How did you get to school?

Mom- I lived just a couple of blocks from Bicknell Elementary so I walked to school every day. I even walked home for lunch and back. I remember mostly running. Then when I started 7th grade at Wayne High School, I also walked to school, even though it was further away, probably about four blocks away. It seemed much further than that because it was mostly up hill. When I was in the 9th grade, I obtained a job working for a teacher LaVoy Tolbert. My job was from 7:30 - 8:30 am and my neighbor Adonna Johnson worked as a school lunch worker, so she would stop and pick me up each morning. She didn't drive, but her husband Burt Johnson drove us both to work each morning.

When I reached 16 years of age and obtained my driver's license, I wasn't allowed to drive the family car. It was the only car we had and my mother needed it during the day for errands. I can remember one time that I was allowed to take the car to school and drive it to a baseball game up to the ball diamond. It was located where the Bicknell (Thurber Ward) Church is now. I felt so special driving the car....but it was only that one time.

Yes, we walked everywhere we went and thought nothing of it. Sometimes we rode our bicycles but we relied on our own selves to go from place to place. Those were the good ole' days and everyone was healthy and strong.

Brooke-When I was younger and maybe in 1st or 2nd grade, I remember walking down the road to the bus each and every morning after a full breakfast of bacon and scrambled eggs or pancakes. As more sisters grew to school age, life became more hectic in the mornings. Dad would then drive us to the end of the road to catch the bus. Usually he was going about 60mph on the washboardy dirt road after a fast breakfast of cereal or mush. If we were later than the bus he would then drive us to the last stop in Teasdale near the Williams' house. There were many times that Sarah would get on the bus and realize she forgot to brush her hair that morning and had to go all day long in school with bed head.


Sarah-My Dad usually drove us to the bus stop. We would ride the bus to the High School and then get on a different bus that would that us to the Elementary School in Loa. I remember chasing the bus in to town to catch it at the last bus stop. I think we chased the bus more than catching it at our bus stop. I think the bus ride was about 35-45 min. I never seemed to dis like riding the bus.

Collette- The bus picked us up at the end of our dirt road. I remember squeezing in Dad's pick up truck with dad. It was always really tight and I hated being the one that had to sit on a lap and have your face practically in the windshield. I have a memory of being with dad in his pick up truck on a cold winter day as dad was going back and forth breaking up the snow drifts. I thought it was so much fun. We also would sometimes drive the four wheeler down to the end of the road and leave it parked there. It was always a treat at the end of the day to see the 4 wheeler and realize I didn't have to walk home.

Allyson-

Raquel- I would ride the four wheeler down to the bus Allyson made a specific spot off the side of the road to park the four wheeler.. When i didnt ride the four wheeler mom would take me down in the mornings cause I seemes to always be late for the bus and then I would walk home.. If i was lucky in middle school mom would let me drive the car down and park till I was 16 and could drive my self... I remember one time Mom dropped me off at the bus and we were in a hurry and I jumped out and my fingers got stuck in the door and she started to drive I was screaming and finally she stopped and realized! It was very tramuatic. I made the bus just leave becasue I was in so much pain!