Leinard Garage
By: Stan Jordan
From what I can remember and I’m not sure at all, Jack Leinard and Harry Parent started this business about 1932. Then I think Harry Parent sold out and went to New Haven and then it became Leinard Chevrolet.
If you will notice, in the picture it shows Leinard’s has two big doors. Well it started with one big door. In the 1930’s and a little longer that far door to the right was a wooden building where a man, P.B. Hipkins has a tin shop, metal roofing and spouting. It came to pass, later Leinard bought the building and enlarged his own and it ended up as it shows here.
Leinard Chevrolet was a very successful business and son Lyle entered after he finished school. Over the years they acquired that lot to the north and a couple lots across the street.
Across the street the first two lots south of the Bee Argus was the Gordon Brothers Hardware and it was destroyed by fire in 1940. The Leinard’s had that side built in the 1970’s and a one time was a machine shop and display of new cars for sale.
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MORE ON THE WILD LIFE
By: Stan Jordan
I just received a letter from Nancy Klingler over in Oakwood about seeing a bald eagle out in the field and on the return said eagle had flown up in a big tree. Yes they are getting more acclimated to humans all the time. I’m sure there is a nest or so in the Oakwood area or maybe a little north. Thanks for that report.
Our son, Gale, lives a little south of the Power Dam and he sees bald eagles pretty regularly. They are darn near common place. I’m glad to hear that.
The other day when we had those two very cold days, I stayed home both days, but looking out the kitchen window, I saw a woodpecker and I am positive he is a pileated variety. He works mostly on the south side of the walnut tree in the sunshine because that would be warmer, but I couldn’t see him on that side.
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• A lady with one leg shorter than the other, is called Leena
• This blonde was so clumsy, she kept tripping over the wire to her cell phone.
• This blonde wanted the mechanic to put some 710 in her engine. The boy, after a number of explanations, showed her from the other side of the engine it said OIL.
• This lady said she wanted all of her dead husbands to look nice, so she took them all to the cleaners.
• The Baltimore Orioles is named after Lord Baltimore, he was very interested in wild life.
• Do you know why a hummingbird hums? He doesn’t know the words.
• A man stood on the side of the road hitchhiking on a very dark night in the middle of a storm.
As the night went by no cars passed him. The storm was so strong, he could hardly see a few feet ahead of him. Suddenly he saw a car come towards him and stop.
The guy, without thinking about it, got in the car and closed the door to realize that nobody was behind the wheel. The car started slowly. The guy looked at the road and saw a curve coming his way. Scared, he started praying, and begged for his life. He hadn’t come out of shock, when just before the curve, a hand appeared through the window and moved the wheel. The guy, paralyzed in terror, watched how the hand appeared every time before a curve.
The guy gathered strength, got out of the car and ran to the nearest town. Wet and in shock, he ran into a bar and asked for two shots of tequila and started telling everybody about the horrible experience he went through. A silence enveloped everybody when they realized he was crying and wasn’t drunk.
About half an hour later, two guys walked into the same bar and the one said to the other, “Look Bubba, that’s the jerk who climbed into the car while we were pushing.”
BUS DRIVERS, I LOVE ‘EM
By: Stan Jordan
There are many classes or types of bus drivers, like school bus drivers, cruise bus, Greyhound, army bus, rest home buses or vans… there are many vehicles in this group.
Here of late, in the news there have been accidents where buses are involved. Different types of buses but still one type of driver, a human being.
In most of the accidents involving a bus, the bus driver is not to blame. In one case the bus driver was forced off the road, another a bridge collapsed, another a big truck side swiped the bus. I could go on, but when ever I hear of an accident involving a bus with kids or athletes or older people, right away we think of the bus driver, but in most cases, the bus driver is in the right.
A bus driver is a special type of person. They all realize they have a number of lives in their hands. They are a special type of person, I love ‘em.
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