Claude LaVern Cripe, born 1892 - Part 5
[ NOTE - The following is transcribed from an audiotape recording made by Claude LaVern Cripe on July 4, 1967.]
[ PART 5 OF 6 ]
1953
Just before I - just before I retired I bought a 1953 Chevrolet [Claude pronounces it "Shiv oh lay"], from Mars Used Car Lot on Ottowa Street, Muskegon Michigan. The following year in March I retired. When I bought this Chevrolet it had 25 thousand miles on it. When I sold it in California it had 135 thousand miles on it. And I bought a Oldsmobile, 1956 that had 56 thousand miles on it. And it now has 96 thousand miles on it. So in that period of time, which is about 12 years, I and grandma have drove 150 thousand miles acrosst and around and over and under this United States of America.
What we have seen, from the Ohio West state line down to Florida, across to San Diego, and up as far as just below the Glacier National Park in Montana, isn’t very much– what we haven’t seen isn’t very much. All of these miles has been happy, and we have seen scenery - there isn’t any place in California very much that we haven’t been and especially in the northern and s -- around the Los Angeles area we have covered it like a cover covers a book. If that is possible. Heh!
One place we haven’t been is Disneyland and, the reason for that is my breathing capacity is not too good and it takes too much energy to get around it. But we’ve been to Marineland. We’ve saw the uh, the seals. The uh, the trained uh, uh whales. We’ve saw this - the uh --the fish that jump out of the water - the uh - the dolphins.
And we have, uh, we been to - went to uh Knotts – uh, Knott’s Berry Farm and there they have quite a few interesting things.
We were over to uh, Calico, where the silver mines used to be on 91. [Highway 91]
We’ve visited Las Vegas, stayed there for several months, lived there. And uh we played uh, quite a few of the one-armed bandits. Never carried anything away. Just spent a few dollars now and then. Once in a while we would pay for our eats by gambling. Once Gramma paid for her uh, motel room and our eats. But uh that’s about all you can win, you always lose, never carry nothin’ away.
We made a trip with uh, Henry Sheffler one time. We traveled from uh, from Lombard Illinois to Eugene Oregon and the route we took, it was just over six thousand miles. Now if you think we didn’t go north and if you think we didn’t go south and all around the country, then (heh) you got another thing coming because we did!
And we covered everything in the West from, the uh, Mount Rushmore to the uh, Wyoming, uh park where the uh, great geyser Old Faithful spouts off, clear down to the uh, uh Farmers’ Market in Los Angeles ["Los Angeleeez"] California.
Uh. We finally wound up in Eugene Oregon where his brother was very bad sick with Parkinson’s disease. There I left him, and he went back to Lombard by plane.
[ PART 5 OF 6 ]
1953
Just before I - just before I retired I bought a 1953 Chevrolet [Claude pronounces it "Shiv oh lay"], from Mars Used Car Lot on Ottowa Street, Muskegon Michigan. The following year in March I retired. When I bought this Chevrolet it had 25 thousand miles on it. When I sold it in California it had 135 thousand miles on it. And I bought a Oldsmobile, 1956 that had 56 thousand miles on it. And it now has 96 thousand miles on it. So in that period of time, which is about 12 years, I and grandma have drove 150 thousand miles acrosst and around and over and under this United States of America.
What we have seen, from the Ohio West state line down to Florida, across to San Diego, and up as far as just below the Glacier National Park in Montana, isn’t very much– what we haven’t seen isn’t very much. All of these miles has been happy, and we have seen scenery - there isn’t any place in California very much that we haven’t been and especially in the northern and s -- around the Los Angeles area we have covered it like a cover covers a book. If that is possible. Heh!
One place we haven’t been is Disneyland and, the reason for that is my breathing capacity is not too good and it takes too much energy to get around it. But we’ve been to Marineland. We’ve saw the uh, the seals. The uh, the trained uh, uh whales. We’ve saw this - the uh --the fish that jump out of the water - the uh - the dolphins.
And we have, uh, we been to - went to uh Knotts – uh, Knott’s Berry Farm and there they have quite a few interesting things.
We were over to uh, Calico, where the silver mines used to be on 91. [Highway 91]
We’ve visited Las Vegas, stayed there for several months, lived there. And uh we played uh, quite a few of the one-armed bandits. Never carried anything away. Just spent a few dollars now and then. Once in a while we would pay for our eats by gambling. Once Gramma paid for her uh, motel room and our eats. But uh that’s about all you can win, you always lose, never carry nothin’ away.
We made a trip with uh, Henry Sheffler one time. We traveled from uh, from Lombard Illinois to Eugene Oregon and the route we took, it was just over six thousand miles. Now if you think we didn’t go north and if you think we didn’t go south and all around the country, then (heh) you got another thing coming because we did!
And we covered everything in the West from, the uh, Mount Rushmore to the uh, Wyoming, uh park where the uh, great geyser Old Faithful spouts off, clear down to the uh, uh Farmers’ Market in Los Angeles ["Los Angeleeez"] California.
Uh. We finally wound up in Eugene Oregon where his brother was very bad sick with Parkinson’s disease. There I left him, and he went back to Lombard by plane.
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