Posted by fixerupper on March 09, 2018 at 09:54:50 from (100.42.94.143):
In Reply to: Grandpa's T. posted by Goose on March 09, 2018 at 07:26:12:
A lady I knew who would be in her upper 90's if she was still alive talked about coming to Pomeroy Iowa from Clinton Oklahoma in a model T when she was a girl. This would have been sometime in the early thirties. Her dad put a box on the back of the T, put all of their possessions in and took off for Iowa with his wife and two kids, one of the kids being this lady I knew. She said they slept under the stars when darkness came. She said one time the car broke down and her dad lifted the engine out under a tree, throwing a rope over a tree limb. While he was fixing the car she and her brother played in the open prairie. I feel privileged to have lived around some of these folks who had to rough it back in those days because there wasn't anything better. There were no handouts, they had to do whatever they could do to make a living.
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