Keiths Corner

This photo was probably taken in the 1950s.The cowboy is none other than Billy Franks. He lived in Cherry Creek for many years and later moved to McGill and worked at the McGill Dairy. When the Dairy closed, Billy stayed on and worked for James Bell, who leased the Dairy from KCC.I worked there one summer, along with my brother Paul and young Jimmy Bell. We worked the … [Read more...] about McGill Club Patrons of Old

Last week, I wrote about living on $1 an hour in the 1950s. I got emails from folks that were stunned by the food prices at the Club 50, also gas prices.Their reaction stimulated some of the old die hard memory cells that still lurk in the dark areas of that grey convoluted stuff between my ears.It took me back to 1955-56 during my 2nd year at the U. Of Utah. I was living and … [Read more...] about Prices, 1950’s – 2020’s

January shot past us at a fast clip. Maybe because it was more like summer than winter. This is a very strange winter.Another thing that shot past quickly was the 300 weeks I have been doing this Newsletter. Where does it all go. So many things have happened to us all. We forget most of them and remember a few. In my case, I spend a lot of time in the past. Talking with people … [Read more...] about January Obituary

The winters back in the 40s-50s usually dumped plenty of snow on McGill. This always caused a crisis among us McGill heathens. We believed that the snow was put there for one purpose and that was for us to go sledding, building snow forts, snowball throwing etc.. The big crisis was that we had to waste our weekdays at the local gulag sitting in stuffy classrooms.Since we knew … [Read more...] about Winter Fun at School, 1940’s – 50’s

The chore of doing laundry has progressed from slapping clothes on a rock in a stream or lake, and has been upgraded through the years. I am old enough to remember when people used a washboard/scrub board and a tub of water. I even remember when several ladies in the neighborhood built a fire in the alley and made their own soap. They had a large metal tub over the fire, and I … [Read more...] about Laundry Day – 1940’s