I'm not sure what to tell you about sjgardiner that you can't glean from his photos. Well, there was that one time when he decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So he tied an onion to his belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in tho… Read more

I'm not sure what to tell you about sjgardiner that you can't glean from his photos. Well, there was that one time when he decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So he tied an onion to his belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em. ‘Give me five bees for a quarter,’ you’d say. Now where were we? Oh yeah - the important thing was he had an onion on his belt, which was the style at the time. They didn’t have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...