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Show Alberta freshman 6-3 p.8 s L A L A L A L A L A and his children seem very much attached to it even though they never lived there. And my nephew has a small piece of ground there. I don't know weether he w~ll always have it ~ecause ~hey want to e~~R~~ .b~~· l ·~~ a, ~~a~ through there. But JUSt b.ecause my fam1ly com1ng from there, e·terybeel} 's sentimenal attitude toward Victor, Colorado. I've neverbeen back but my brother has been back. Was Victor different from Cripple Creek. Well Cripple Creek was more of a tourist place, now it is too. They still have a hotel there. tAey/W~d an opera house.in Victor too. So. L An opera house in both places. YEs. But now, of course more in Cripple Creek than in Victor. There are some people ~X even nurses~ are going there to retire. In Crpple Ereek~ And ~ Victor. Victor? In Victor both? So Victor wasn't too far from Cripple Creek. +J JIJ'.·" No. It took about a half hour, by~little train. t1 --Used to be a blind man usually on the train and he'd play his violin all the way across and people would throw coins into his cup, you know, .. L You remember that. .,.-t. A Oh,.1yes, I remember that. And~ used tdlave gypsys come.and I would be scared to .,J ~,_ ,, . • death-If I saw them blocks away, I'd run home. And they'd come and stay a few days, roam around. L What did they look like. A I don't--just what one learns about jypsies you know. They were typically many skirted and bright clothes and like a scarf of bright colors around their heads and big.big,huge earings. And they told fortunes. But I thought they were bewitched somehow. So I was very frightened of them. And we had not many circuses. but one came. Barner and Baily came,and I'll always remember that. I was a little ~-- ...,~, bit older. I was about 9 or 10. And J ...-.. ~ ~~~ in between times ttiEt I was home and I remember how wonderfl I thought the circus was. And I think they are yet! I still like them. L They are grand spectacles. A Aren't they. And they used to be in the big top, you know. Of cours.e, now it's much more comfortable to be in an airconditionedplace. J But, tt's just like the trainsJ Thres a certain romance about trains, the sound of the whistle and the lantern being swung around for "all aboard" that you don't forget. I guess I would like to go back to it, but, for awhile, just take one trip. But I guess it would be like going back to where you once lived or have been that you liked alot and--You can't go home again, is the saying. Atleast I've found. I ~ver went back to Victor. But places I've loved and WACR went back to in California, weren't the same. Maybe |
