Boy Scouts
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Before Boy
Scouts, I joined Cub Scout Pack #84 in
1964. I remember going to meetings at a house on what we
called the "double street" (NW 36th Street)
which
was just a couple streets over from our
home
on 36th Drive. The meetings were run by the mother of the
scout that lived there. I remember we had snacks and did
activities, of which the one I remember
most
fondly was the building of Pinewood Derby cars which were carved
from a block of wood. In 2019 I was going through some old
boxes at my Dad's and found my Cub Scout neckerchief and hat with my
name written inside.
The following year, my brother and I joined the Boy Scouts, Troop
376, which met at the church behind
Littlewood Elementary school on 8th Ave. Mr. Tyre was the Scout
Master who had an older son in the troop who became an Eagle Scout.
Larry and David in Boy Scout Uniforms
Larry and David's Boy Scout Handbook
I remember was going to Woolworth’s downtown to buy our uniforms and other Scout things. They had a small section with all sort of Boy Scout merchandise which really liked to look at. We could only afford the basics, my brother and I even had to share the same handbook but on one trip was so excited to get a Boy Scout pocketknife which I treasured for many years.