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Originally Posted by Ariel Red Hunter
Yeah, but I was only 12 years old when he made this run. Nobody would have listened to a 12 year old in those days. But I remember thinking it when I first saw that picture (Speed Graphic pic by Bob DeOlivio) in Cycle magazine in 1950. Yeah, it cost me a whole weeks pay pushing a lawnmower in our 2 acre back yard to buy that mag. Then I had to hide it, because my father hated motorcycles. We were a two Packard family at that time, and my dad was an immigrint from the Netherlands, and became well off by being clever plus working his butt off. He started from nothing. His first job was shucking clams in Hoboken, NJ. He took that job because everyone on the shucking crew, and on the clam boat spoke Dutch. But he worked very hard to learn English, and after two years he was fluent.
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I wonder if that still happens with immigrants?
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