I have no intention of repeating my nineteen part Woodstock series as first submitted on Tuesday, July 26m 2022, but am digging further into the earlier lives of Sharon and Clyde and her Polish immigrant parents: 'Murray and Sarah Kandinsky and his Irish immigrant parents, Malcolm and Ellen Murphy, and how Henry Ford and World War One brought about a major change the lives of both families.
A Mid 20th Century ROAD TO WOODSTOCK ‘69
Snippet Two
Woodstock: The iconic American rock festival of the twentieth century
Authors Notation: Other than those that were actually a participating member or members of the Woodstock Festival, all others are fictitious characters and situations created for dramatic effect, and especially at this author’s whim. (See below)
Further Notation: I have no intention of repeating my nineteen part Woodstock series as first submitted on Tuesday, July 26m 2022, but am digging further into the earlier lives of Sharon and Clyde and her Polish immigrant parents: 'Murray and Sarah Kandinsky and his Irish immigrant parents, Malcolm and Ellen Murphy, and how Henry Ford and World War One brought about a major change in the lives of both families.
Why so much about the Polish Jewish immigrant parents of Sharon?
Why so much about the Irish Catholic immigrant parents of Clyde?
"Why? You might ask. Simply put; "I like them."
Never fear though, because eventually, at this authors whim, we will return to those, much improved, perverted and sexy days before and during the Woodstock Festival.
Oh, yes! I never write about things and times that had been written and rewritten a million times such as wars of any type, any place.
My take on 'Woodstock' is far different from than anything that had ever been written about wood stock, and probably is far worse.
So am presenting this 2nd snippet from my novel that is presently in work, and at the same time is keeping my eighty-eight year old brain (somewhatt) functioning.
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89 Chapter Eleven
Sophie's Plan
Loveland, Ohio
Monday: 5/15/39
4:25 PM
Having a bit more than an hour before the train, walking slowly, the two women talked.
Rather Agnes pink talked and Sarah Kaminsky listened— and learned, and formed a plan for success.
5:37 PM
"Okay..." Agnes said "...you'll stop at the first Petrol Station once you enter Loveland and call, so I can get a meal going."
A minute from boarding. "I will, Agnes. And thank you..." spoken from the heart of Sarah "...for being so kind to me."
The same age as her ill daughter, Norma, Agnes Pink had developed a genuine fondness for Sarah.
Following to the boarding step. "Hush! It's nothing more than I'd hope someone would do for my daughter."
A mutual hug and gentle kiss upon the cheek of the other.
Stepping onto the train."See you in a few days." Sarah disappeared into the coach.
11:11 PM
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Exhausted after such a long and anxious day, her head nodding onto her chest, Sarah had dozed off and awaken with a jolt any number of times.
"Excuse me..." she had asked the passing conductor any number of times. "...how long till we get to Chicago?"
In Chicago...
Arriving at Union Station at 10:30; a half hour early, Murray and Malcolm had anxiously waited for Sarah's train to arrive with news of her, actually optimistic evaluation of that days financial effort.
Nervelessly walking— Murray from east to west, Malcolm from west to east— as the two men awaited the now half hour late south-west bound train. 11:33 PM
Walking down the aisle. " 'Chicago'!" The conductor called, checking to see if Sarah was awake...
She was. " 'Chicago'!"
Looking up... "Thank you." Sarah said as preparing to stand. 11:39 PM
Spotting Sarah, three cars down, as she stepped from the steel step onto the platform.
Lightly hugging. "Hello, honey!" Kissing his wife's cheek, as Malcolm, squeezing her hand, asked, "Ready to go home?"
"Yes, I am. And have so much to tell you before we go to bed."
11:46 PM
Sarah in the middle, Murray to her right with Malcolm driving.
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"So tell!"
"Murray, wait." Holding her palm before his face in an attempt to forestall any questioning. "Before I say, we four should all be together."
"Ellen said she'd put some coffee up hen we get home,"
"That will be be a good thing, Malcolm, because I'll need coffee to say all I have to say." Smiling. "There is one thing I will say now." Teasingly, allowing a bit of her Yiddish accent to come through. "Already, not even open yet, we got an order for a twenty-five pound bag of rabbit food and two hundred pounds of 'Pig Slop'. Whatever 'Pig slop' is, we got an order for."
"How much rabbit food and Pig Slop cost that we already got an order for?"
"Oy, my Murray, I don't know what a bag of rabbit food and Pig Slop cost, but you just wait to hear what I got to say."
Sarah's Plan
Monday: 5/16/39
12:23 AM
In the Murphy's minute apartment at the rear of the storefront store. Clyde and Sharon asleep on Ellen and Malcolm's bed. Cups of freshly brewed coffee before them, all four sitting on old folding chairs at a battered card table awaiting 'Sarah's plan'."
"First thing I'm going to say is that tomorrow morning we will contact Meyerson to tell him that we are moving out... Tomorrow!"
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"Moving 'tomorrow'!" Malcolm said. "Still have half a month's time left."
"Forget that!" Sarah said harshly. "Doesn't matter because by tomorrow afternoon we are all going to be on our way to Loveland."
Murray, Malcolm and Ellen shooting a questioning look at each other, than holding a steady gaze at Sarah.
"Answer me!" Sarah demanded. "What do you have here that you want to pack up and take with you?"
Thinking a moment. "Clyde's and our clothes and..." looking about. "... Malcolm's tools, I guess. Nothing else that's so important... Maybe our pots and pans.?"
"Us too." Sarah said, looking at her husband.
"My sewing machine and some tools., also."
"First thing.." pointing to Murray "... you two are to get to the phone and call Meyerson, then you two go to the 'street' and see if you can find a small trailer that can be attached to the Hudson... " looking at Malcolm "...you can do that? Hook up a trailer?"
The three aware that Sarah has taken complete control.
The street's open today, so we'll have the car to be sure."
"If it costs a few dollars..." Sara said "...don't worry about it because we'll use it for deliveries..."
"Wait a minute. You said you made a deal..."
"Actually, my Murray, I said, 'we' made such a deal'."
93 "So today, now, we're just packing up and driving...? Uh?"
"About three hundred miles to Loveland." Sarah said to her husband, then, to Malcolm; "You think that automobile can make it three hundred miles?"
"Changed the plugs a couple of weeks back, and we'll bring a few quarts of oil along... So, yes..." rather looking forward to getting out of Chicago "...we shouldn't have any trouble."
"Sarah; if you're so sure about this, shouldn't we have something in writing from your...? Uh?"
Opening her purse. "Agnes."
"Yes, 'Agnes'. Shouldn't we have..."
Handing her copy of the legalised — without any 'gobolygook'— signed agreement to her husband.
Noting the 'Attorney of Law' letterhead, and the three signatures. "My, God!, Sarah! You did this all by yourself, with out speaking to us?" Handing the contract to Ellen, whom held it so Malcolm could read at the same time.
"Afraid to wait! Couldn't wait, Murray! Everything there is so perfect for us."
"You couldn't even get her to reduce her price?"
"Ellen, wait till you see this house, it's beautiful! And other than her bedroom, she's leaving 'everything'! Beds enough for you and Malcolm, and for Murray and me, and there's also two beds her grandchildren, that are all grown now.
94 now all grown, had slept on and all her furniture. We don't even have to bring a pot or a pan, or dishes... And there are two toilet rooms.""
Like icing on a cake. "There are 'two' toilet rooms... Inside toilet rooms?"
"Yes! That's why..."
"But we have to pay her one hundred dollars a month!" Malcolm said, adding. " 'Each month'!"
"That's a lot of money, Sarah!"
Sarah's eyes shifting from her husband, to Ellen, to Malcolm. "Pink's is huge!"
" 'Pink's'?" Ellen questioned.
"That's the name of the store, and that's what it's been called for twenty-five yeas, and... Agnes told me, when people think of the feed or hardware store, they call it 'Pink's. So that's what I thought we should leave it, at least for a while."
"But what about that hundred a month?"
'Pink's is the only feed and hardware for ten miles around, so they're all anxious for us to open, and once we do open that hundred will mean nothing. And besides, if you think of it, we won't be paying our fifteen each, each month for rent here..." gesturing "... because we'll own our own house! Think of it! 'Our own house'! So that hundred will be, if you think about it, we'll only be paying seventy out of our own pockets to Agnes." Waiting for all she'd said to be digested. Sarah took a drink of her now cold coffee.
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"What do we know about the hardware and feed business?" Malcolm asked.
"Agnes said when we get there she would spend a day getting us acquainted with the merchandise, and help getting the accounting and bookkeeping set up— that I'll take care of. And there's a man in town that's been helping out for years that will help with the, uh, nuts and bolts of the business."
Again waiting for this to be digested.
"So the way I'm thinking, I'll do the bookkeeping and the inventory and ordering of what needs to be replaced, and also handle the cash register as customer pay for what they buy."
"There's a 'cash register'?"
"A big one, Murray. A 'National', with all the bells and whistles."
Impressed. "How do you figure the work for the rest..." motioning to Malcolm and Ellen "...of us?"
"You and Malcolm will be in charge of maintaining the merchandise, and you, Murray, because you're— no offence, Malcolm, but Murray is a better salesman, so Murray will handle any questions a customer might ask."
Shrugging his shoulders, "It's okay with me." Malcolm said.
"We've plenty of room out there, so Malcolm, we'll be setting up your own automobile repair, and will build a place on the loading area for you any way you want, that you'll be in charge of...." adding "...and don't forget that
1927 Chevrolet, long bed pick up truck, because we've got two hundred pounds of 'Pig Slop' to deliver."
96 "And me..." Ellen asked testily "... am I to be the official babysitter?"
A quick thought coming to mind. "No, of 'course' not, Ellen." Sarah said. "Remember Pink's has three storefront windows, and we know how much you love creating women's hats! So I thought that we would take one of the windows to 'display' —Thinking: The window next the tailor — and make a four foot high, half walled room on our side of the window so you'll get a lot of daylight, and set up your own military shop so people passing would be able to see you as you create, and yet you wouldn't be so secluded from what's happening in the store."
Instantly loving the idea! "Oh, my, God, 'yes'! tat sounds wonderful, and.. adding "...I'll be able to keep an eye on Clyde and Sharon at the same time in a place where they wouldn't get into trouble."
"And when things get slow and I can get away from the cash register — Thinking: Hope that's not too often— I'll keep an eye on the two also."
"Sounds wonderful to me!" Ellen replied. "And anyway, how much trouble could one and three year old kids get into in a hardware store, when they can't even reach a counter?"
Laughing. " 'Yet'!" Malcolm added.
Sitting back. Rotating the cup before her on the snack table."So?" Sarah asked. "Every thing okay? Every one 'agree' that we're leaving for 'Loveland..." remembering "... 'today'!"
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This is far as this author got, but I do know how the next chapter will vbegin, as do, I am sure, most of you do also.
I really hate "formula writers." Those who write successful genres and repeat over and over the same themes and characters. But I like about you writing is the style and uniqueness that you bring forth. And that you don't write about what others write about. In this case, your take on immigrants coming to the country settling into business and eventually, taking in the Great American experience like Woodstock. Presented in a way that no other author of this great historical event has ever written about it. Bravo!
Sarah is right! I can see why she couldn't pass up the deal. You remind me of my dad's pipe dreams. Couple of times he told me he wanted to own a farm like his father. I'm so glad he didn't buy one. I know you would have thrust a lot of the work from 5 AM to 7 PM every day without a break towards Roger and me. But I was intrigued one time when he almost bought a small resort and bar. If he had done that, my life would've been much different.
I didn't know there were any "petrol" stations in the United States, just England. Come to think of it, there may have been a brand of that name--is that what you mean? And finally, I'm not sure they wanted to open a "military" hat shop in the hardware store. ;-)
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