Part of the time when we were with Hennies Bros. Shows we traveled by train. Our trailer would be on an open flat car and we would be in the railroad cars. One of my first memories is of uncontrollable terror when going from one railroad car to another. I had such fear about falling between the two cars that someone had to carry me. Even as an adult traveling on trains that had covered couplings, that fear was always with me. Staying with the same carnival for a long time meant that you acquired carny "Aunts and Uncles" along the way. Some of these aunts and uncles came in off the road and settled in Houston, Texas, and went to work for my father after he became a concessionaire. I was closer to them than I was to my blood aunts and uncles on my mothers side of the family that I only saw several times in my life. I have never met any of my fathers relatives even to this day. I do not know if his family knows that he died in 1958.
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