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REALLY SO WHAT
What A Time

MY FAMILY

evil eye. If it wasn’t for the cherry pie desert I’d never have
survived.

That Christmas both the men, Rex and Pop got a surprise in
their stockings. No oranges, a real treat during the war;
instead there were switches and coal.

America had been driving autos for three decades and roads
were becoming quite the thing. By the 1930’s the first national
highway system had been built. It’s organization was simple to
understand. All highways running north and south were given
odd numbers, while east and west even numbers. US #1
therefore ran from Maine to Florida, and US #2 ran across the
northern states thru Montana. Uncle Rex and Aunt Augusta
had driven across the country before this system was put in
place . Many roads were dirt, some in the southwest had 2 feet
of dust and mud. The east coast had more paved roads. It was
quite an adventure for them.

Neither Mom nor Pop knew how to drive when the world
came crashing down on them with the Great Depression of
the 1930’s. They lived in Philadelphia and both lost their jobs.
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They sold everything, bought a 6 hand Pontiac, took driving
lessons, modified the car and embarked on a camping trip
across the country.
For over a year they drove around the country. They traveled
to every National Park in the U.S. until Pop finally got another
engineering job.

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