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[finishing “pickled horse” story]
Irving also recalls the old-fashioned fire engines with
hand pumps. Such an engine put out a fire at the barn,
at which time the horses practically refused to get out.
. . . When the family moved to California in 1908, they
lived in Long Beach, moving to Huntington Park in
1909, where they purchased an automobile - a 1909 White
Steamer! The second car was a 1910 Ford, Model T.
In 1912 the “boys,” Albert, Irving, David, and Easton,
took a trip to Big Bear Lake in the Ford. Albert drove
up the old “Little Bear Lake” road, then to Fawnskin to
get to Big Bear. In one place, the car stalled, the road
being steep and narrow. The car had gravity flow only,
for fuel, so they turned around and backed up! They
camped for two weeks and “didn’t see another car the
whole time!” . . .