Bio: Fisher, Bill
Transcriber:
stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org
Surnames: Fisher, Thompson, Horn, Hanna, Machlett
----Source: Family Scrapbook
"I have fine reminiscences of our boyhood days when it was so much fun to walk
the roads barefoot in the summer with the dust oozing up between our toes.
I will never forget the first time I became conscious of sophisticated
civilization in other areas of our beloved country. A large, open touring car
detouring from the historic Yellowstone Trail, just south of town, stopped at
old Machlett's hardware Store for additional gasoline which the store then
carried in limited amounts in five gallon cans, in contrast to the modern
filling stations. The occupants of the car were a family attired in the usual
linen dusters and visor caps. Immediately, a group of youngsters came to see the
strangers. The girl in the back seat, about our age, seemed equally as
interested in us natives. When I saw her stare at my bare feet, I perceived
somehow there was a class distinction and I must have blushed vividly through my
suntan. The next day without revealing why to my chums, Alfred and Ralph Horn
and schoolmates Minnie Thompson, Dorothy Horn, Elizabeth Hanna and others, my
barefoot days were over."
Submitted by: Bill Fisher
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