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Show S~mon Frank 6-29 p.l8 marshalls a~-ehe-e!m - along the parade routes, you know. And bcause of that, my Dad let me take the car to school.t So from East side high school, we paraded down to, our station was about 2nd East and So Temple.And then we paraded all the way back to the East Side~And it was so unsuaul for me to have the car, that I foggot that I had it1so that I took the streetcar home and when I finally got home, I remember my god I had the car. So I had to gee go back and get it. But I say ~e=my cmildrenneverexprienced anything like that. Eahh ch,ld got a car when he was 16, he or she. And my grandchildren, each child got a car on his or her confirmation) From~e temple. And in a way it's too bad. I think they got spoiled. With t~ai sort of things. As I say, I got more kick out of a ganana t!!_ .• ~,..y ~ ~pecial than they get out of4~ same trip to ~Europe. sotbat's how the world has changed. L Do you think back often about the changes. S Oh, yes. And mainly on the basis that I'm so happy to have been born in my,. , time than my childrens and I told that to my son-in-law very often. I've said, you know~ Larry, ~ I'm delighted that I'm my age and not your'~'Aod I guess he's smarter than I am becuase his answer was, "Dad, that makestwo of us." But I do think that we lived through more changes , moredefinite changes. For example, telephone, the radio) and television and automobiles and airplanes. Because I'm such a naive young man that I s~~get a kick out of turning a switch on the wall and see the lights go on. That's a tremendous accomploshment! Having been¢ born inthe candle age, you know, and the lamp age -- and telephones. I've seen all the streets paved in Salt Lake City. And also we had anelegance of living, quiet, refined living .. , and the times that we coul dhave help. And ~ lots of help. And lots of familiy dinners, ; for example, on almost always on Sunday and others that you woul dhave -rhat's sort of &1 t all gone. We had a nurse who was with us for 45 years. And we had the best cook in town. ~d when the kids nurse [?] got older and then the cook got married.Th~Francis was her name. And she would learn from the cook was th!s as good if not better than she was and we had day help along with her, but she ran the house. ~d just marvelous and she made me very angry eeas~e because she was my age and she died about 4 years ago£ ~ /Jnd I'm still mad at her for that. :iiiEI&. spoil,, ed our lives. Because--we have a home in the desert and I used to say to her, Come one1Francis, come to the a deser t with us. And she'd look at me i!ke as much es-sey!ft~-f~e--- the same as I looked at the little girl in the hotel, "Mr. Frank, I don't play golf." L That's what that meant. s So, we had a lot of fun in our lifetime. As I say, we had a quieter time of life. Speaking of parties with chaperones and now the freedom of liberty ~~ . with live in -IIICi:cl you know, and h~~;., my own family ..• this wouldn't be nice to ••. L We can take it out, ..•. |
