It was constructed by my now deceased father and uncles
in the playroom attic at 2009 Clay St., Cedar Falls Iowa.
I own it today. It travels with me.
It is made of a Gilbert Erector set kit out of wheels, nuts, bolts,
gears and punched sheet steel pieces.
Its chipped colored metal and some accumulated dust
portray for me the shadows of gleeful four brothers, all to serve
later in WW II, playing together in the semi-dark gables
of that plain Four Square Prairie School Iowa dwelling.
Here, later Dixes gather at the old homestead, long sold, decorated
by the present owners for Xmas. The central flag in the front yard
that we raised and lowered daily during the war as family patriots is still there.
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at Peninsula State Park in it in 1987.
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Chris Dix, grandson, married to Katie Gardalapee
10-23-2017
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Means Rest, Pleasant Valley MD
is a house to grow up in
Gramaw and Poppy Means of Means Rest
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UCC Minister David Hansen
engages /sale promoter St. Joseph
statue to effectuate house sale.
With assistance of Wis. Realtor David Dix
the custom works, a sale is made.
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Pistol packin' Mama
