Here we're all dressed up in our new school clothes and ready to go to the first day of school. I never liked those flannel-lined jeans. They itched, especially when they got wet.
Monday, May 29, 2006
School Daze
I never went to kindergarten. The polio epidemic was hitting Alaska hard when we arrived, so they kept me home and Mom taught me to read.
Here we're all dressed up in our new school clothes and ready to go to the first day of school. I never liked those flannel-lined jeans. They itched, especially when they got wet.
Here we're all dressed up in our new school clothes and ready to go to the first day of school. I never liked those flannel-lined jeans. They itched, especially when they got wet.
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Hmm, so the flannel lining matches the shirt! That must have been a fashion trend before my time!
I should know all this stuff, but I'll ask anyway. So was this about 1953 or 54? And were you up there to help Carl start a church?? How long were you up there? When did the earthquake strike? What did Helge do for money?
OK, the earthquake was March 27, 1964 (Good Friday). Was anyone up there that we know at the time?
Dan you must have been serious about school even as a youngster. Steve looks like he had a cartoon in the back of his mind.
I remember those pants. I think they were meant to be worn 24/7 as flannel pajamas at night and then as blue jeans for school during the day. Mothers liked them because boys would have half as many dirty clothes that needed washing.
The Lindmans moved to Ak in '52 to try and plant a BGC church. In the summer of '54 when I had just turned 5 we followed them to help. They were, at the time, half done building the church - named Bethany Baptist - after the church in Duluth where Carl spent his boyhood. (Grandma Lindman and Carl's sister Inez attended Bethany all their lives.) Carl was a good friend of my Dad's. I'm not sure if that happened before or after Carl married his sister. My Dad worked as a mechanic at the local Ford dealer. I believe Helge's education ended in the seventh grade.
Oops, forgot to finish the story. We came out once in the summer of '56 to visit relatives and lived in a trailer in the back of what eventually became our Mineral Street house. Steve tells me that Ollie and Esther were living there in '56. Carl resumed his pastorate in Pillager in '58 and so we all moved back then taking the long route through Banff, Glacier, Seattle, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, then home.
Mark, You are funny :-D
Dan, Thanks for filling in the holes!
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