During the Depression
Dad told many stories about riding the freights to look for work. His brother Earl was with him. They made it as far as the BC Coast, but couldn’t find any work and headed back East. One story that I remember as a kid was Dad had just bought a new hat...he always wore a fedora. He was on top of one of the train cars and fell asleep. He dreamed the hat had blown off and he woke up, grabbed at the hat and knocked it off into the wind. It was gone.
The picture below is Dad and Uncle Herb with their new cars.
Dad got a loan for his....looks like it says March 7, 1941. His payments were $300.00 every 6 months.
I wonder if the car below is Harbor Green? If so that is the exact car that Dad bought in 1941.
