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Saul Odom at -#i;ree months, May 1975, playinghis favorite game...pretending to swallowpeople.


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Cur new GMC panel delivery in May 1975, justfore we had a new Printing Center signited on it.

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Rick and Martha coining out of his house onBarksdale Air Force base in Shreveport, at255 Pelican Drive.

Saul Odom at four months, posing with his newsuit and hat. Nancy picking up her new Pacer at the dealer'sin May 1975.

Sam Hawks and his Cessna 31O, from El Paso.It crulsest 210 mp&, and holds up to sixpeople.Model helicopter that sounded like a real one,and hovered, flew backward and forward, onradio controls.


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a;3Tiny one-man helicopter at air show. Too proprotated freely, while propeller pushed it forward.

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Printing Center "fleet" in May 1975. The center Ford is a used beer truck, and gives usnothing but trouble.r

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Hot air balloon at air show taking off. Theblower makes lotsAf noise, and is used spasmodically when needed to rise.

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72-foot deep-sea fishing boat out of Galvestonthat took Paul and Bowater party on stormy,seasick fishing party in June, 1975*

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Model Bell helicopter at air show at Oak Grovethat was f an exact duplicate of the real thing,

Colorful home-made plane at air show. A rarebiplane.

Tiny one-passenger "biplane at air show. Didvery colorful stunting.

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Unique pusher seaplane, handy in that you canset her down on any lake.

Old World tfar II BT-13 (basic trainer), veryfast, but expensive to run.

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Custom car show in Fort Worth, showing bizarre and uni-que imagination. Many of these dandy models don't run...they are just to look at.

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Custom car designs at Fort Worth car show in May 1975.The super-decorated U.S. Mail Cushman is a real imaginative model.

Printing Center with Shopper anddowntown Fort Worth in the background.Front office of Printing Centerwith Debbie and Irene hard atwork.


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Modern home of Jack Jordan Typesetting at Bel-knap and Jones in downtown Fott Worth. Home of the Fort Worth Press, after its c. s-ing in June 1975. Paul worked there in 195?.^pSfr

Old Carter Field air terminal, now deserted,and parking lot in weeds. It never went over,and was never really operational.Back view of Carter Field with long fingers outto planes that never came in. Two old planesin the weeds look like buzzards have been at em

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New segment of South Freeway going in in June1975. Supposed to take three years/to completeit's going to be a long wait.

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Part of guests of Bowater Paper Co. fishinparty at Freeport, at dinner at Freenort Inn.Sam Hawks sitting next to Pail.


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Paul, Bob, Ida and Ernest in Topeka to honorErnie after his many years of service to hischurch and community.

Ernie preaching his last sermon as regular cast o r . . .although he will no doubt preach manysermons as supply pastor.

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Ernest's church in Topeka, Kansas, at the occasion of his retirament as pastor in June of1 9 7 5 .

Evan Tonsing, of Stillwater, Okla.; Fred Ton-sing of Santa Barbara, Calif.; and Dorothy addErnie beaming at the thought of retirement.


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A weekend of drag racing at Green Valley Raceway north-east of Fort Worth. Here are dozensof hopeful racers lined up for their turns.Plastic body raised, attendant is starting themotor of racer, with driver in asbestos suit,resembling a spaceman.

Two i^xrly conventional dragsters taking offto the scream of motors and burning rubber.They go a quarter mile in a straight line.

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Two racers ready to start at green light. Theyrelease parachutes to help stop after theirquarter mile timed run.

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"Rail job" getting prepared to race. Its trailer built to fit is next to it. This racing isa religion to some devotees.Exotic racer, one of dozens, all different...some getting better than 200 miles per hourat the end of the quarter mile.


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Scene across the common at Six Flags, visitedby Paul countless times, perhaps 50 or 60, andenjoyed each time.Danny and Laura petting the goats at Six FlagsOver Texas in July 1975. All parties concernedacted a little bored at the procedure.

3*Nancy, Saul, Danny and Laura at Buerger's Lakein Fort Worth, trying to sink a truck tube. Itwas Saul's first swim, and he acted like a vet,

Night stock car racing at Kannedale, the poorman's racer. Exciting with wrecksand tempersshowing, but pretty noisy.

Rosemary, Rick, Laura and Danny in Fort Worthin front of their '73 Buick...in July of 1975,after return from North Carolina.Laura and Danny sharing Saul. She's 7, Danny is5, and Saul five months. They play very amia-


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D e c o r a t ive z ipp e r m ot i f on s id e of W i l l i a m son-D i c k i e c l o t h i n g p l a n t i n F o r t W o r th . B r i l l i a n t m ur a l on t he Fo r t Worth B i l l i a r d Supp l y b u i l d i n g i n 1 9 7 5 .

Pa ul , Nancy, Si , Jane , Mar tha and Saul a t Sundayd inne r a t t he P i c ka r d house i n Ju ly 1975 . Fou r th of Ju ly f i r e w or k s a t E ve rm an w hich l a s t ed some 15 minutes @ some $12.50 p e r s h o t .

Danny with his first experience with sparklers,couldn't he turned off. Laura, Rosemary, Rick and Danny firing up afew sparklers on the Fourth of July,Everman.


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One of the Miehle sheet-fed offset presses atthe job shop in "Plant #2 ." Printing Center's "job shop", looking at thecutter, folder and storage area, in 1975*

Picturesque building near Waco, Texas thatstarted out a restaurant, add has had a succession of other tries...beautiful but impractical.New train in Forest Park, at $25,000 each train.On the old five-mile track. Train turned overthe day before this picture, injuring 18. Shouldhelp business by adding a little excitement.

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JrVintage fire truck in Austin park for kidsbenefit. They've already been hard on it, andstolen the motor out of it.

Danny on part of the wonderful maze built forkids at Austin. Looks dangerous, but lots ofsand underneath to fall onto.


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Old control board on the Queen Mary, embellished with the addition of the board on top explaining how the propulsion system works.

Cne of several "islands" in the harbor at LongBeach, Calif. They are off-shore drilling rigsand in order not to be eyesores, the city specified they be disguised as tropical islands, sothe buildings are fakes.

Al Samaniego on the bridge of the Queen Mary.A marvelous old ship, but just too old to compete with later ships and planes.

Research submarine on board the Queen Mary aspart of the marvelous undersea museum and exhibits.

The diver's a dummy, but not the propeller. Itis one of the Queen Mary's, and they've builta room around it, filled with fresh water.There were originally four, and they junked theothers.

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Looking aft of the bow on the Queen Mary atLong Beach. It's cost from $50 million to $200million so far, but is a marvelous tourist trapand should pay the city back in time. Part ofit is a Hyatt hotel and convention center.


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Los Angeles "Love Parlour" at 9 o'clock on Saturday morning. Two girls in the window disappeared when they saw the camera, and the mancame out and yelled as we drove off.Beautiful restaurant at LA airport. Looks likeit turns, but it doesn't. Designed to kill timewhile waiting for planes, as a meal takes twoor three hours, very pleasantly,

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Old frame house on Carmen Avenue in Hollywood,where Paul roomed in 1938-^1. The Ingrams madeit Just like home.Memoriesi Old San Diego IMCA where Paul spentmany an hour, homesick for civilian life. Theywere wonderful to servicemen with services andhospitality.


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Filming a scene in Universal Studios in Hollywood, with audience participation. Al Saman-iego is the "policeman" in the center.

Another scene with Al by the hood of the stripped down police car. A real film was made andsold to "actors" and audience.

A--iIn Universal Studio makeup show, a touristcouple submitted to being made up as Mr. andMrs. Karloff.

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Fake Alpine scene at Universal Studio. Rocks,snow and some of the trees were fake, and tunnel gave illusion of turning over.

Real steam engine coming at us while our girlguide screamed on cue as we crossed in frontof it. It stopped four feet short, and thedummy engineer kept waving at us .

Parting of the Red Sea on studio baek lot. Onemoment it's unbroken water, then giant rubberwalls rise, the water drains out holes in thebottom, and vehicles can cross over.


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"Rain" and fake gully-washer in UniversalStudios in Hollywad, in July 1975. A tree evencomes crashing down d few feet from bus.#

Real studio filming with Robert Wagner, is interrupted while our caravan of buses passes.We watched a "chase" up a hill.

It used to be "Boon docks" in San Diego behindthe Navy and Marine bases, and now is a beautiful park and hotel, ala South Pacific.One of the units of the Cottrell 1650 Al Sam-aniego and Paul went to Los Anggles to see. Ithad been in a fire.

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The units were not really burned, but singedand had water damage. A real clean-up job andtearing down would get them running.Another unit of the Cottrell, which was usednine months, then burned In Grand Junction,Colorado in 197*f.


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The U.S.S. Ranger? an active carrier, withboth jets and helicopters. Elevator can beseen on the side.

A giant tanker under construction in San Diego,Not one of the biggest, but still gigantic.Several other ships were on the ways.

The U.S.S. Long Beach, a missile launcher, andnuclear powered. Needs refueling every sevenyears. Long, lean and mean.Antique sailing ship in San Diego, anchored formany years and serves as floating museum andtourist attraction.

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A submarine tender at the same dock we usedin April 1975 on the Rotterdam. All the carson the flight deck are transported for the crew.V/reck of German ship near the skyline of down-town San Diego. It was to be broken up, when itsunk here. Oil leaked up on the shore (dark line!


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iPrinting Center picnic, ;sl* t Camp Carter, on Lake V/orth, with 160 personsattending, in August 19 75.


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Small sailboat in the lock between the Chicagoriver and Lake Michigan. The lock keeper kepttelling the skipper he couldn't go up the riv-er , and the Coast Guard sent up a small boat,but he must have had influence, for he went upthe r iver, with them raisim all the bridges.

U.S. postoffice in Chicago, the only one inthe world where you can drive thru at 55 mph.Rather than take another r oute with the free-way, they just run in thru the lower floor ofthe building.

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Due of dozens of bridges along the Chicagoriver, raised on this occasion to let a smallsailboat thru. We were told they rarely raise,USS Silversides, a big submarine at Chicago,one of the old timers. It was operational,but looked r un down and in poor shape.

Beautiful Hilton Hotel near airport in Chi-cago. All the windows are gold, and with thejfun in the right direction it is brilliant.Newsprint carrier unloading along the Chicagcriver at the Chicago Tribune dock. It comesin from Canada.


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The new Sears building in Chicago,the world's tallest.now

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Beautiful Chicago office buildingwithout a straight line around it.Wind striking such buildings in the"Windy City" creates prollems/forpedestrians in the streets below.

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The famed Chicago Loop, with train on overheadtrack. Further out it becomes a subway. Underblocks and blocks of the Loop are stores andstreets that never see sunlight.

Chicago's weekend navy, with reservists on alarge PT boat cruising on Lake Michigan on abeautiful August Sunday.

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IAncient proof presses, made in the fashion ofold George Washington hand presses, among acollection of five in Chicago printing supplycompany. The presses are priceless, and theplace is locked and barred like a jail.

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Millrace of old mill in Ottawa, Canada, inAugust 1975

Beautiful gardens in full bloom in Ottawa inthe saarcmer of 1975* Wa Reached on a bus touraobard an old London bus.

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Old mill building, abandoned for many years,and recently remodeled inside into a very finerestaurant, near downtown Ottawa.

Rejuvinated building near downtown Ottawa, withthe facade of old small building pasted intac*onto one of its back walls. Must have been areal job.

Cherry and Joelle in Ottawa, onValentine's day in 1975


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Fishing boat at Freeport, Texas, taken by V?Printing Center employees and friends on a verysuccessful kingfish expedition in August 1975*

Tin coalman, truly a work of art, in front ofa bank near Colorado Springs. Full size, andappears to be made of old rusted car parts.

Gulf shrimp boat out of Freeport. The crewssleep and loafl all day, and shrimp at night.The large boards on each se are dragged onthe bottom, and the shrimp go into the nets.Burned out remains of old Swift building on thenorth side of Fort Worth. Presently being dismantled brick by brick for their sale.

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Old Will Rogers train, rusting for many yearsalong Will Rogers coliseum, and later at theDepot of Supplies, being rebuilt and refluvin-ated in August 1975.

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Two or three men are working on the old WillRogers engine, to get it ready to run on a bicentennial celebration in 1976. It looks impossible at this stage.


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Victor, Colorado, once the home of many thou-sands high above Colorado Springs, now with afew hundred.

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Beautiful chapel at the Air Force Academy atColorado Springs. The spires are made of alum-inum , and caused a furor at the time of build-ing at the great expense.

Beautiful mall between buildings at the AirForce Academy at Colorado Springs, with fourold jets gracing each corner.

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Interior of the Air Force chapel,absolutely gorgeous.Downtown Cripple Creek, Colorado, once the goldcapital of Colorado, and dead for many years,is showing signsy6f life as the price of goldhas made mining profitable. There is plenty ofgold there...it just didn't pay to dig it out.


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Fine col le ct ion of old automobiles, ai rpl ane s, hel ic opt -e r s , space vehicles, trains anfl "boats, at the Pate Mus-eum of Transpor ta ti on , south of Fort Worth on the Cressonhighway. The museum is f ree.

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Unique street sign at Galveston, which we couldnot resist photographing. Apparently a statussymbol, for everyone knows you'd be higher onthe pecking order if you lived on P, not Pi.

Collection of old steam engines at Cressen, Texwhich belong to a retired railroad man/farmer.He often cranks one up on Sundays and performsto the admiration of neighbors and visitors.

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#The submarine "Cavalla" at Galveston, at Sea-wolf Park, along with a Navy destroyer escort,an Army tank and a jet trainer.

Inside the Cavalla, this is one of the largediesels that powered her on the surface, andrecharged the batteries.

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One of several torpedo tubes on the Cavalla,which was built in 19^3j saw service in WWII,and decomissioned in 197*+.

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Control panel with steering mechanism on the Cavalla. If I couldspell claustrophobia, I'd saythat you'd suffer from it here.

More controls. It must have beenunbearably noisy and smelly onboard one of these craft. Thatwas before the days of OSHA!


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The command post at Houston Space Center, withall the controls dark. A poor picture, takenthru glass, but really an impressive room.

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Moo. ,ar, a replica of the one that was takento tne moon and left there. It cost many mil-lions, and was powered by batteries.

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Real moon rocks in a glass case at the spacecenter. Probably priceless, but very unim-pressive..

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Cramped seats aboard the above spacecraft, thatallowed little space for movement. It takes abrave man to stay in there very long.Two lonely old LCT's at Orange, Texas, waitingto be broken up for scrap. The last of an en-ormous mothball fleet quartered there.


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The day of delivery of our 1975 Lincoln Continental in October 1975. A very nice car, withvery few bugs.

MThe ill-fated Fort Worth Press # 2, resurrectedby Dean Singleton in August 1975, and lasting3 months. The subject of endless conversation." * l w

Back yard at 6913 Sheridan in Fort Worth, withthe largest kids1 sand pile in town at theright, for Eaura and Danny.

Rear window of Nancy's Pacer, crystallized oneemorning, whether due to heat expansion or vandalism, we'll never know.

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Headquarters of the Azle Tribune, started byRoy and Carolyn Bilberry in mid-1975...andfated to do very well.

Flags and regalia at the State Fair of Texas in1975. Always entertaining, and said to be thebiggest state fair in the USA.


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String picture, Martha's gift toPaul, and made by her, Christmas1975.

Danny and his string of trout,caught at Grapevine Lake.

Martha, Rick, Saul, Dan and Laura examine theChristmas tree goodies...1975.

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Stray swarm of bees which came to roost undera spare car in the Printing Center parkinglot.

15Jack and Dorothy Jordan's Granbury Lake cabin,which they built from scratch, with the helr/ofa neighbor or two.


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Saul Odom as he ne~osteps early in 1976.

Load of newsprint, dumped off truckwhich turned over and dumped downgulley off the toll road.

Saul Odom's surprise birthday party, #1, onJanuary 23, 1976.

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George Parker's barbecue palace in Colleyvillewhere he's the king of barbecue. '

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Rick, coming in from Wichitgfon Amtrak, andbeing greeted by Laura and Dan.


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fEngine No. 610, after rotting for years atWill Rogers Coleseum, and rebuilt over thelast two years, to pull the BicentennialFreedom Train.

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Beautiful birthday cake for Paul'sbirthday, made by Louise Rushing,and decorated with interesting ev-ents during the years.

Another ola stee/ Lne, which pulled theFreedom train into Fort Yforth, when old 610took over for t>art of the tour.

Saul, posing as a streaker, on thebeach at Galveston.Six Flags in March 1976, with their two boysand girl.


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