Gun Talk

[susandennis]

I started it with my earlier entry and then there were comments and then I got to thinking about guns in our house growing up and then I remembered this wonderful family photo...



Sunday morning hold up! I can tell it's Sunday because of the paper and because Daddy was home. (At that time, he was a traveling salesman - fer real - and spent weekdays on the road.) That's my sister and my brother who have Daddy under wraps. It was in Kansas City, so before 1955 so bill_schubert was probably 2 ish and Nancy 5 ish. Thank you Roy Rogers and Cisco Kid and The Lone Ranger.

I was 6 and way too grown up for such chicanery.

Comments

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we had masks long before they were cool.

[susandennis]

YES!

[carriea31.livejournal.com]

Awww, what a great memory/photo.

[sextangles.livejournal.com]

Really cute. My 6 y/o would definitely not be too grown up for holding up his dad!

[man-of-snows.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine having children and having my spouse gone 5 days of 7!

[susandennis]

Since you are a new friend, in going to guess your comment is not meant to criticize my dad. It was a different time. He was a great father.

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't know your father so I can't state any opinions about him at all. Other than he seems easily tied up by desperados!

I am saying I can't imagine how much work your mom did while your dad supported the family on the road. Though I suppose most of the women of that era did heroic amounts of work since the house was not a man's job. Minus repairs?

[man-of-snows.livejournal.com]

I didn't know your dad so I have no opinion about him at all. Minus that he seems easy prey for desperados!

I was just saying I cannot imagine how much work raising a family was with a spouse on the road.

[siglinde99.livejournal.com]

That is a wonderful memory. We’re they proper cap guns? I loved those things.

[susandennis]

They probably were cap guns but we never had caps. If we ever got any they were all used up in about a minute!!

[rsc.livejournal.com]

A vague memory says that there was a rifle or shotgun of some kind on the wall over the mantelpiece in my grandparents' (later my parents') summer house. It must have come with the house when my grandparents bought it. I think my parents eventually managed to get rid of it, although I have no idea how.

[siglinde99.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they never lasted long enough to satisfy us.