Hey "FAST FREDDY" Thanks.....
But, this "FREE FOOD" is something that is beginning to get to me...Ed (Cheo) always fed me very well and stilll do...plus alwasy gave me more fruit than a man could ever eat before it spoiled...But Chili Sizes....Cheese Burgers??? Boyes and Carnakis always had LOTS OF MONEY.....the San Diego Boys did come a long ways...but.......Maybe, I'm getting a handle on this... Bill Boyes worked for DeSilvas (You guys had DeSilva boats...So I understand here!!!....Carnakis, and the San Diego boys all raced ALKYIES....You figured us Stocker could buy our own Chili Sizes!!!! Was this discrimination????
No, it could have been that, as your mom feed all of us, at the races, many, many times....
Did your mom ever get a speeding ticket pulling a trailer???... (She'd drive about 70, in the middle lane, pulling a trailer....Cops would see her and figure, hell she must be needed somewhere.....)....
Turth is, I don't recall eating at Fred's Cafe very often...and I never paid anyway...I let my friends pay!!!! Besides, we'd usually get there late at night and just crash....in the morning at breakfast....Don't think your mom worked that shift....
FYI to all, Fred's Cafe is just a lot on the Conejo exit of 99, now....Maybe, when Mikey moves to Kingsburg...He could open a NEW FRED'S CAFE!!!! Couldn't sell Beacon gas, it is now Valero Gas....
Freddy, PLEASE dig through you seven zillion pictures and post a few hundred....
I once stole Jimmy's cooler when Jimmy was the ONLY ONE working at the truck stop and he couldn't leave for several hours.....Oh, was he mad...cooler and ALL of his beer!!!
Between 45 and 55 ALL DAY
My answer to the CHP's was to drive my Winnebago between 45 and 55, in the right lane all day....My driving use to, actually, still does, drive everyone crazy because I'd go so slow...But somehow, those COPS DIDN'T WRITE ME A TICKET! I always drove slow enough to make the Good Humor Ice Cream man past me.
I swear I have this image in my mind, I'm driving about 55-60 in the right lane about 15 miles north of Kingsburg coming back from Modesto, Frances comes by me going at least 70, maybe 75 in the middle lane, windows open, her long hair blowing out the window, trailer swaying back and forth like a "WILD WOMAN" was driving, with a Highway Patrol car on her back bumper.....
I stopped at Fred's Cafe just to see what the COP had written on her ticket.... Frances said, "Ticket?, I didn't get a ticket."....This was long before air conditioning... I remember thinking as I left Kingsburg, it was hot as hell, if I so much as go 62 that same CHP would give ME a ticket....I'm laughing right now, as I will always carry that image in my mind.....
Next, we talk about how the Hauenstein Racing Trailer got the tongue bent!!!!
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Fred Hauenstein Sr. Funeral...
A very nice service for Fred today. I guess I never really knew how many people around Kingburg he'd helped.....As Fred was a humble man and would never brag about helping others...
I'd like to thank Francis, Freddy, Linda, Danny and Donny for their kind words today...After I'd collected my composure, I realized that my dad had died just three weeks before Jim Hauenstein was killed...The last time I was in a Church near Kingburg was for Jimmy funeral....
All day long I kept thinking of how my dad and old Fred were really good friends...and how good of friend Jimmy really was to me.....
Fred made a great talk about his memories of his dad....Many of his memories were much like my boat racing memories of my dad....
Many of Fred Senior's stories always ended with, "Don't tell Francis." But most of us who knew the Hauenstein's knew Francis knew everything...There were some really cool family pictures on display, but I only took pictures of the boat racing.....and Fred's Cafe.....and Fred's airplane.
This airplane is NOT the one that was hid out in Ed's barn for several years....