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See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=mmtPNnYxlxU6wI2GlbqX5R6mBHEK3r0Vu+ZEsltH3jEGBVlNTWRDEFL7/f+LN0nhPFxgXu16fI7oLRiW+JsPDO4PXyRoyMXoQHovnWNj6Xa2aShM9kV3/Gi5OGhA9cFNRmINoAp7l/gWe8Jm20KwHtfKIQjsGP5QiZB4YogdHKc= ; Message-ID: <20050213003653.92531.qmail@web60902.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [66.141.90.216] by web60902.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:36:53 PST Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:36:53 -0800 (PST) From: Paul Odle To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.38 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] The Charles Barron Ponderosa The Charles Barron Ponderosa Many years ago somewhere near the year 1959 in the City of Enid, Oklahoma I was employed by Evan Cut Rite Drug. At that time Evan's Drug was located on the East side of the town square and one store north of Coldirons Clothing Store. If I remember correctly CHARLES BARON was the store Manager and RALPH MEIER.S was Assistant Manager. CHARLIE BARRON and his wife MARY MARGARET BARRON were two of the kindest, friendliest people I have ever known. I learned a lot of good people skills working with him. Charlie was a very good customer relation's man. In all the years I knew him I never ever saw him get mad at any one. I watched him deal with many disgruntled customers that would always leave our store happy. I thought CHARLIE BARRON'S wife MARY MARGARET had the prettiest name and when my sixth child a girl was born I named her after MARY MARGARET BARRON. Right before the new YMCA opened in Enid, CHARLES and MARY MARGERET BARRON bought some farmland around Ringwood, Oklahoma that they called "THE CHARLIE BARRON PONDEROSA." We had an EVANS DRUG Store Party at the PONDEROSA not long after Charlie bought the place. Charlie had three horses but he did not have any saddles for them at that time. This Old Kid by the name of LARRY JOHNDROW worked for Evans Drug then and he was quite a horseman a very handsome Arcadian young man. He said to me "Paul I will race you horse back to that fence over there!" I said "Larry I can not race you bare back on that horse. I have not even been horse back riding since I was about 17 years old." We got on those horses bare back and started racing across the pasture and I slid right off of my horse and landed hard on my tailbone. I felt like my tailbone was broken. I figured that my tailbone could not be fixed and I would just have to tough it out. After the big horse race we played baseball. I felt like I had a heavy sheet of iron across my back, but I played ball and latter pitched horseshoes for a while. We had a great time picnicking on the Barron Plantation. For a month after the picnic on the Ponderosa I felt like I was carrying this heavy sheet of metal across my backside. If I sat down in a chair the only way I could get out of that chair was to push my self up by pushing down with my arms. About that time the new YMCA opened and WILFORD EVANS bought all of the employee's a family membership. I took my family to the YMCA on FAMILY NIGHT. We went swimming. My tailbone felt good as long as we were in the water. I had a terrible time dragging my rear out of that pool. The kids and I decided to go see what was in the exercise room. I spotted a vibrator with a wide belt that went around your waist and hips. I stood on that vibrator and put the wide belt around my hips I turned the switch on position and the first swish across my tailbone put my tailbone back in place and I never hurt there again. Some of the employees working there was VIVA MANUEL,EVA SMITH, RALPH MOORE, LOWELL CUSHING, BILL DUDLY, FRANCES WILLIAMS, NED FOSTER, WEBSTER FULLER,DOROTHY MOORE, CAROLYN COWEN, LEO CORN, PATSY POWELL, GARY GIBSON, and many others that I can not think of their names but can see there faces in my mind. I have never been on a horse since. By Paul L.Odle, Sr. Lawton/Fort Sill Veterans Center P.O. Box 849 Lawton, Oklahoma 73502 1-580-354-3287 Paul_OdleSr@yahoo.com