Aug 15 Sunday to Aug 20, Friday We left 10 AM on our driving trip to Niagara Falls, Cape Cod, Syracuse and visits to the kids in camp. Today we saw Sylvia in Quannacut Camp, Pine Bush. She was in fine spirits. We stopped at the American Switzerland Motel in Roscoe where mom found small ants had gotten in our food in the morning. Monday we got to Niagara Falls, crossed to Canada, and stopped at Mrs Daley's Tourist Home. We saw the beautiful spectacle of the falls under colored lights. Tuesday back to the U.S. side and viewed the falls close up - a breathless sight. We got to Syracuse and Sadie's about 7 P.M. where we were received with hospitality. We saw Mrs Kreuger, Sadie as ever, Bernie paunchy and composed, Fredi - husky, Arline - thin, Robert - a rascal. We had supper slept over and left after breakfast. This evening we stopped right in the village of Sturbridge, Mass, "Ye Olde Homestead" where the trucks rolling by kept us up some of the night. Thursday we reached Cape Cod, stopping at the Casa Brazil in Provincetown. We saw the Provincetown Playhouse, beaches, art in the store windows, shopped in the gift shops, saw the Pilgrim monument, etc. Friday we travelled [sic] all day and made New York by 8 o'clock 350 miles. On the trip we had breakfast and suppers out but ate lunch in picnic areas.
This trip was one day after his final driving lesson? Dad doesn't say when he got his driver's license or, for that matter, when we actually got the car (a 1954 Chevrolet). He says they were visiting "the kids in camp", but nothing about a visit to me. Also, this was the first diary entry where he referred to his wife as "mom", probably because they were visiting their daughter.
Aug 17 The "House" voted to outlaw the C.P. 305-2
Aug 20 Dr De Gasperi is dead at 73.
Aug 21 We saw a delightful comedy "Genevieve" at the Valentine with John Gregson and Dinah Sheridan. Also, "Glory at Sea". Eisenhower vetoed the pay rise bill.
The bill which was vetoed was for a pay rise for federal employees, which included Dad, a postal worker. Hence the red ink, for significance.
Looking back, my comments on the 8/15-8/20 entry were completely wrong. Later, in September, dad writes that they bought the car, picking it up on 9/14. Even later, on 10/14, dad took his road test, and got his license on 10/19. The trip above was clearly taken (as Silvia said in a comment on the 9/12-9/18 entry) with his parents in their car, and the reference to "mom" in the entry is, as always, to his mother. It just remains strange that he doesn't say "with mom and pop" in the first sentence.
ReplyDeleteI forgot to mention the part about the visit to me; they did that the following Sunday, 8/22.
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