my grandfather kept a log of the trip cross country in 1955. I have scanned it, and typed the text for easier reading.
Friday, October 16, 2015
metal stand - same as we have in Boston Offices only that the water contains Fluorine. That is what everybody at least in this home drinks. Being a Nurse Kay has been conscious of the poor teeth and not long after they came out here they started going to a young modern dentist with the result that the three eldest all wear what they call spacers. They are actually false teeth on a plate to fill in the places where their first teeth had been pulled. This insures when their permanent teeth come in they will be straight and not our of line. Bob feels there has been a definite improvement in their teeth since they started using the Fluorated water. Back in that dentist Period they spent nearly $300. The Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts are quite an organization out this way and at the time the kids join up the parents are given to understand but definitely that this is a cooperative affair and the the parents expected to take an active part in cooperation w/the other parents. Big Bob is a Chief and he is called Thunder-Wonder and young Bob is called Little Thunder-Wonder. Bob is a Union Plumber and the Union Scale calls for $3.34 per hour. No Saturday work unless a real emergency. On rare occasions they might work nine hours per day. His work will vary from 5 miles to 17 miles from home. Kay as a Registered Nurse works in the Los Freitas maternity hospital usually as night duty from 11 PM to 7 AM. There is a tremendous shortage of qualified Nurses out here. The two oldest go to school -Patty Ann to Nursery school and if she returns to work in September, Debby the 3 1/2 yr old will also go to Nursery School. It all seems to work out all right. Kay has a woman come in once a week for general cleaning @ $1.00 per hour. They pay the Bank $83 monthly which includes Taxes and Insurance.
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