...CHARACTERS IN OUR DRAMA OF LIFE
One warm spring day.
not long ago and after
an early lawn mowing
I was sitting there
under the back patio
just sipping on lemon tea
and got drowsy and must've
dozed off for one of
those weird day-time reveries
and
there I was back in old Clovis
my beloved hometown since
along about the summer of '38
and I was walking the sidewalks
and seeing the streets or was
I riding the old Schwinn bicycle
or in the green '60 Chevy pickup-
who knows ...dragging Main...
or flying over someway--
you know dreams...
and as I saw all around my mind
went back over decades
and saw all the store and businesses
that were so much a part
of our world ...then... almost like
characters in our drama of life
in our growing-up days...
Yes
we had that town memorized.
In my dream there were:
Clovis High School the Band Shell,
Silver Grill Standridge Drug
First Methodist Gateway Auto
Curry County Court House. State Theater
Stanley Pawol Thrifty Drug
Sunshine Theater Levine's Anthony's
Fox Drug Newsstand J.C. Penny's
Lyceum Theater Cotton's Barber Shop
Woolworth's May Brothers
Duckworth's Drug Carmack's Sutter's
Holmberg's Frear's Mandell’s…..
…..Jack Holt the Clothier Citizens Bank
Carrington Barber Shop Post Office
Jenk's Barber Shop Peggy's Shop
City Hall/Fire Department
The Country Store Whatley's Wick's
O.K.RubberWelders Empy's Welding
Magic Steam Laundry Phelps Grocery
Blaylock's Janeway Drug
Rode's Mens Store Coney Island
Slaughter Murray’s Mesa Theater
Busy Bee Hotel Clovis Snazzy Pig
El Monterrey Clovis National
Montgomery Ward Clovis Printing
Woolworth's and then:
there I was standing there at the
corner of Fourth and Main in front
of Barry Hardware, one of my favorite
stores and places in town--and
strangely of a sudden the time was
August of 1945 and Main was
blocked and a KICA van was out in
the intersection broadcasting, as
I came out of the Saturday movie at
the Lyceum...
KICA was announcing through
their loudspeaker
The Japanese have surrendered.
And I was eleven years old ...and
thought No More Wars...and suddenly
I awoke...
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By MIL
22 MAY 2019
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