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I wonder how many of us had autograph books when I we were kids. I had my share, but I don't know what happened to them. Just as well. By the 1950s, kids tended to write only their names without adding the silly poetry that made earlier autograph books so much fun.
This is Pauline Watson Barber Pallett's main book There is another, but it only has a few things in it.
I was going through old family photographs, most of which I uploaded a year ago. I came across the autograph book and thought my flickr buddies might get a kick out of it.
Please don't feel obligated to comment. I've been pretty busy, so I haven't been around to see.you. I'll try to rectify that somewhat next week.
I'll be going on vacation next weekend, so I'll be scarce for a bit.
Please enjoy these as I have, and if you'd like to add an autograph poem of your own, please put it in the comment box.
These pages were written in simpler times in small town Ontario. The surnames are English, Irish and Scottish ( with a bit of Welsh). The given names are certainly right out of the era.
Thanks, all, and take care.
It was 1982, and I was a single mom, and somewhat of a floozy. I was not into drugs nor being an alcoholic, though. Just lots of dancing, flirting and chocolate, and an occasional immoral, eccentric, but not illegal activity. Chocolate was one of my 4 food groups. In fact, I think it was 75% of my 4 food groups.
I had a very nice income without having to work. It covered rent and utilities and food, and some basic things like that. It did not however, cover things like $400 or $500 worth of car repair or another $470 worth of motorcycle repair. In one month’s time I had about $900 worth of transportation repair, and neither my car nor my motorcycle was running.
At a cocktail lounge and dance club called Foo’s in Eugene, Oregon, which is no longer in business, there was a braggart. Well, probably more than one braggart, but I am talking about one specific man there. He was frequently talking about how many wonderful buys on cars he had made, and that he had six cars in his driveway that he got for $100 or less, and made a big profit on. It felt to me like he was dangling steak in front of a starving dog.
I mentioned this to a man who was my friend, and said if that if someone were really my friend, they would find me a hundred dollar car. I could surely use one. He said that he would find me one. True to his word, he did. That evening I did not have $100; so I made a little chart of a thermometer like United Way might use, with a little sketch of a car at the top. I felt, rightly so, that it would be easier to ask 100 people for a dollar than to ask one person for a hundred dollars. I went around to my friends at Foo’s and asked if they could lend me a dollar toward the car, and told them I could pay them back in a few days.
I have covered their last names on my little chart for their privacy, not mine. This was nearly 30 years ago, and I don’t care. My little fund grew and grew and grew, and even went over $100. I joked that if I had known I had so many friends, I would have bought a Corvette.
I told my friends that I would pay them back next time I got paid. I think many of them thought, “Oh yeah, sure!” When I received my check for the month, I went to the bank and got 100 crisp new dollar bills. That night I went out with my list in hand, and got initials by as many people as were there. Some said never mind, it was a gift; and some were just mildly surprised that I intended to pay it back.
I had promised my lenders that when I got the car, I would get a bumper sticker made that said, “This Car Financed by 100 of My Friends.” There was a bumper sticker place in town that promised they could print anything; so that is what I did. It got a few laughs at stop lights and places like that. I also enjoyed surprising people who never thought I would really do that. I enjoy being somewhat eccentric in ways that pleasantly surprise people. That was my night to shine.
What I did buy was a 1969 Dodge. It was blue with a white racing striped wrapped around the trunk area. It had a white hard top. The biggest problem was that the driver’s door wouldn’t open. I had to crawl in the passenger side. For the great price on the car, that was a problem I could live with.
The most embarrassing time was when I had just started a new business, which is a different story, and drove up to a car dealership, and a salesman came out to greet me on the driver’s side. I had to tell him I would get out the other side. I felt kind of ridiculous, but I persevered. It struck me as funny how some people would act sort of ashamed on my behalf, but others would seem a bit impressed that I wasn’t flustered, and almost proud of me. I got out of my new car as if that were the way everyone did.
My progress chart is a real study in sociology. At least six people on it that I know of got married since then. At least one committed suicide. At least two died of cancer. One was murdered by her husband and her body thrown in the Long Tom River.
Eventually the car bit the dust, but even that was under unusual circumstances. I was on the way driving it to a wrecking yard. I took water for the radiator in the only big container I could find at the time. It was a Tupperware super large Fix ‘n Mix bowl, very awkward for pouring. It was also a ten dollar bowl which was a lot of money for me in 1982. I suspect now in this new millennium that they are $20 or $30. I had the title with me for the Dodge, fully expecting that I would not make it all the way to the wrecking yard. Sure enough, I didn’t. I had to be towed. I sold the car and only got $40 for it, and paid $7 for a cab ride back home. When I got home I realized I had left my Tupperware bowl in the back seat. I immediately called the wrecking yard and asked if they could get it and hold it for me until I could get out that way again. The manager told me, “Nah, that car has already been crushed!” I believed him, because I wasn’t experienced in the ways of wrecking yards; and because I wasn’t assertive enough at that time in my life to call him a liar. Well, they don’t crush cars within half hour of getting them. I think the manager’s girlfriend just got herself a nice kitchen bowl. I saw the very same car less than a year later on the road. They did not crush it!
My indignation over selling my car for basically $23 ($40 minus the bowl and the cab ride) led me to ideas about a new business. One could say that the end of my Dodge was the beginning of a new endeavor .
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Thermometer Chart, Pictures of It, and the story are all © 2011 by me, Dorothy Delina Porter
"F" is for Funding
I wrote to this gentleman and asked if I could use a picture he took of a car like the one in my story. He answered, and said it was OK. If you do go see his car picture, please leave a pleasant comment for him. I don't even know the man, and that is the least we could do.
The car is about the same as mine was except mine had full wheel covers and not center caps.
See photograph about 13 comments down.
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On August 18, 2019 I put this in my album about "Things with WHEELS - from toys to real vehicles, etc." not because it is a picture of something with wheels but because it is totally about buying a car with wheels.
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Some slightly more risque pictures from a night in at home.
Messy hair too, ha ha!
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- Chùa is Chó =;. Chùa biến dùm nha :'j
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Gemma came up to Hull for Hallowe'en weekend and we had a fantastic time!
Friday night we went to Cognac for divine French food then on to the Star where we had a great time! We got chatting to a couple of beautiful girls in costume - Charlotte and Sharon - and a random gay couple bought us a bottle of Prosecco becvause they thought we were awesome! How lovely is that? I mean, I don't drink so of course I couldn't have any but the gesture was just lovely.
This is the lovely Charlotte and Sharon.
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This is a shoot I did a few months ago for a friend.
For the first time ever I have noticed the flickr sharpening, and I hate it. To me, it looks like it doesn't sharpen it in lightbox, so press L on your keyboard to view it better!!
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Another glam night in at home. Well, in the absence of anything else these days, why not?
This dress has rapidly turned into one of my favourites - I love it!
However you are planning to spend it, I wish you all a wonderful weekend!
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Part of my Plants & Such Set - contains a few Time Lapse Videos too, come check it outs!
(if you're looking at this on fbook, you have to follow the link because it's a video....)
I've admittedly become not as interested in random time lapses as I was a year or two ago, but still enjoy small things here and there for sure. I've got loads of short sequences on my computer from the past couple years, but figured I'd post something recent. Took this last night while I was planting some prickly pear seeds and potting my new eggplant, tomato, & pepper plants.
The work I've done getting my yard out of complete disrepair has been fun and documenting little things along the road is a fun way to keep track of my progress and the steps it's taken to get to where I'm at.
Didn't take time to really edit the video much for flickr's 90 second requirement. Just kinda cut it short enough to fit. There is a bit of flickering, I've figured caused by the clouds against the moon because the camera was on manual settings. Sometimes you can only do so much :)
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I recently returned from my first trip to Big Bend. If you're interested, here's a link to some of the photos I took - - - My Big Bend Set - - -
And here's My Most Interesting Set
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"Down on the Corner" by Creedence Clearwater Revival
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Because of the ridiculous hotel prices over Jubille weekend, it was decided to move Leeds First Friday to the second Friday instead. And it was a very quiet weekend, not just for the event but Leeds itself was really quiet.
Hotel room selfie before heading out.
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