Standley_Correspondence_1957-02-13

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answer his letter as soon as I can. That deal is pretty much out of the question for a while. I am in the process of switching my insurance around and I also have a couple of heavy obligations that I'd like to get squared away as soon as possible. Actually, I'm pretty sol

Feb. 13, 1957

Dear Mother,

Thank you for the clippings from the auld country. Are those the fellows who tossed the hammer through the roof in the Olympic village in 1932? I've heard you speak of Rody.

Tell Daddy that I will

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vent. I know where it's all gone & I've got a pretty good idea where most of it is going. I haven't got the time to [live?] on a very complicated scale. Don't forget, I'm down in the bracket where social security is a reality. Don't worry about my transportation situation. It's pretty good compared to the win-

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ter before last. It was smaller, slipperier & half the time I was using the bumper strip of scotch-lite on the back of my pocket for a tailight since the rear fender kept [shearing?] off.

At the moment, I've prepared to overhaul the Zundapp. My parts just came in today. First, I've got to buy some metric wrenches, but first I've got to rebuild the battery so I can get the thing

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up to the Snap-on man to fit the wrenches, if I can't get them out of L.A.

That battery business is really funny. I've got it apart & cleaned out, but now its a matter of scavenging information to get it together correctly. I've got a fellow from the San Carlos fire station interested. He was the original owner, & like everyone who every owned the thing,

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(except the last guy, who wound up in San Q. before he got a chance to ride it) he is still somewhat attached to it.

They're training me on a new job at work. That's good, because I was getting pretty bored.

Thanks for all the clippings. Joan Armstrong really picked herself a blueblood, didn't she.

Jim & I saw "Teahouse" a week or so ago. It was great. Your friend isn't