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I can't remember not knowing my buddy JIm Box.  I remember his family leaving Jonesboro to go to MIchigan for work,  I was about 5 or 6 at that time.  I can remember the day that my Mom told me that Jim was moving back to Jonesboro.  Things didn't work out with the promised job.  They were gone for about a year.  I was lonly at North School without my buddy Jim.  Throughout the years, time will not let me tell of the thinge we did both good and not so good. I remember one time Jin had a Metropliitian car.  We were about 17 and neither of us had any money to ask a girl to go to the movies.  The Skyview had a $1.00 per car night one time.  My folks owned a service station on North Main Street.  Mom told me to call Jim to come get me that I had enough money to get us in.  Jim told me he didn't have any gas.  Mom put $1.00 worth of gas in his car and gave me $1.50 which got us in the movie and get some popcorn.  I took a couple sodas form the service station.  Another time Jim had a '49 Ford.  Jim hadn't got his drivers licenses yet but another friend, Donald Poyner, had his.  We were set.  Donald rounded the corner of Burke and Union Streets in Jonesboro and broke the clutch peddle.  On Union Street there was a garage where a mechanic was working on his car that night.  We pushed Jim's Ford into the garage building and the man welded the peddle for us.  Didn't charge us anything because he asked if we had any money.  No was the answer.  I have many stories such as our fishing trips, etc., but I will sign off. Jerry Shelton

Posted by Jerry Wayne Shelton
Saturday January 19, 2019 at 6:33 pm
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