30 years since I'd seen them last and it's like time has stood still, we seem to pick up where we left off. People automatically assume if there is someone from Transcona that I must know them. There are way too many memories to put in a Blog and I think the only people that truly know what it was like to grow up there is us. Everyone else can stay jealous of what we have. My most favourite memory is the smell of hot tar, somehow it makes me remember the smell of the heaters at Pirate CC on Regent and all the fun I had playing and coaching hockey there. Finding things at Blosteins, going for a whistle dog, playing at Train Park (someone should have the name of that park officially changed) riding down Murdocki hill on a crazy carpet, getting pizza at Dals, listening to the Pipe Band practice... way too many memories for one Blog...

Kim Veevers ( Aspin )

6/30/2012 02:44:11 pm

Living on Brelade Street, farmer Clay's farm and field was right behind us. We built tree forts in the big trees and had fun playing in the bushes. At night we would get together and play "ghost in the graveyard" ( hide and seek at night ) in his bushes. Is was so spooky then! and safe to be out at night.
We could never figure out why farmer Clay would get upset at us for playing in his crop fields stomping down the wheat........
Then there was the times we would torture the poor night security guards at Coop Implement. We would knock on the door when he was on his rounds, run into the ditch and hide and of course there was no one there by the time he got there. Harmless fun......

Bruce

11/22/2012 01:49:52 am

Hockey at Mapes, football in train park, bike rides all over, Blosteins, midnight bowling, and especially Dal's pizza

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