Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Getting Old


May 6, 2012
Sunday
This is from Richard.   We are talking about getting old.    Leona took about an hour to read all the obits from around Sandoval and Willcox.    Some of the deceased were older than me and some of them I knew.   http://www.wjbdradio.com/index.php?f=obits 

We read about Harold Joyce.    He was a banker in Sandoval.   He was a good one to have.   I missed him when I moved to Willcox.   I would tell the people here in Willcox that I missed my Sandoval banker more than anything else when I moved.     Before I went to Arizona I had a pad of blank notes from him at the bank and he told me that you could put the amount here and date it and sign it and he will take care of me.   He always said that if I wanted to buy some machinery or some cattle,   just to write a check and when I came to town we would take care of it.   He would hold it till I could come to town.  (He knew I was a good customer.)   

  (Sandoval National Bank 1960s~)

In my early years in Willcox, I was trying to work with my big banker here.  He was giving me a hard time. I told him about my pad from the Sandoval Bank.  He couldn't believe me.   I should have told him that all he had to do was give me a pad of notes like Sandoval did for me.   And we would take care of it.      The banker came to the store a few days later and said he wanted to see that pad of notes I had so I had to pull it out of the drawer to show him.   

(Picture of the store as it looked like when we acquired it. Filming a movie named "Dalton" on Railroad Ave.  )



John and his family went up to the Chirichua Mountains today and tonight for a picnic so we were by ourselves.    

 (Chirichua Mountains October 2011)
 

Well Dan, I hope you have some soybeans sowed though I am not pushing you cause it is still early.   

 (Soybean field July 2011)

This is Dick Seidel on historic Railroad Avenue

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