The New Hero of this quiet N.J. town

[Sedalia Dave]

 

 

A guy riding a motorized horse is the new hero of this quiet N.J. town

[Blackwater 53393]

I used to live in the next town over from Cranford.  Kenilworth is situated in such a way that school busses for the Cranford school system had to travel straight up and down the main street of Kenilworth to get students to and from school.

 

In the winter when it snowed, the Cranford kids would taunt us because we had to walk to and from school in the snow and ice while they rode in nice warm busses.

 

After we knocked the windows out of several busses, they drove around our town in the winter.  We usually had plenty of snow piled along the streets all winter because the public works department would plow the streets and leave the snow along the sides.  They would then clear the sidwalks by piling that snow onto that which came from the strees. 

 

We made tunnels and forts all along the main drag!! There were snowball fights all winter along the streets. Public Works did haul snow away during blizzards, piling it in empty lots that belonged to the city.  When it warmed up in the spring, they’d break up the tunnels and speed the melting by salting and brining the remaining snow.

 

I remember one year in the early sixties when some of those snow piles in the city lots were still there in June!

 

Kenilworth was a simple place back then.  The streets were numbered and the main drag was named “Boulevard”. Not “The” Boulevard or “_____ Boulevard”.

It was just Boulevard!

 

 

[Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172]

Small towns are the best!   

[Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103]

Now by golly if I ever get to where I can't walk, that's the kind of power chair I'll have!
Think they'll let me shoot Mounted Division in my decrepit old age?

[South-Eye Ned]

When I was a boy of about 8 in Corpus Christi, TX, there was an old German man who would walk his great grandson to school....in his old German uniform, sans helmet, but wearing a black beret.  The school officials weren't upset with it.  My dad, who's brother lost his life to the Japanese in WWII, didn't even care.  It helped that there were no swastikas attached.   

[The Original Lumpy Gritz]

6 minutes ago, South-Eye Ned said:

When I was a boy of about 8 in Corpus Christi, TX, there was an old German man who would walk his great grandson to school....in his old German uniform, sans helmet, but wearing a black beret.  The school officials weren't upset with it.  My dad, who's brother lost his life to the Japanese in WWII, didn't even care.  It helped that there were no swastikas attached.   

Not all German military were Nazis.

This I know for fact, from my own family history. 

Respectfully,

OLG

 

[South-Eye Ned]

1 hour ago, The Original Lumpy Gritz said:

Not all German military were Nazis.

This I know for fact, from my own family history. 

Respectfully,

OLG

 

Well, given that I remember him to be rather dottering and possibly older than my own grandparents, he could have been a soldier from WWI.

[Alpo]

Take a look at that video, and tell if y'all saw it too.

 

Blew through a boulevard stop at 1:47.

[The Original Lumpy Gritz]

31 minutes ago, Alpo said:

Take a look at that video, and tell if y'all saw it too.

 

Blew through a boulevard stop at 1:47.

Wondered how long it was gonna that some one to post up about that bit of stupid.

 

OLG