Nice posts Toronado! My grand pa, mom's dad, was over half way through is career in the Navy and was at Pearl on Dec. 7th. At that time he was on the USS Pruitt, which was converted to a mine layer in the late '30's, and was in Pearl for an overhaul. He joined the Navy at 15 in 1927 and retired 30 years later a full Commander. Dad had a cousin who's still in the USS Arizona. I remember we went to visit the Memorial soon after it was completed. He was only 5 at the time Pearl was bombed but it had a huge effect on him and joined the Marines at 16 during the Korean was. He turned 17 in Korea and never had to fire a shot in anger as the armistice was signed when his transport ship was about a week out from docking. Said it was the happiest day of his life. Dad and his B.A.R. in Korea USS Pruitt.
Worked at a food store in the early 60s and delivered order in my mid teens 6 days a week from 9 to 6 for $40.00 a week in between deliveries moped the floor and stocked the shelves. That said I was doing 80 to a 100.00 a week between tips and my $40.00 a week salary on a Schwinn Truck Bike similar to the one in the first photo except the one I used had a wire basket. Today they are quite a bit of money to buy.
The Port of Catoosa is one of the farthest inland seaports in the United States,[10] linking Tulsa to the Arkansas River, the Mississippi River, and eventually to the Gulf of Mexico. Copied from Wikipedia.
Unfortunately this horrific event in our history does seem as though it's being forgotten. Some online news sites had no coverage of it at all (I looked) and I don't think that many young people even know about it. Some years ago we visited Pearl Harbor. What an unbelievably moving experience.
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