Fond memories of Granddad:
- 5 gallon buckets of Swan's ice cream
- peanuts
- popcorn in purses, pockets and shoes
- chocolate syrup (called chocolate dope) on your car door handle
- he played checkers and cards alot with you but never let you win
- jarts
- pool table
- card club
- weekly trips to Big Bear
- he made fun of Ernest
- he loved Lois
- he sat in his chair with one leg on the arm of the chair
- he watched the "Dating Game" and the "Newlyweds"
- Cleveland Browns on Sundays
- Cleveland Indians game on radio every night even though they never had good teams
- orange slices
- he and I tried to build things with wood and couldn't
- golfed with a two iron and putter
- Called me Buddy Boy
- Shaving Cream
- Toys in your bed sheets
- Shoes thrown at you in the bedroom
- water fights
- borrowed baby goats for the kids
- quail and pheasants
- milk shakes on long car rides
- speeding up to make Grandma holler
- guessing on the number of cars that we would see between town and their drive way
- breaded veal sandwiches
- detective magazines
- "It's hell getting old, buddy boy."
- jacked up back tires
- tin cans tied to cars
- fishing and never catching anything
- going out after dark to catch earth worms
- uncombed hair
- being locked out of the house
- turning the antenna on the house to try and pick up the Browns out of Cleveland
- drinking your drink
- stealing your food off of your plate
- the heals of his socks on the top of his foot
- Grandma watering his hair down
- dropping ashes on you
- shirts burned with cigarette ashes
- naps under the blanket in the front room
- summer hay workers that love him (Little Johnny)
- you could call him and he would come get you
- corny jokes "Big fight up town last night. Some cat licked his paw."
- great at math
- read a lot of newspapers
- was never rude to Grandma
- Don't trump his ace.
- check out girls at Big Bear
- wrestling matches
shaving cream
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racing for the past piece of Grandma's pie
you're a Gantz
Poverty Acres
Aaahhh, pickle.
fiddle dee dee
Hi Ho the Dairy O ... we like Granddad best
typo ---- last piece of Grandma's pie - not past.... :)
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Made fun of Grandma after she got her hair done-- "going to break your arm patting the back your head".
Green Ash tray in had by the chair.
Gum boots
Picking me up to ride piggy back across the mud and cow manure.
Telling the girls to save the donut hole for him.
Knucklehead
Could recite some poetry
The rocking chair at the window
Feeding the birds
The big swing in the tree
Telling friends that called for you that you were in jail
Loved his family
Treated his son in laws like his own
Reading papers--Cleveland Plain Dealer and Columbus Dispatch
Going to the carry out store and buying us comic books or marbles.
bread pudding
butter on his sandwiches
AS I WAS WRITING THIS--I WANTED TO FORWARD TO DAD. HE WOULD HAVE LOVED THIS.
I'll dance at your wedding
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Watching him jump when I handed him a mole
Handheld TV speaker
Limp
A Team
Take a tablespoon of alcohol and put his clothes on backwards to make Grandma think he was drunk.
Ann
Quail
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The garden
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Hammerhead
H.C. Himself
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