Sunday
January 28, 1968
6:30 P.M.
Dear Larry:
Just got through with my washing. I hate to do it on Sunday but it was so dreary outside that I felt like doing it since there is not much else to do. It sure made me feel a little better to hear your voice on the phone, the only thing I hated was to say good-bye.
Dad isn’t home from the [Polish] Club yet, boy, when he goes to those meetings he forgets to come home. I know that he will be glad to hear that you are getting savings bonds every pay. I forgot to ask you on the phone, but did you get paid yet? I’ll bet you don’t go anywhere so you don’t have to spend any money. I think its a good idea to save some of it.
Well, there isn’t much going on around here. I helped Aunt Helen at Bingo Friday and Saturday, and as usual, I didn’t win any money. Joanna got off work at 7:30 last night (Sat. nite) and stayed at home. She had to get up this morning and went to the 6 o’clock mass and had to be at work at 7 to 10:30, then went back at 3:30 to 7:30 tonight. Tomorrow is her day off. She runs around with Carol J—-. Joanna said Billie B—– is getting married next Saturday and she didn’t even invite her or Carol to the wedding. At least one good thing about it is that she will save some money and not have to get her a wedding gift.
I guess Diane P—– is still going with Mike F—–, maybe she will be getting married when he gets his divorce. Why would a girl like her do a thing like that? I don’t know. She doesn’t even call Joanna up anymore, and here they used to be the best of friends.
Tresa, Karl and Schmulick are all sitting here watching me write to you. I told the kids that I should have put Schmulick on the phone to meow to you. As for Chipper, he is outside, we let him in once in a while when its cold outside. We still put him in the garage at night. Here is a clipping from this mornings paper. This man is going to be guest speaker at St. Ambrose next Sunday. Karl and Dad are going to the breakfast. Dad sold quite a few tickets for it. Will close for now and hope to hear from you.
Love
Mom
Saturday
January 27, 1968
6:41 P.M.
Hi Larry,
I want to tell you about a funny dream mommy told me she had. Here it goes. One day we had company, and she hadn’t seen you in 2 years. No one noticed you until you said, “Hi everyone.” They all turned around and looked at you. Mommy thought you looked so skinny. Then she said to you, “Why are you so skinny?” You said I didn’t eat in 6 days because the food was so greasy. Now mommy said, “I hope you didn’t run away.” Then when mommy asked how you got home, she woke up. That was some dream mommy had. In that dream mommy acted like she wasn’t even excited. Now I have a few words to say, if you don’t write to us, we wont write to you. Daddy said a letter is better than a phone call.
Your Sister
Ellie Mae [Tresa]
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The “Learn to Fly” image at the top was just on the back of the Edward Krause clipping that was included. I thought it was interesting. You can click it to view the whole image.
I almost contacted Joanna’s friends that were mentioned in here, but then decided against it since Amelia was talking smack about them. haha
For the experts: Who is Chipper?
“Now I have a few words to say, if you don’t write to us, we wont write to you.”
Touche!
Chipper was another dog. I don’t really remember him too well– we had so many dogs that either ran off, got hit by a car, or poisoned by a neighbor because he had a “BM” in their yard! We were not responsible dog owners to say the least, mostly because my mom never really liked them. And Joanna did run around with an interesting group of friends to say the least!
That’s just my way of saying “now dammit, write!”
Ahhh, the fond memories of the smokey bingo hall. I used to love taking my dolls with me and going with Mother. Her sister, Aunt Helen and Uncle Vic used to run the bingo joint, and Mother helped them work the concession stand during intermission. It would amaze me how her and Aunt Helen would play like 30 cards and know if the other person was “in”, which meant down to 1 number on their card. That was before Mother had her drivers license, and Daddy used to drop her off and I was always afraid he may have had one too many Falstaff and would end up backing the car (probably the Dodge) into the pond.
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[...] This morning we went to the 8 o’clock mass as Dad and Karl went to the Holy Name Communion breakfast. Uncles Harold, Ray, Ed, Vic and Rickie went also. Carol had to serve coffee to the men. I guess there were around 300 men there and the speaker was very good. We sent you the picture of the speaker, remember? [...]