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Roughing it with Gramp

We got to Dover, Delaware, at midnight, and what we saw of the town in 1920, when Gramp and Mama and myself were touring in our old car, is most likely what the town looks like today.
May 1955
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Roughing It with Gramp

For me, there are only two cities in America that have special grace and flavor that rise above the flat level of living in this wonderful country. They arc San Francisco and New Orleans.
January 1954
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Roughing it with Gramp

Gramp always had an idea, in 1920, when he and I and Mama crossed and recrossed America, why the covered wagons went West and didn'r come back.
December 1953
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Roughing it with Gramp

I never see San Francisco without getting a bang out of the hills wrapped in mist, the houses clinging to their steep sides, the gray-silver skies, the sweep of sea on the Golden Gate.
May 1953
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Roughing it with Gramp

Going west from Denver in 1919, even in our new Studebaker, wasn't easy. The roads were a mockery of the word road.
January 1953
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Roughing it with Gramp: Part III

Gramp held the steering wheel like death's other brother and pulled the gas lever down until we hit a neck-breaking thirty miles an hour.
December 1951
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Roughing it with Gramp: Part II

It was spring all the time. Spring when it was summer and spring when it was autumn; because I was very young and Gramp was very old.
October 1951
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Roughing it with Gramp: Part I

October 1951
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