Welcome to 2009 Hanford revisited.

Good Morning! and Welcome to 2009! DaddyKaos and I did the same thing last night that we have done for so long that the last time we remember doing something different was in 1969. That year we were down in Hollywood watching a movie called the "Rievers"t was a good movie. Steve McQueen, Mitch Vogel , Rupert Cross, Sharon Farrell, and Will Geer. It is a really cute movie. It took place in the early 1900s. A scamp (Steve McQueen) takes a young man (Mitch Vogel) on a trip through the south. Good fun as I remember. It is available on Netflix.

This year like all of the others we stayed home in our nice safe, cozy house. Going out on New Years Eve is for armatures. It is cray out there!

Sometime ago I wrote about my home town. A long time friend, Marcis B. , returned home for
Christmas and took a photo of Superior Dairy for me. Thank you very much Boo. Here it is:


I know that it doesn't look like much, but, there used to be trees on that blank looking side.

All of the buildings I mentioned earlier are located on a square. The old jail is just south west of the Dairy, the Courthouse is right to the west of the jail, the Old Fox Theater is across the street, west, from the Courthouse. The Civic Auditorium is across the square, north, from the Courthouse and Jail, which leads to the Dairy, just east across the street. The old library is just
1 block south and one block east of the jail. Close enough for a cone after the library visit.

My first job, other then babysitting, was at the Dairy. I worked there with my older sister, Linda. The Perry girls did their best to run that place when the old hands weren't there. We waited tables, made sandwiches and scooped ice cream. I usually ran the take-out counter on my shift. It was hopping on Friday and Saturday night, Sunday after church let out we were slammed.

We could eat all of the ice cream we wanted for free, bananas and nuts were extra. One of the favorite sundae type dishes was called "The Judge Special", it was named for the judge my Dad baliffed for. It was a banana split made with hot fudge and vanilla ice cream top with whipped cream and a cherry, nuts were extra. Oh, was that bad boy good. Of course at $1.50, it was the most expensive ice cream item on the menu.

The" nuts were extra" oh, know those little packets nuts? They didn't just jump into those bags, and they didn't grow on the tree that way either. Armed with a big box of crushed nuts, a teaspoon, little cellophane bags and a stapler, it was one of my jobs to fill those little bags, not to many nuts now, and set them in a box of bagged crushed nuts for the customers who asked for them.

Filling those nut bags and filling the freezers were my least favorite jobs. The manufacturing area was a big dark place, armed with a list and a cart we had to stock the freezers, so they would be full for the next day.

One the whole it was a good job, and I had the best shoulder and upper arm muscles in the business.