It is SO good. I love history so the ones that go back into the mid 1800's are my favorites. It's a sad story of slavery but it's also sit on the edge of your seat mystery. I picked it up at the library on Saturday and will probably take it back Wednesday morning. I'm half way through now and I just can't put it down.
That's why I can't buy books anymore. I only buy ones that are out of print or not at our library. And those I buy from Abe Books or somewhere else and don't pay the full price. If I buy them I may as well just throw $25 in the garbage cause I read them in 3 or 4 days and never read them a second time cause I have so many on my list that I want to read.
I was working on the yard a lot of the time last week while the weather was nice. And I've been trying to put my genealogy tree back together. When I bought Window's Vista I lost a lot of information that was on there, even though I had it backed up to disc. I have hard copies but it's so much work putting all that back into the computer. On the other hand I've decided I've come to the end of what I wanted to do so it will be good to get the file drawer cleared out a bit and get my reports printed out once and for all.
I found some neat stuff at my sister's. One is a photo of my dad's gas station. It's such a far cry from what I think of when I think gas station. They didn't have hoists, they had pits that you drove the car over and the workers (my dad) had to go into the pit to change oil or work on the underside of the car. I took a picture of a picture she had. It's very blury and I tried to clarify it plus changed it to greyscale so it can be seen a little better. That big building behind it isn't part of the gas station... only the little front part and a small single garage size attached building. I just can't imagine how cold it must have been in the Ottawa winters!
I always thought it was a Texaco station and what I've discovered was it was the precursor to the Texaco station. It was called "Little Chief". Remember "Fire Chief" by Texaco? This was before that. He had this station from 1933 to about 1941. The franchise cost him $6.00 a month. I love looking through old stuff.
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I love old stuff too. Man much more snow and the you wouldn't find the place. That must have been awfully cold for them in the winter to work on cars.
What a cute looking service station. And COLD!!! And I loved The Lost Quilter, too. Her historical stuff is so much more interesting to me than her contemporary stuff, although I have bought all of it. I am a library dweller myself, except when it comes to quilting books and quilt fiction. I'm trying to build a topical library for myself.
I finished The Lost Quilter a few weeks ago ,it was so good I couldn't put it down .You brought back memories my dad also owned gas stations right up to 1968 . I remember the pits . at the time I was afraid to go down in them LOL.
What a blast from the past! I remember those little stations from the small town I grew up in. Thanks for sharing!
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