[or-roots] Re: Do You Remember Punch Boards?

[Violet Sunderland]

Yes, I remember them, too.

When my dad was working at Willamette Camp in the Coast Range 1938-1940, 
he stayed the week in the bunkhouse and was only home on weekends. He 
played the punch boards there and sometimes had a 5 lb. box of 
chocolates in his suitcase or some other prize when he came home. Later, 
after he built his planing mill in Falls City, we'd sometimes go across 
the river to a tavern to eat lunch. By that time, my mother was tallying 
lumber at the mill because of the manpower shortage after WWIII started 
so it was faster to eat out than fix something at the house and I 
remember seeing the punch boards being played there. I don't think the 
price for playing was as much as a dollar, though...... more like a 
quarter. (The cost may have gone up later.) I have a couple of mill 
payroll ledgers from those days and dollars were every bit as dear then 
as they are now.

Cecil -- Good to see you posting again! About the name "Dobbin," it may 
have come from the old song,  "Put on your old gray bonnet with the blue 
ribbons on it, While I hitch old Dobbin to the shay...." See 
http://www.spiritofsinatra.com/pages/Lyrics/p/Put_On_Your_Old_Grey_Bonnett.htm

Violet Sunderland
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