“Every PHOTO…has a STORY”
This is 1953… and the SUMMER TIME!
Check this out…. it is in…the faces … look carwfylly and check out Tom on the cot!
In the months of June and August – – German St. Vincent Orphanage will celebrate on the second Sunday of those two months with a very big PICNIC … there will be rides including “Pony RIDES” for the children and FOOD… all day including “Chicken Dinners” and every kind of chance game and everyone feels LUCKY… and there are lots of WINNERS!
So… with all of that good stuff going on … why not go?
Since it did not look like… we were all going… that would be MOM on the swing… my little sister, Eve Karen and I am taking this PHOTO … so this is why you see “THOMAS” on the cot… in great pain and suffering… and if you have good eyesight and this PHOTO… has been enlarged … you can see that TOM is not a cry baby… he would rather die… than to let you know that … he had a serious accident on my brand new “boy’s style bike!”
Why do “GIRLS” have to have a “BOY’S” style bike… in case a boy just might want to “take you”… for a ride on your bike with the “handlebars?”
TOMMY wanted to go to the ST. Vincent’s PICNIC as a lot of his friends would be there … and since I had a brand new “BIKE” he thought that he should try it out… just to “SEE” what it will do… and of course it would save TIME and BUS FARE as there would be at least four (4) BUS transfers to get there.
It is approximately six (6) miles from where we live in NORTH SAINT LOUISE to NORMANDY, Missouri! Just simply a piece of cake for a good looking and strong teenager … no problem at all?
My brother “TOM” … should have been in… “HOLLYWOOD” as he has everyone enjoying… everything… wherever you are and whatever you are doing. He is the original “ENTERTAINER”. That is for as long as he is there… the SHOW is on and everyone stays… till he lets you know the … SHOW is over!
Tom made it out to the PICNIC – safe and sound – but in TIME… TOM was showing all of the different ways to ride a bike and as “LUCK” would have it… there was a soft gravel side road …just off of the main road and as in one of the turns… in this particular stunt called for… well… “TOM and BIKE” went flying down the side area and TOM… landing on his arm… and the gravel did an unmerciful job on himself… embedding into the arm… he had “PAIN” out of this world but… he would not let on…to the crowd… that he was suffering! “To the High Heavens”
Nothing to do… but to cover the arm as well as he could with the sleeve of his shirt and make excuses… starts to ride the bike home… with the PAIN just so bad… he did not know if he would even make it??
When TOM arrived HOME … I could tell that something was wrong… but Tom was no longer into FUN and GAMES… his situation was that he had PAIN so bad… he did not want to upset MOM… so nosy ME… I had to see what the arm looked like??
This was a situation for the HOSPITAL… in my books and that is where we all had to go with TOM … that gravel was stuck into the skin… so nice and tight… I would not be surprised to know… that there is still some stuck in his arm!
In those days there was only the “CITY HOSPITAL” that I knew of for emergencies… but on the next day, as you see in the above PHOTO… we are all worn out.
We all had to take “TOM” to the Hospital … going on the “BUS” … there was so much that needed to done… that we had to find resting places here and there… while the nurses and doctors worked on TOM!
The previous night at the HOSPITAL…was enough for a LIFETIME. So… as you can see TOM is taking it easy in the backyard… just resting and probably hoping… that we all will forget! (- but not me… the photo is a very good reminder -)
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