Entries from December 2004
My dad worked at the local International Harvester agricultural implement plant in Memphis for many years, and was a part of the movement that eliminated “Jim Crow” at that plant back in the fifties. One of the men Daddy worked with was a slow talking, hard drinking boiler operator by the name of Tommy Moore.
Tommy was the first guy I ever saw water ski on one slalom ski. He could grab hold of a light pole and suspend his body out in the air horizontally from it. He taught me to drive when I was 12, letting me drive his Corvair up at Pickwick Resevoir back in the early sixties. He took me squirrel hunting in Brownsville, and introduced me to a cute little country girl named “Madeline” I still wonder about yet today.
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My dad worked at the local International Harvester agricultural implement plant in Memphis for many years, and was a part of the movement that eliminated “Jim Crow” at that plant back in the fifties. One of the men Daddy worked with was a slow talking, hard drinking boiler operator by the name of Tommy Moore.
Tommy was the first guy I ever saw water ski on one slalom ski. He could grab hold of a light pole and suspend his body out in the air horizontally from it. He taught me to drive when I was 12, letting me drive his Corvair up at Pickwick Resevoir back in the early sixties. He took me squirrel hunting in Brownsville, and introduced me to a cute little country girl named “Madeline” I still wonder about yet today.
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