[or-roots] Huh? 60 years ago

[Leslie Chapman]

Cecil;

Was this an answer to a question? or you just tired of the inactivity on the
list, folks must be enjoying the labor day weekend, cause the net is sure
dead for genealogy, though seems reaaaal busy otherwise.

Talking beer bottles reminds me of walking to school in the morning and
seeing a trail of empties left along the road by an alcoholic neighbor, it
was a little over a mile to the bus stop and less than three quarters of
that was his portion and sometimes I swear there were three or four new
bottles of a morning. I never picked any up, don't know if they were non
refundable then, me being a youngster, (this woulda been from about '56 to
early '60's) or I was just too lazy to gather them.

Picked up a coke bottle from texas on the roadside on Badger mountain a
couple months ago, I thought that was a bit strange.

So what's this got ot do with genealogy? Search me, but some day I may have
to do some research on the neighbor's family, though since his nephew is
Mormon, he may already be all researched up.

Les C

Happy labor day everybody, I get the weekend off!!!!!


Stubbies, long necks, and pop bottles.

The first two are beer bottles.  Stubbies are the short ones; long necks the
tall ones.

As you long time subscribers may know, my father bought (what was left of)
the Shea property near Foster, OR, in 1943.  The Southern limit of this
property was Highway 20.

Back in the good old "bad" days, Doug and I could gather enough bottles
along HWY 20 to buy more soda at THOMPSON"S TAVEREN (now under a di
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