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Father

Don's father

Memories mentioning Father

My dad was the fourth of 5 children born to James Golden and

He was a boy scout and he played on a seven man football tea

I think he was a wild child

Handsome dude. Dad always liked to look good when he dressed up.

He was inducted into the Amy Air Corps as an Aviation Cadet

My Dad and the US Army Air Corps

This is somewhat confirmed in that his flight training which

My Dad's Siblings

Roberts Street House

Move to Idylwood

Note the sand in the front yard

My dad and I would have breakfast at the Pig Stand on Calder

Beaumont Cuisine in the 50s

Dad spent quite a lot of time with me teaching me gun safety

Clearing the Idylwood Lot

Dad was particular about how he did a job and cutting down t

Dad and College

This photo is not the saw, but it is a fair approximation.

Dad, Uncle Gordon, Mr Clark and several other of dad's Mason

It was a very nice mower and did a good job, but it was heav

Mowing also illustrated a difference between dad and me

Louis described how the tool pusher turned his head to Louis

Mom and Dad were Baptists and raised their three kids in that denomination.

Here are some of the shows we watched pretty regularly:

1956 Dodge Texan

I learned to drive in this car and was allowed, at 14, to dr

He traded the Dodge the next day for a beige Chrysler Newport.

California 1957

It probably was not a Maytag, more likely a Kenmore.

Yikes - My Bike

Flying Red Horse Club

Making Money = Paper Route

Stepping back a bit, in 1951 Aunt Helen and Uncle Gordon had

The city had made sewer service available to our street the

The Philippines

In his absence in the Philippines, as the titular ‘man’ of t

Finally, when dad came home it took a while before Janice wo

Christmas Shopping - 50s Style

Nuclear Attack!!!

Burning Stuff Out Back

We were on a weekend outing from 3-5 October in 1958

Terrified, I stopped and with eyes like saucers listened to

Gilchrist really turned up the heat and following the next e

More Summer Jobs

This started on Sunday and continued every week night for t

This third summer there were so many of us that Mobil split

1955 Ford Victoria

Dad was an awesome repairer

Masons progress through their study to various degrees

There are some downsides to masonry

Freemasonry and DeMolay

More on My Dad - Donald P Golden, Sr

This compressor turned out to have a design fault

He figured out the design flaw!

What Dad told him made sense to him

Dad was still working as a machinist in the Mobil refinery a

Neither mom nor dad were home

Dad also really wanted an M1 carbine like he had shot during

After dad died, my brother and his family, my sister and her