Picto Diary - 02, 03, 04 July 2018 - Provo Fourth
Above: Selfie? Home. Park City, UT. 04 July 2018
Back home on the Duc.
Happy Independence Day.
Breaking 15 year long annual tradition, I'm going to miss the Park City 4th of July Parade today.
Instead, I'm riding the Duc 60 miles to Provo to see their parade...the parade I grew up with.
TIMDT didn't want to go... which was bad and good. I'd enjoy something like this more with her along... but, on the other hand, being on the Duc, I'll have no problem finding a parking place near to where I want to be... near my old stomping grounds, where I grew up, 500 East and Center Street.
Above: Utah Highway Patrol Motors. Provo Fourth of July Parade. Provo, UT 04 July 2018.
Precision riding.
BMW RT-P bikes.
Above: Provo High School Marching Band. Fourth of July Parade, Provo, UT. 04 July 2018.
Bishop played trombone in this band, this parade, 1962.
Back then, the trombones were on the front row. I was front, far left... the position that keyed all the other marchers.
All bands here...more precision and more complex cadences than in my day.
But, Mr. Brady did his best.
Note: Something else different than my day. Individuals (likely parents, teachers etc.) walk along side each band and periodically spray cool water on the necks of the band members to cool them off. Volunteers, carrying water bottles would walk amidst the marching band members and squirt water into their mouths.
It was hot! But, so was it then. Had we just missed out on an innovation in marching band comfort yet to be discovered, or were we just tougher? Dumber?
Above: Baloon. Fourth of July Parade. Provo, UT. 04 July 2018
Macy's Thanksgiving now in Provo?
Many more spectators than in my day in the early '60's. Ten deep on both sides for two miles. Lottsa kids, as you would expect in Utah County.
Above: Sweepstakes Winner. Mountain Credit Union. Provo Fourth of July Parade. 04 July 2018.
Vera Jensen home. Center Street between 400 and 500 East.
I stood in front of that home to watch the parade today. When we lived in this neighborhood in the late '50's and early '60's annually we joined Vera, Mom's friend, on her porch to watch the 4th of July Parade.
Vera had a granddaughter, Christine Stevens. Christine lived in Texas, but, spent the summers with her grandmother in Provo. So, I knew Christine.
After today's parade I walked up to the house and asked a man seated on the stoop if he was a descendent of Vera Jensen. He said yes, but by marriage to one of her great granddaughters. He pointed to a woman on the porch and said she was his mother in law, and a granddaughter of Vera.
It was Christine.
I introduced myself. She remembered Mom and me. We had a nice visit about the old days, 60 years ago.
Above: 50 (circa)North 500 East. Provo Fourth of July Parade. 04 July 2018.
Where I lived from 1957 to 1965.
The old poplar tree in back, much pruned from those days, is still alive. — at Provo 4Th Of July Parade.
Above: Maeser School, now apartments. Provo Fourth of July Parade. 04 July 2018. My Duc parking place, only a block and a half from where I was able to watch the parade.
Here I attended third through sixth grades.
500 East between 200 South and 300 South.
3rd grade teacher Mrs. Cutler told me I was a good writer.
After I taunted Jack Lott, 5th grade, he chased me around the playground, caught me, and beat the crap out of me. No anti bullying programs in those days.
Kent Cloward would never wear the new watch he got for Christmas. He said he didn't want to lose it.
Sadly, I was never invited to Irene Green's parties.
The building doesn't look so big. When I went to school there, it was huge!
— at Provo 4Th Of July Parade.