They had a record player in a big box that looked like furniture. It had a sliding wooden top that opened to the record player that still works as far as I know. Oh gosh...it makes me teary to think about this. It is funny and heart-breaking all at the same time that the song Chug-a-Lug makes me want to weep. Sometimes things pop into your head out of the clear blue. You have to believe it is not by accident...
Records...one of my favorite things to do during those weeks in the summer at my grandparents house was listen to DaddyDoyle's records. Another favorite...Big Chief Wampum bedtime stories...that for sure left me with eyes wide opened.
DaddyDoyle would tell me these stories when I spent the night. Just the thought that BIG CHIEF WAMPUM actually existed was unnerving but it did not keep me from begging to hear more. On occasion he would drive me by Big Chief Wampum's place...which in my later years I realized it was actually the American Legion in Gleason! haha
His story would begin in Dresden and I guess I was too young to ever really pay attention ....but you better believe I was big blue-eyes when we finally got there and saw the torch lighted out front. It sealed the deal for me. I think I rode back to Dresden lost in my thoughts that it was actually real!
I can still remember sitting in the truck...he would actually pull up and stop...we would both be staring as he quietly told me the clencher to the story as the flame flickered...he knew he had me reeled in:) I think I still believe in BIG CHIEF WAMPUM...heehee He will always be a mighty warrior to me.
Enjoy this, friends. I certainly still do...my grandparents gave me the best memories.
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