The thought of a summer home started around the time the Cockcrofts lived on Klein Ave. and Bill Vines put his place there up for sale.
The Cockcrofts place as is my understanding was purchased by Holly Cockcroft and her sister Hermin Koenig sometime in the fifties or maybe it was left to them by their parents. The second is a guess, being it was the fifties and the Cockcrofts were never really rich people.
Mom and Dad started thinking about a summer place around 1966. They were friendly with Bill Vines and they were friendly with the Cockcrofts. Both properties abutted each other.
Different places were locked at during the search for a summer place, but they were all summer places in the traditional sense. They were all houses near lakes or streams with little property. One place was on Lake Summit
Mom said Bill Vines property was always the one that was the favorite. It was near the Cockcrofts, It was owned by Bill Vines, a good friend of the family and it had a beautiful fireplace.
Mom can’t remember how the place was paid for. No loan was ever taken out on it or on the home in West Nyack . It was possible that we paid cash for it or that Bill Vines let Daddy pay it privately to him.
The only memory of this time I have is mommy and daddy were raiding ours, Karl and mine, Ruth was six and Eric was four and I guess had none, piggy banks. We spilled all the change out onto the floor in the living room, now the front of the master bedroom and mom and dad took all the paper money from them. I wanted to help as much as possible so I pushed all the remaining change into the pile that was Karl’s. After that I don’t remember having a piggy bank. I do remember Karl suddenly going on some expensive cruises and buying a brand new blue mustang with a 450 turbo charged…
No comments:
Post a Comment