A sequence from the past!

With the aid of the Toad, this sequence from the past is given for your preview. The three pictures are real close to the same era of existence for the individuals involved in time, space and life.

PICTURE #1:
The top picture is of the Goat hooked up to Binkie's Green trailer beside our home in Tempe. I estimate the picture was probably taken 1955 to 1957. (Ignore the two hoodlums in the back, they are just some of mom's Indians.) This setup is just as it made the trip to the Ranch many - many times. There were times when the Goat had a top on it. It was a canvas that dad had built with eyelets in it, which attached to the top of the wind-shield in the front and then pulled straight back - level over everything else. I do not recall, but there must have been posts that stood in the old body braces that it anchored too. It looks like Dad has the Goat fitted with big gumbo mud-ders for heavy haul-lin.

PICTURE #2:
We often went by way of Superior, Ray, Hayden, Winkle-man and Dudley-vile to get to the Ranch. Back then the road between Ray and Winkle-town was dirt and very windy. The town of Ray and the Ray Open Pit Mine were one in the same during these early years. This picture is a 1957 fly over of the Pit and the Town. When looking at the picture the pit is kinda in the middle. The Old Town of Sonora is above it and Old Town of Ray is below and also to the left of it. Down town Ray is to the left. Mineral Creek flows from the bottom to the top on the left hand side of the picture or north to south, which is near down town Ray. The truck shops for the Open Pit Mine were in down town Ray. Old highway 177, that we traveled so many times, comes into the picture on the lower right hand side - right through the middle of the houses - then sweeps up through the middle of down town Ray - and travels out of the picture winding up and along Mineral Creek. From there it went to Kelvin then along what is now known as the Old Ray Road to Hayden & Winkle-man. At Winkle-Town we usually stopped at Giorsetti's Store to buy ice (so we could make home made ice-cream at the Old Ranch), hot dogs (to cook over the fire just north and east of the big Black Walnut tree) and occasionally 22-shots. A couple of notes: Becky lived across the street for this store when she was a little girl and used to shop there. Also, a nephew of these people (who is also a Giorsetti and a Mechanical Engineer) works for me now. He lived with them in that store for a several of years while growing up.

PICTURE #3:
Is a picture of Dad and his gang of hoodlums (minus the two biggest hoodlums of all) at the Ranch. Once at the Ranch; Pe'dro commenced his work of weaseling his way into Grandma's heart by taking care of her very special chickens and all while wearing his most fine western wear that Dad procured for him (see picture); Cisco continued being Mom's and Dad's most cared for young man with his cloths of many colors and shoes of pure white (see picture); and the heathen's Pablo and Garcia mostly fought, rough housed, threw up a ruckuses, swung much too high on the swinging bed, and generally did the things that make a Dad and a Mom wonder what had gone wrong (see picture). Do not miss understand - nothing evil - just real busy little folks. In case you could not tell from the picture, Pablo liked the more casual Hawaiian shirt and tanned look while Garcia like the pullover body huggin' shirt that revealed the strong arms and body physic ready for a ruckus look (even though Pablo always won).