Friday, 20 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 20 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, warm, 50, snow about gone.  Gerald was home.  David, Wayne and Gerald went to Cobleskill after Gerald's clothes and got a plug for the chainsaw in Middleburgh.  The pump didn't run so David took the motor off the Maytag and used it.  We got our new ironing board.  I did a big wash, the girls cleaned up the house. Clifton and Jim were both working.
Comment:  Busy day...Mom on her Grandmother's porch in Middleburgh maybe 1920 or so....

Thursday, 19 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 19 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, chilly, in the thirties.  Marilyn cut my hair and gave me a permanent.  Clifton started work in Windham on roller for Green Island Construction Co. HB called Jim back to work.
Comment:  Getting back to work....

Betcha Jim is driving without a NY license and HB is risking it because either some driver didn't show up or he had to add another truck somewhere....Mom and her mother Bessie, dressed to the nines..Mom hated her hair like that...

Wednesday, 18 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 18 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, cold.  We ironed and I did mending.  Clifton, Jim, David and Wayne went to Albany to get Jim's license but could not get them.  Carol and I painted the table at church.  The three girls and I went to prayer meeting at Lyle's.  Ground still covered with snow.
Comment:  Fickle weather as usual...Mom and her Dad, Clarence with a double team of horses....probably about 1920.........

Tuesday 17 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday 17 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Sunny but cold.  Wayne and I went to Schoharie with Clifton.  We went to Mother's for dinner.  Ethridge got 50 bales of hay.
Comment:  Haying sure wasn't like this in my day.....

Monday, 16 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 16 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cold, windy, cloudy, 32 high.  Clifton and Wayne went to Schoharie in am, home at noon.  Marilyn, Jim and David went to Schoharie in pm after Jim's permit.  I washed and cleaned up the house.  Snow going very slow.  HB called and and said Jim was laid off until he got his license.  Moved washer into wood house.  Had a note from Dougie.  Charles Lee was killed at Potter's Hollow, Carol Cleveland was hurt bad.
Comment:  The Lee's and Clevelands lived in a clutch of cabins and one main house on the Bull Hill Road just past the Young farm.  They were one of the poorest families in the area...I don't seem to remember either of the them....how it was in 1962...

Sunday, 15 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 15 April 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy and cold, 30's.  The three girls, Mrs. Childrens and I went to church and Sunday School.  Clifton and I and the girls went with LaVerne and Roberta to Rudy's in pm.  Eleanor Oman and family were here to see Marilyn in the pm.  Gerald worked Sunday am.
Comment:  Busy Sunday as usual...here is where they visited Rudy's: New Baltimore, NY  Winnie in 1930...

Saturday, 14 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 14 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Miserable day, cloudy, windy, snow squalls, 32 degrees.  Gerald worked.  David, Wayne and Clifton cut wood in am.  The boys went to Prattsville for haircuts in afternoon.  Did a big wash and had to hang it upstairs.
Comment:  I think I hauled milk for Joe Gallo and Prospect Dairies..

Friday, 13 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 13 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy and snow about one inch, 32.  Clifton came home from Schoharie at noon, went to Grand Gorge to pay Paul Becker.  Gerald came home.  Jim went to work at one pm.  Marilyn and I ironed.  Patty had a bad cold and an earache.  David and Wayne went to Roxbury to see Pete Williams.  Wrote to Dougie.
Comment:  Dad is going to pay for tires at Paul Becker's tire store....not sure who Pete Williams was, anybody know?  The cover of Esquire in 1962.....Kennedy's all the rage......

Tuesday 12 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday 12 April 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy 40.  It started to snow about 3 pm.  Marilyn, Jim, and the kids went to Mother's for dinner.  Clifton went to court.  I went to Missionary Meeting at church, election of officers. H.B. Moore called for Jim to come to work at 5 pm.  He went.  Marilyn still didn't feel good and  Patty sick too.
Comment:  H.B. Moore was good employment for the family.  LaVerne, I, now Jim, and later David all drove truck for him.  He had concrete batch trucks, he hauled salt for the winter roads, clinker for the cement plants.  He must have had a hundred trucks of various makes and years.  I drove a brand new batch truck on Andrews Air Force Base, and 12 year old junkers batching on I 84 going north out of Albany.  In '62, both Jim and I hauled clinker from Cobleskill to,  I think, The Hudson Valley Cement Factory....in 1957 Ford Cabovers....and here one is....

Wednesday, 11 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 11 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice day.  We washed.  Clifton was home from Schoharie at noon.  I went to Prattsville with him in afternoon.  Otis and Myrtie came down.  Floyd and Anna (Blakesley) were here for supper.  Marilyn, Carol, Sue and I went to prayer meeting at Louvilla's.  Marilyn was leader, she had bad cold.
Comment:  It's remarkable how social the family was at that time...always going somewhere, lot's of callers and drop-in supper and dinner guests...very connected to the community, friends and family.... Floyd and Anna were Rudy Blakesley's parents and Aunt Winnie's in-laws......Uncle Rudy & Aunt Winnie on the steps of Grandpa Elmer's farm....

Tuesday, 10 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 10 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice day, windy.  I went to court with Clifton, did shopping at Cobleskill, ate dinner there.
Comment: Relaxed

day for Mom....no washing, ironing or cleaning "all through"...

Monday, 9 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 9 April 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Sunny in am, cloudy and rain in pm.  Clifton went to court.  The federal income tax came $373.87. Sue home from school again.  Ethridge got 50 bales and paid $78.  We owed him$12.21 for log drawing.
Comment:  That money in today's terms:  $3746.00,  $820 and $137 not chump change...interesting that they use the idioms "log drawing" and "hay drawing" ......

Sunday, 8 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 8 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Sunny.  Marna was sick and didn't go to church, she stayed with the three boys.  Clifton, the girls and I went to luncheon at parsonage.  Rev Fred Palton guest speaker am and pm services.  Paul, Norma and family and LaVerne & Roberta were here in afternoon and Earl and Lillian.  Clifton, Jim, Carol and I went to church at night.
Comment:  Very busy sunny Sunday....Paul and Norma arriving at '78 family reunion.

Saturday, 7 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 7 April 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Rainy, we washed and hung clothes upstairs.  Jim, David, and Wayne went to Windham in am. Gerald went to work.  Marilyn, Carol, Sue and I went to a business meeting at church at night.  Marilyn cut the girls' hair.
Comment:  I think I was hauling wholesale milk out of Prospect Dairies in Stamford for Joe Gallo.  I delivered crated milk to about six or so creameries along the east side of the Hudson down route 9 to Poughkeepsie, Wappingers Fall,  Fishkill and Peekskill.  Ten to 12 hours and I  got $25  a trip.  Drove a 1959 Ford F900 tractor with 40' reefer...had to handle every damn carton and crate....not bad money for back then..would be about $263 per day today....my truck was green.....

Friday, 6 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 6 April 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice day.  Clifton at court.  Madalyn, Louvilla and I cleaned church in pm.  Marilyn and Jim went to Prattsville.  Carol and Wayne home and kept the children.  Gerald home at night.
Comment:  The weekend begins.....the eldest peers about that time.....more from 47 years ago...Grandma Bessie, her sister Billie and Billie's daughter Judith.....

Thursday, 5 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 5 April 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice day.  I did a big wash.  Carol was home.  Marilyn, Jim, and the girls went to Albany and at Judy and Lyle's for Supper.  Dean was sick and stayed here.  Clifton was at Schoharie.
Comment:  Judy is Mom's half-sister.  Dad still on jury duty.  Here is Judy, Paul Ellis and Lyle in 1978..47 years ago...amazing how well I remember the Hubbard Family reunion of that year.....

Wednesday, 4 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 4 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Marilyn and I cleaned floors and waxed them.  Patty, Dean & Jim didn't feel good. Wayne only one that went to school.  Ethridge got a load of hay.  I wrote to Ella Mae. Had prayer meeting here.  Marilyn and I took supper down to Ella and Merel.
Comment:  Wonder if the family was suffering through this flu pandemic:  "The 1957 pandemic flu had three waves in the U.S. over five years, with a large number of deaths in the winters of 1959 and 1962."...

Tuesday, 3 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 3 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cold, partly cloudy.  I went to Court and up to Mother's with Clifton.  Wayne, David, Sue were home with sore throats, etc.  Carol still didn't feel good.
Comment:  Kids still under the weather....I've had this picture for a long time and still can't figure out who all these kids are, anybody know??  Looks like Ina Belle on the left and maybe Paul Ellis right front??

Monday, 2 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 2 April 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy, windy, 35.  We washed and cleaned.  Clifton went to Schoharie for jury duty.  Carol home sick.  Susan home with bronchitis and Wayne with sore throat.
Comment:  The three youngest under the weather....Wayne was 16, Carol 12, and Susan 10.  1962 Cost of Living:  I remember when a burger was 15 cents at Carroll's, and I was cooking them, thirty at a time.

Sunday, 1 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 1 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, rainy.  Ice on the trees and snowed a little at night.  Marilyn, Jim and family, Carol and I went to church and Sunday School.  Gil & Laura were there.  Marilyn,

and family were at Earl's for dinner. Ronald & Anita and Lynn, LaVerne & Roberta called in afternoon.  Mother called, they were at Billie's.  Sue was better but still coughing.
Comment:  Busy Sunday.....The family in 1962.....

Saturday, 31 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 31 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Lovely day in Oakland, NJ but rained all day here.  I helped Ella Mae wash and clean all through and started for home about 230 pm.  Forgot our suitcase and had to go to Harriman before we could turn around.  Earl and Bob were hear for supper.  Marilyn took Sue to Dr. Lyons in am, she had bronchitis and fever of 103.4.  Ethridge got a load of hay.
Comment:  Shit happens.....Sister's Kids, Marna, Patty , Dean

Friday, 30 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 30 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Lovely day, in 70's.  Helped Ella Mae, Clifton raked lawn.  Pressed curtains for living room and put them up in the afternoon.  Took ride toward Paterson before supper.  Did shopping for Ella Mae in am.
Comment:  This is all taking place in New Jersey where Ella Mae lived.  Meanwhile, back on the Hill, Marilyn and Jim holding sway....their wedding day about 5 years earlier.

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Thursday, 29 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 29 March 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Lovely day, 60's.  We left for Ella Mae's 130 pm.  Stopped in Saugerties, reached Oakland NJ about 5 o'clock.
Comment:  Mom and Dad on road trip to see her cousin in NJ......Mom as a toddler....four years old??

Wednesday, 28 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 28 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Lovely day, 55.  I washed.  Jim and Marilyn went to Conn. to see about a job.  Kids stayed with us. Clifton went to creamery at Roxbury.  Stella (Rogers) and children were here in afternoon.  Ethridge got a load of hay.  Jim and Marilyn ate supper with Paul and Norma.  Earl and Bob were here at night.  Bob went to ballgame with David and Wayne.
Comment:  Again, lots of callers and traveling...Mom must love the fact the Marilyn and family are home again......their family about that time...62 years ago....

Tuesday, 27 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 27 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
We went to Oneonta and got a flat iron with S&H Green Stamps and on to Mother's for dinner. Wayne went too and got his driver's permit.  Clifton went to Union meeting at night, home late.
David was home and went to auction with Earl.
Comment:  Mom underlined home late...

Monday, 26 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 26 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Fourtie's, nice day.  Clifton and Jim went to Windham and around to look for a job.  Marilyn and I cooked and cleaned the house.  Had a letter from Doug, he thought he would come home next week.
Comment:  Early spring so the construction jobs would probably be opening up. Jim and I both drove for HB Moore out of Windham hauling clinker from Cobleskill to the cement plants near Hudson NY.  Here is a picture of Marilyn and Jim's kids:  Marna, Dan and Patty in 1961 on the Hill...

Sunday, 25 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 25 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice day, 30's.  went to Sunday School and church and all of us down to LaVerne's for dinner. Clifford and Evelyn, Winnie, Rudy, Randy, Earl, Bob and Ronnie called in pm.  Marilyn and Carol sang at church, "Burdens Are Lifted At Calvary"
Comment:  Now that's what I call a family Sunday...here is the best version of the hymn that I can find....I'll bet they did a great job...wonder who sang harmony...

Saturday, 24 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 24 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice day.  We washed and ironed for Gerald.
Comment:  It's all about me.......Protecting the homeland....

Friday, 23 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 23 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Sue and Wayne home with sore throats.  We ironed.  Clifton and Jim cut a load of wood.  Ethridge got a load of hay.  I bought four magazines for four years?!!?
Comment:  Mom excited about the magazines....another picture of Jim and probaby his brother Doug with a grandfather?....

Thursday, 22 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 22 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Forty degrees.  I washed.  Marilyn, Jim and two kids went to Cobleskill.  Marna stayed here.  Sue was home with a sore throat.  Marilyn and I went to Margaretville in afternoon to see Ella, Margaret, Irene and Ivan.  Stella (Rogers) called Marilyn.
Comment:  Lots of neighbors in the hospital....Jim Harris, back row middle, with parents and siblings..

Wednesday, 21 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 21 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, rain turning to snow.  Sue came home with a sore throat.  Called Pearl and heard that Ella and Irene still both in hospital.  Ironed nearly all day.  Went to prayer meeting at night at Leonard's (Reynolds).  Marilyn was the leader.
Comment:  A badass Marine....Jim Harris, Sister Marilyn's Husband

Tuesday, 20 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 20 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice day.  We went to Mother's for dinner.  Ella was taken to Margaretville Hospital with pneumonia.  Irene Brown was take too with pleurisy. 
Comment:  Tough start to the spring for some folks.....Aunt Ella on the Hill...Larry, Ella, Frances, Wayne's wife Susan....

Monday, 19 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 19 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice day. 35 degrees.  We, (Jim's and us) went to Stamford in am and stopped where LaVerne works. Phyllis and Sheilla and LaVerne and Roberta were here in afternoon.  Billie called and said Louis Mack was in hospital with blood clot and Betty Jean was in hospital too.
Comment:  Phyllis must be Phyllis West and her daughter up to see Marilyn.  Not sure who Louis Mack was.  Betty Jean was Betty Jean Kingsley...Kool Aid ad from 1962...sure drank a lot of that during haying season.  

Sunday, 18 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 18 March 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, 30's.  We all went to church and Sunday School, David, Wayne too.  Marilyn, Carol, Sue and I went to church in the afternoon for lessons on visitation.  Evelyn and Clifford came in pm and here for supper.  Barry, Bev, Glenn, Patsy, Bonnie here later. Ethridge got a small load of hay in am.
Comment:   Busy Sunday....The whole Clifford's visit...on a sad note, Glenn has only about two more years to live...he died  April 11, 1964...Here are Evelyn and her grandson Mark Taylor in 1978

Saturday, 17 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 17 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice day.  We washed and baked.  LaVerne and Roberta here in the evening.  Men went in woods in am, saw broke.
Comment:  No St. Pat's revelry here.....John Kennedy's St. Patrick's Day Statement:

Friday, 16 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 16 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Thirties, little snow squally.  We ironed, Marilyn baked a batch of cookies and rolls and cinnamon buns.  Clifton and Jim went with Ethridge with a load of logs to Stamford.  Gerald came home about 530 pm.  Earl, Lillian and Bob here in evening.
Comment:  Bet the house smelled great......Jim and his siblings?..sure resembles Hubbard Hill in the early fifties.....

Thursday, 15 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 15 March 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy, 20's.  Marilyn and I cleaned up the house and went calling on Ethyl at Maude's, on Margaret's, Roberta and Merels.  The men went over to Earl's before school to help get the cow up again.  Had a letter from Doug.
Comment:  Marilyn catching up with friends and family...the whole family in 1962...kinda weird to see for some reason....of course, was 62 years ago....

Wednesday, 14 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 14 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Still cloudy and storming.  We washed, went to prayer meeting at Lyle's at night, Marilyn, Carol, Sue and I.  Clifton and Jim cut a load of wood.  Earl was over to get the men to help with a fresh cow. LaVerne and Roberta were here in the afternoon for a few minutes.
Comment:  Must be something pretty wrong with Earl's cow.  A "fresh" cow is one that is having a calf and usually it is pretty routine with no help needed.  The cow usually isn't seen for a while and then is found with a newborn calf.......Here is Patty on the Hill at that time:  

Tuesday, 13 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 13 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Snowy.  We all went to Mother's for dinner, Jim's and us.  Ethridge got a load of hay. Gerald came home at night to see Marilyn and Jim.
Comment:  The family gathers.....Dean and Jim on the hill, 1962

Monday, 12 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 12 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Windy, I washed.  Marilyn, Jim and children came at 11 am.  They had driven through from North Carolina.
Comment:  Short entry probably caused by the reunion.....

Sunday, 11 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 11 March 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice, warm, went to Church and Sunday School and at Raymond and Irene Brown's twenty-fifth anniversary in pm.  Lorraine and Howard's, LaVerne and Roberta here in the afternoon.
Comment:  A twenty-fifth anniversary used to seem such a big deal but since we are facing our sixtieth, not so much. Happy Birthday Wayne Morris Hubbard, B 3.11.1946, D 12.3.2005, Age 59 years old.  His Uncle Earl and Aunt Madeline died at about the same age of heart problems.....does he look cool or what??

Saturday, 10 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 10 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Beautiful, sunny 46 degrees.  Clifton, Wayne and girls went to Catskill to find out what Wayne had won.  Robert brought David home and girls went back with her in am.  I washed in am and baked, ironed pants and shirts in pm.
Comment:  Another mystery, I don't have a clue about Wayne's winnings......and the top hits:  

Friday, 9 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 9 March 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, 34.  I washed.  Clifton cut logs and a load of wood.  Ethridge got a load of hay and paid in full, $41.46.  Earl, Lillian, LaVerne, and Roberta were here at night.  David went home with LaVerne and Roberta to draw mail because we were supposed to have snow but didn't get any.  Marilyn called from Shelby, NC and said they would be here Monday or Tuesday.
Comment:  In a conversation with Dean Harris and wife awhile ago he recalls the trip across country with his parents... this picture is from about that time:  Dean, Jim, Patty, Marna.....

Thursday, 8 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 8 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Beautiful, sunny day, warmer, 38 degrees.  I baked cookies for the PTA, wrote to Myrtie and went to Missionary Meeting in pm at church.  Madalyne went with me.  Sent cookies to PTA with Madalyne.  Had card from Marilyn, they were in Texas when it was sent on Monday. Gulf Oil Company agent was here about boundaries.
Comment:  I think Dad may have sold the gas and mineral rights of the property but not sure.  I don't have any records of it for my property there.  Marilyn and Jim heading to NY to stay for about a year......

Wednesday, 7 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 7 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Beautiful, sunny day, 32 degrees.  I washed bedding and slip covers and cleaned all through.  Prayer meeting at night.  Wrote to Doug.  Earl stopped in and asked us to go to Winnies with them but we didn't go.  Clifton cut logs.  Evelyn Bailey here in pm about Stanley goods, bought floor wax.
Comment:  Pretty busy day.....  

Tuesday, 6 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 6 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, roads icy.  I kept the kids home because of icy roads.  We went to Middleburgh diner for dinner then on to Cobleskill.
Comment:  For Mom to keep the kids home, the conditions must have been pretty bad...Dad had a neon green Plymouth just like this....I did severe damage to it twice, both times in Prattsville...what's that tell you....that damned Prattsville Tavern

Monday, 5 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 5 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, very light snow in am.  Fine rain in pm,  25 degrees.  I washed in am and ironed in pm and baked rolls.  Marilyn and Jim's mail was forwarded here.  A letter from their bank and a letter of mine returned.  We called Doug at the Chicken Farm and he said Marilyn and Jim left March 1st.  LaVerne and Roberta here at night.  David went home with them to go with Roberta with the mail because of icy roads.  Ethridge got a load of logs.
Comment:  A longer entry...did not realize Doug was in California....The World's Fair was held in Seattle in 1962 and thence came the space needle....

Sunday, 4 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 4 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice, warmer, 20's, cloudy in pm.  We went to church and Sunday School.  Beverly came home with us and stayed all night.  Clifford's were over to Earl's for Dinner.
Comment:  Don't know who Beverly is.....1962 Coke Ad...Was it a simpler time, not sure......

Saturday, 3 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 3 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Sunny, cold, minus 8 to 15 above.  Gerald went back in the afternoon for play practice.  David and Wayne cut a load of wood.
Comment:  I practice, brothers work, seems ok to me....our search options sure have changed.....

Friday, 2 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 2 March 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Bright and cold, eight below to 15 above.  I washed.  David was home with a boil, he and Clifton cut a little wood.  Gerald came home at 5 pm.  Wayne went to the game at Duanesburg.  Clifton, the girls and I went to a "42" party at Louvilla's.  Keyers, Cammers and Chip's were there too.  Betty Jean was home for two weeks vacation.
Comment:  Busy Friday night...from 1962...the latest in telephones, now, all and more included in your smartphone....

Thursday, 1 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 1 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Bright, clear, cold, 15.  Clifton and David went to Windham and Albany.  I finished my dress.  Sue was home with a stiff neck and headache.
Comment:  Clear and cold bring back the memories of how beautiful it was in those mountains....from Visions Of Schoharie County: