The then Harriett Bray and I were students and sweethearts attending Broad Ripple High School. It was a great time to be alive and sharing the good times with your Best friend and future wife for sixty two years of a wonderful life together.

We were always doing fun things together that could be done without a car for transportation. One of our very favorite activities was to plan a trip to downtown Indianapolis to see a movie at one of the great theaters on a Saturday afternoon. Now to be sure that we both would be on the same street car, remember? This was Our plan of operation; Harriett lived at 44th street and I was living in old Broad Ripple Village at 6519 Ferguson street. To be sure that we would both wind up on The same car I would stand at the corner of Guilford and 63rd street and observe What the number of our car would be as it continued to the turn around at the old Broad Ripple Park. I would then call Harriett on the phone, not a cell, and tell her our Car number and she would immediately walk to her corner at 44th street and wait For our car. To be sure that she got on the right car she would watch for my white Handkerchief which would be holding out the window as the car approached her Corner.

After the movie we would go to the old Weises sandwich shop and have a famous Ham sandwich with a side (usually baked beans for me) and then catch our car to 44th and College and we would walk to Harriett's house thinking that we had had a wonderful afternoon together and be as happy as two turtle doves sitting on your back fence in the first days of spring. When I tell my grandchildren this little story they look at me as if I am out of my mind and perhaps I am but I can still feel Harriett's hand in mine as we walk together and I can still taste that great ham sandwich and the baked beans and I am truly sorry that they had to miss this most wonderful time of life.

The End - part four