Lemmon, South Dakota (Crooks: power lines, movies, living in)

[CraigKling]

Originally Posted by I Remember

In those days of 1925 to 1934, we had two doctors, Dr. Totten and Dr. Curtis who was the doctor when I was born. My cousin, Carl Braun was a butcher in a local store. The Petrified Wood Park is still a national tourist attraction.

It was in late fifties there was a Totten used a dull scalpel to cut a large splinter out of my palm. Only other fatter guy I recall was the Catholic Priest that my Lutheran teacher, Kurth, would slander from time to time.

Myself was born in Bismarck. Moms family was North of Morristown.
Stepfather taught me to hate the farm and farming. Actually he never taught me squat but to get mad at me for not knowing how already. Maybe he was not the most stupid of the Klings but certainly near the bottom.

Got to add that I forget the name of the drug store in Lemmon but when I was in Germany I saw a sign that said that < ?? name of drug store> some thousand miles. I gather that there was those signs in a number of countries. I wonder who put up the bucks to set them up. ;-)

[DannyBanany]

Originally Posted by CraigKling

Got to add that I forget the name of the drug store in Lemmon but when I was in Germany I saw a sign that said that < ?? name of drug store> some thousand miles. I gather that there was those signs in a number of countries. I wonder who put up the bucks to set them up. ;-)

Are you sure that wasn't for Wall Drug? They "apparently" have signs all around the world.

[ElkHunter]

Originally Posted by DannyBanany

Are you sure that wasn't for Wall Drug? They "apparently" have signs all around the world.

I saw a sign for Wall Drug when I was in Kuwait for Desert Storm.

[CraigKling]

Originally Posted by ElkHunter

I saw a sign for Wall Drug when I was in Kuwait for Desert Storm.

Yea - you guys got it right. Been forty or more years ago and I forget - must be senility ;-)

I do not recall when I was there last December - for my mothers funeral - if there was still that drug store. But, since I did not remember the name anyway ....

I suppose that it has come to the store does not spend a dime but smart alec troops will make the signs and carry on the tradition.
Always good to see when a younger generation carries on with a "good" tradition.

Anyway - I suppose that down the road from Lemmon will be my starting place to search for home for whatever years I got left. My cousin Lyle lives couple miles from Keldren (Keldron?) Maybe I can park my possessions there while I search. - Or stuff the stuff in storage in Bismarck at a cousins house there. - I found online that VA has some shuttle busses/vans but there was no schedule when and where they go. Maybe they go where and when needed?
A POV is that I am looking for a place to die at. (screw participles dangling or otherwise - Just had run in with grammar and spelling troll the other day)
My first thought was to be near to VA clinics or hospital. Other thought is that if I become deathly ill I might want to be as far as possible from the tubes and machines that them ghouls like to drag life on for every last miserable moment. - Maybe one ought to secure a cyanide pill to avoid all that crap.
I watched my mom dying and I do not want that at all. I do not want someone to have to make decisions about it. - Mom died before I had to make decision about the support stuff.
Oh well. Already got my hole reserved in Lemmon cemetary. I even paid for the stone already. I should make sure that my wishes was kept. The stone should say Craig Zacher and not Craig Kling.
Guess I ought to get a cousin to take picture to send me. Especially one of my aunts is not above making decisions that should have been left to me.

[CraigKling]

Originally Posted by Subzerori

I have never lived in Lemmon, but always wanted to. That is where my dad grew up. I remember when I was a little guy we used to go there to visit my grandma. She lived next to cliffs gas station. I had a few uncles there at the time also. We lived in Rapid City and would travel to Lemmon quit often. I hated the ride but loved being there in Lemmon. I moved from Rapid City to Seattle then to a small coastal town in Rhode Island. I would love to take my family there and show them where it all started. Maybe someday when I hang up my hat I can move to Lemmon kick my feet up and take it easy.

I wonder if folks would be as nice to me now as when I was a kid.
I am a felon now. - did not do the thing I was convicted but I did do things that would have gotten near as much time had I been caught at them.
I had completely quit with the meth and dealing the year before I was busted for crap that I never did and told folks to go to [bleep] who pressed me to make the crap just because I knew a bit of chemistry.

Can't say that I am reformed any more than I was year before I got railroaded. I will honestly say that I did do stuff that was only one year less in the penalties. I'd quit way before I got nailed though. - I have thought before I settle to buy a place to see if I can buy coffee and talk a bit with local cops and see if there be reason that we should have problem. - Hell, even in California I most often turn down hit on pot that is offered. I like the stuff but would not miss it a lot. - If someone offer me a hit I may or may not accept even to be polite. I should even quit with the beer a lose a few pounds - like about forty. - I think what a stack of forty one pound chunks of hamburger and that is what I got in excess blubber? <eek>

[kjjdavis]

Originally Posted by amiewise

My Grandpa Monte Labarge just passed away January 5, 2007. When I was a little girl about 5, I played in the petrafied wood park for he lived across from there until the day he died. Not only will I remember the safety of this little town playing a top the the rocks and looking up at the stone trees. I miss this place but most of all I miss my Grandpa. He was known as my favorite Grandpa who always liked to fish and could talk to you all day. I never tired even as a child listening to what was going on in Lemmon and his wisdom. My Grandpa and Grandma lived in Lemmon for many years. My mom Graduated from her Lemmon High School in the seventies. I think to myself oh the quiet and the buz of the little town of Lemmon South Dakota. Maybe We will return and raise our children there.

Is your mom Angie? I graduated in the 70's from LHS as well! Your grandpa was a prinicpal when I was in Jr. High - he was an awesome man!!!

[sherkus]

Originally Posted by amiewise

My Grandpa Monte Labarge just passed away January 5, 2007. When I was a little girl about 5, I played in the petrafied wood park for he lived across from there until the day he died. Not only will I remember the safety of this little town playing a top the the rocks and looking up at the stone trees. I miss this place but most of all I miss my Grandpa. He was known as my favorite Grandpa who always liked to fish and could talk to you all day. I never tired even as a child listening to what was going on in Lemmon and his wisdom. My Grandpa and Grandma lived in Lemmon for many years. My mom Graduated from her Lemmon High School in the seventies. I think to myself oh the quiet and the buz of the little town of Lemmon South Dakota. Maybe We will return and raise our children there.

I see your grandfather was Monte LaBarge. I'm not related to him, however, that is the name of my sisters BLOOD father. Wondering if this is the same LaBarge. He was from So. Dakota and was married to my mother (Lois) in the 40's. My sisters name is Monica. Is this the same LaBarge????

[egg man]

Craig,
Did you get it that the drug store in Lemmon is not Wall Drug but the drugstore in Wall, SD????

They will give you signs to carry to wherever if you ask when you're in Wall visiting. They keep a crew busy all summer just traveling the highways keeping their roadsigns up. However, Wall Drug has surely found out it PAY$ to advertise.

Even though I've been there dozens of times, we stop everytime we go past if they are open.

Last fall I took a boy from the Czech Republic on a whirlwind tour of the Badlands and Hills. We stopped at Wall for breakfast and wouldn't you know it, the young gal who waited on us in the dining room at Wall Drug was from the Czech Republic too, talk about a small world, but then those kind of things seem more apt to happen in South Dakota.

[stydal]

Just want everyone to know Lemmon SD is a wonderful town and we would love for everyone to come visit or make Lemmon your home. Check out our website @ Welcome to Lemmon, SD (Home) . Check out the worlds largest Petrified Park.

[I Remember]

This summer, as I have been promising myself every year for about 40 years, I PLAN on going back to Lemmon just for old times sake. I'll disguise myself as a senior citizen. Most of my relatives whe were raised near Lemmon in North Lemmon, ND are in Minnesota. I did go back for a week about in 1996 but had too many things to see. The farm where I lived from 1934 to 1939 was abandoned and falling apart. There used to be a lot of little farms with everyone struggling to make a living but many seemed empty.