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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