Wednesday, August 12, 2015

"ME 'N ART"


2014



2ND GRADE, 1940

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AUGUST 23, 
   TO ART SNIPES---CHS '51
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Now "me and Art..." we go 
     a "long way back..."
as the saying goes.

Why, it seems like only yesterday
    we were just....little kids
there in our wonderful 
    home town  of Clovis!

We first met at old La Casita School,
    in 1939...in the first grade.

He lived at 1020 Thornton
    and in '40 we moved 
to 1100 Reid...

Thus we spent our whole "little
    boy" childhoods...a 
block apart!

BOY SCOUTS TOGETHER

Along with Art and his little
    brother, Bobby Joe, we all
became lifetime friends!

Stories abound all over MIL'S
    PLACE, about our antics
and vicissitudes, and 
     creative escapades. and
shenanigans...

Baseball, football, marbles, tops,
    "transler" hunting, hammers-
and-nails, cowboys-and-Indians!

Also, we fought WWII on that vacant
    lot, gathered scrap iron and
old tires to help win the war! 

 JAMES, ART, MIL, BILL, BOB
(FIGHTING WWII, 1944)

We played croquet on his front lawn
    and stopped to read Joe 
Palooka and Jerry Leemy comics,
    on Art's LR floor, when the
CNJ came, at 3:30 p.m.

O who can forget that our local
    school bully, J.J., chased us all
home from La Casita---almost
    every day...

UNTIL---

He cornered little Art in an alley,
    and Art socked him a good one,
in his FACE...and took off runnin',,,

O he was OUR HERO!

BILL, MIL, ART AND BOB
IN FRONT OF ART'S HOUSE


Finally, CHS graduation came,
     We had all grown up!
Then the years passed as
      we Clovis kids 
went our merry ways 
       tackling life....


Just about every time I was back
    in Clovis, I'd drop by the tire
store and "me and Art" would
    have a good chat!

ART ON THE SANTA FE TRAIL, 2012

It was a miracle...along about '88
    Art moved to Albuquerque
and wound up living three
    blocks west of me!

We now see each other every
    coupla weeks or so.

Ah, a great thing about life---

We are all given loyal, loving
    friends to help us on
our journey...

like ART.

(Art, from all your CHS '51 friends
     and all others...
Have a HAPPY DAY!)


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MIL'S PLACE
by MIL
12 August 2015
0849 hrs.









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