“Do Exercise in the Sunshine Each Day”

Sep 9th “Do Exercise in the Sunshine Each Day”

Sometimes and just for FUN… I would ride around the block on my hefty nifty scooter… just as fast as I could. Just so happens that my two younger brothers were not able to use my latest and greatest of get-going fancy equipment… but they would stand by… just hoping for a chance to catch up and maybe even try. Nothing like putting on a good show for then… back in the day.

This picture was taken back in the 1940‘s during WWII days… just wondering if anybody would know this corner location… let me know … and I will tell you… if you are correct!

When you grow… you need something bigger to get around on. This is in the 1940’s later than that in the above, and at the Orphanage.

Since this bike was in our basement… and not being used… ask my Mom to have my Dad bring it out to me in his truck… so that I could be using it, as a couple of other families had sent bikes out to their children and I may as well be riding with them…for the FUN and exercise

Just something to do … when we were able to be on the playgrounds… and of course build up our leg muscles.

So… after graduating from the eighth grade and now at home with my Mother… have to go to High School.

Just for Fun… had my Mom take a picture of me on the new bike that she bought for me. It is a boys’ bike and in the picture you can see that is me in my school uniform.

To get to Rosati-Kain High School… from the other side of the Fairgrounds Park by car is 4.3 miles or about 13 minutes time to travel. So how long would it take if you used your bike to get to School… when the St.Louis Bus Service goes on strike?

Well…that was the situation one week when there was no “BUS” service.. . how do I get to School?

That is why I had made this photo of me with a “Dunce Hat” and on the top of it… is my School Beanie Hat… that I had to have on at school, for we would have to be in Church for services at various times.

In addition to that… Where do I put my school books and my lunch and a small purse and sometimes a few other things? This was the situation for at least a week… as a week of not being in school… could mean maybe a flunking grade or even worse?

When I was younger and doing all of that riding my small bike and scooter… it was because as the godd old saying goes… “There’ll come a day, when you will need these strengths… and where will you be… If were not preparing beforehand!”

Just remembering… I do not know of anyone in my class that had so far to go… back then, just to get to School…riding their bike both to School and then make that trip home… while managing that you do not lose your stuff and at the same time…trying to keep you skirt out of the spokes and not too high and flying, to show too much leg!”