Were you guys are hooligans.

WELL A friend of mine who lived over on the next street came to me for some reason we got the argument for something and I don't remember what it was.

He got so mad and he took a swing and he hit me in the head and it hurt his hand so bad that he had to go into the host haven't taken care of and he came out. I won't say crying but you know we whimpering because it still hurts so bad apologized for getting so bad and stuff.

Halloween trick or treating. We go on and never do dare. We knew there was nothing we'd be always be careful that we didn't do any damage to anything but we would make it known that we were there and. Maybe throw some toilet paper into the tree or something like that. I was amazed. I don't remember ever. Being with a bunch of guys were damaging something was one of us. The thing to do.

One time one of the streets was being repaired and there's all kinds of cement blocks and stuff. It was Halloween again and it was a side street. So we went out and made a barricade in the middle of it with the stick with the building materials you know if the car had to get around they could and we decorated it so the body would hit it.

So you kind of made you made a snow fort out of a building materials.

What are some other memories you have like that having a baseball and of course the baseball cards softball excuse me feel that the old Franklin but the diamond was here in right field was the principal's office on the second floor and the goal was who could get it far enough and high enough to put out one of the windows.

I was going to say Did anybody ever get anybody get a rack.

But it was one of those you know things that laughable don't get a kick about.

And we actually let her know that that was kind of a fun thing and she's oil is big enough and strong enough to have a ball she knew they would. And.

You know another memory I have is north of KMag. If you go a few miles north there's an old Norwegian church there that still does it really do to Fisks supper or dinner. I don't know if they still do. One time my two brothers guy and another couple people went up there sat at the table and looked around. And here is the elementary school teachers. I'll give one name that a concerned member my Zanders third grade wonderful and wonderful lady that loved every one of us and we all loved her. But she was also a wonderful teacher. But I don't remember the names of the other. But there was either four or five of them sitting there and we sat there and just had the most fun time talking about schooling at Franklin and eating Fisk Yeah you were one of them finally said My brother was sitting on the start on the sidewalk. And when he says to the waiter would you mind stirring the plate here. So it ends up there because no one ever gets by him.

That's the uniform in which appearance.

So we talked a little earlier about the the little houses and how the house you grew up in.

It's had a couple of different expansions if you will over the years. Could you imagine a family nowadays living into a house basically the size of the room that we're in right now.

No. It had a total of six hundred twenty square feet and one bathroom that also was the laundry room and other things. And they had one sink a shower and a stool. That was the toilet Lowe's kitchen which was half as big as this room. And that's where we eat also. And then two small bedrooms each one about two thirds the size of this room. And then the other was open area which was just a general living space. And then when I guess they got their first TV like it was out of the service and came back. I told the story about the fake TV stories that you know we just lived in and I don't mean the TMT family but we because I think I see I've shared this now with others that live didn't have a bead yet you know six square block area that I lived in. We lived a happy life.

Well first barbershop.

OK. That if you looked out my front window he was in the building right over there and we'd sit there and say Burr's barbershop membership because they have sat in the front of it. That would be nice. They would say that and it was a wonderful place a good place where people would hang the old waiting for their haircuts cause sunburn can garments were there and they were the barbers in almost every athletic team in the West know whatever would come in there for their haircuts. So they look great cool and then all all member the old folks and let him cut his hair. But there's another one down in the corner of the tavern is now where barbershops back in those days kind of territorial.

So you always went to bars and somebody always went to John sales and somebody I went to Smitty's and stuff like that.

You had your barber shop and frankly your barber and you know you mentioned before on George Street. That was the mind of the tavern's from Reon Sam's on the north down to Paris barbershop there's a tavern there now and he was there and then there's the whole building now.

And then the North Star the WW. And I can't think of the name of the other one but they weren't drunken places. There were places where people they had their their bar that they go and sit and talk and have a beer or two you know and that sort of thing. Do you remember your first beer. He was at the WWE tavern and just a very very small class and he was one I said when I'd go over there on a new year's eve and Christmas Eve also but New Year's Eve because Trinity Lutheran those days had a watch service at 11 to 12 Michael so I'd go pick up the in the tenor section at the w w we go down there and go on and one time they said here you deserve one. And you know just the littlest. Oh I know. All three owns classes like this and I don't know that he. Drank it all and they all got a kick out of it.

And a nice glass of Pepsi Pepsi would have them because I know we were on the Pepsi side of the Pepsi Coke for other than the north side of lacross called Just lacross or was it called Southside or was well what was the name of South of North lacross. Well we called it the south side on the north side but it was all the city of the cross and that.

We have heard crowd er side as they were this house I don't mean to put them down or anything but the south side was just spread so far. I can't remember the name of the man who developed what was the village shopping center before he developed that. If you drove up way back in the back corner about where the central football field is.

There was a small restaurant that was as far south as the Cross went.

Basically you know there were some housing and stuff but the that Evoque area ended there and then I can think of the man's name but he then the vote the village shopping centre which created a lot of other development and then the hoses that are south of there particularly on the east side were developed by a developer and he was basically copying the houses that were built up in Minneapolis. He may even come from there. I don't look at them when I used to do the history that I don't remember all that much but that's why so many of them look very much alike. Is that way the North Side is sometimes considered like Old Town and Old Town north because it was the where basically the Cross started and kind of spread out from here well there and the immediate downtown area you know Cass Street King Street Market Street and that sort of thing from there. Yeah there was there that was really the original lacross and the the rich. Don't tell anybody not to ask there was that the original among the patrons were there all of their homes the big ones and chaos and King those buying mansions.

That's where they lived were you ever friends with people from.

You mentioned Onalaska so like Onalaska or Kusum his cousin's mother and uncle he didn't work at the brewery and he'd ride in there and stuff and he died like my father at a very young age. He's my father's brother but the air telephone operation from Alaska was in their living room it was all very small it was just a very very small community all the way through the the fifties kind of a troublemaker.

It's a bit I'm a person who loves to put ideas out there and maybe even get people to think about things