Late birthday post........
Child number three turned forty-four years old!! last Tuesday, May 14. I'm late posting but did get John's card mailed out on time. On that date in 1969, the last Chevy Corvair was built. Aquarius/Let the Sun shine In was a hit song. Gas was $0.35 a gallon, a dozen eggs cost $0.62, your first-class letter could be mailed for $0.06, the average cost of a new home was $27,900, and your income was $8,389.00.
John was a happy-go-lucky, good-natured baby, always smiling and pleasant. Once he could dress himself, he had Izod-golf-polo-shirts and Adidas-sneakers taste, but we had a K-mart budget. At 15, he got himself hired at the Deltona Country Club picking up golf balls and schmoozing with doctors and rich old retired men who generously tipped this energetic and ambitious teenager. With his earnings, he purchased an old 50cc motorcycle (legal at 15 on a learner's permit) which he drove wide open at 45 mph down Elkcam Blvd leaving a trail of black smoke behind him to the Country Club. Flat out again at 45 mph, the high-pitch whining of his little bike alerted us that he was coming up Elkcam on his way back home from work. This was the beginning up our upwardly mobile John.
Child number three turned forty-four years old!! last Tuesday, May 14. I'm late posting but did get John's card mailed out on time. On that date in 1969, the last Chevy Corvair was built. Aquarius/Let the Sun shine In was a hit song. Gas was $0.35 a gallon, a dozen eggs cost $0.62, your first-class letter could be mailed for $0.06, the average cost of a new home was $27,900, and your income was $8,389.00.
John was a happy-go-lucky, good-natured baby, always smiling and pleasant. Once he could dress himself, he had Izod-golf-polo-shirts and Adidas-sneakers taste, but we had a K-mart budget. At 15, he got himself hired at the Deltona Country Club picking up golf balls and schmoozing with doctors and rich old retired men who generously tipped this energetic and ambitious teenager. With his earnings, he purchased an old 50cc motorcycle (legal at 15 on a learner's permit) which he drove wide open at 45 mph down Elkcam Blvd leaving a trail of black smoke behind him to the Country Club. Flat out again at 45 mph, the high-pitch whining of his little bike alerted us that he was coming up Elkcam on his way back home from work. This was the beginning up our upwardly mobile John.
Grandpa John, Grandma Carolyn, Taelor holding Christopher, and Matthew
Happy late posting Birthday, John!!
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