Note the sand in the front yard

Note the sand in the front yard. Dad was always leveling the lot by ordering a load of sand and filling in the low spots. I played in every sand pile until it was distributed. I also learned to use a shovel, wheel barrow and garden rake to do the leveling. Note the TV antenna with the motor to rotate the receiving elements. We received (a loose interpretation) only three channels in the bulk of the 50’s - one from Houston, one from Galveston and one from Lake Charles. Thus the antenna rotor to point the receiving elements of the antenna toward the broadcast towers. Perhaps by the time of this photo there were three local stations, dramatically ‘desnowing’ the pictures. I do not recall the concrete driveway - that was a really late addition. Most of the time we lived there the driveway was oyster shell. The basketball backboard and hoop was my dad’s futile attempt to stimulate my latent jock genes…never happened. The ’56 Dodge Texan in the driveway was not air conditioned, but it really traveled a lot of miles. I learned to drive in this car - at age 14! Astounding. The mosts amazing trip was the round trip to Los Angeles in the Summer of ’57 with my grandparents. Hot does not do justice to how we felt for most of the trip.