Lady on my 4J- R2. Bill

Nice Cat!!!!!!!!

I used to have a helper like that. Crawl under something and she'd climb up on my chest to give advice. .drop something and she'd be the first one on the ground to see of it was worth chasing, er, retrieving. No matter what I was doing, she'd be right there to see it was done right and giving advice all the time as to how it could have been done better. She also had the loudest idle of any cat I've ever had:)

I also like the photo of the dealership logo. Note the old 2 letters plus five numbers telephone number - used in the '50s and '60s, but long dead and forgotten today. Pretty kitty too. GWH

>used in the '50s and '60s, but long dead and forgotten today

Not quite forgotten, George.

In the '30's through '60's Shepherd Machinery was the main Cat dealer for the Orange County, CA area. I remember as a young boy accompanying Dad when he would buy parts from Shepherd for our 15's and 22's. Shepherd was located in Santa Ana, near Towner, who for many years manufactured disks and other tractor implements.

Nor dead, either. Shepherd is still going strong, but urbanization in the area relocated them to Irvine in the late '60's. And I believe Quinn Cat either bought them out or has an interest now.

Coincidently our phone number at the old ranch during the '40's and '50's used to be Kimberly 2-2951. It was changed to a more modern number in the early '60's. Surprised I could still remember that phone number - usually now I forget where I put my keys . . .


- Richard

Back in the 30s our Ph.# was 1R4 and the exchange was from Muhlenburg Pa. out in the country and an operator was on duty 24 hrs. from a house in Muhlenburg Pa.It was a party line with 3 or 4 party,s on the line so you could listen in on a call if you heard one ring if you wanted to be nosey.Also in the later 50s yet where I live now that party lines were still around yet.

The thing about the letters and names in the phone numbers is a bit of nostalgia that's long gone, with the electronics today. We still have a small grocery store run by the same brothers, well they just do produce and sell seasonal items, flowers/vegetables, grew up with one of the kids, sign on the store still says AS-3 - then the last number ! Still in business all these years, never changed the sign. I've got to get a picture of that. I have a phone book from '66-'67 some of those kind of numbers with the letters were common then.

I can remember party lines and I'm kid compared to you guys, my grandmother lived 19 miles east of here and in a rural mountainous area, they had those party lines into the 1970's. Was kind of funny to pick up the phone and there was a conversation going.

When I was growing up we had a party line. The phone was a wall mounted crank phone & our number was two longes & a short ring.

It wasn't to many years later the phone company went to a rotary desK phone. That was about the time the neighbor used the D2 I still have to dig around the house for a basement under the house.

Cattrails

Nice Cat,I grew up not to far from there.My mom and dad would take me over there a few times a year on Saturdays,back then the salesman would give out watch fobs and belt buckles I always came home with a couple of handfuls of stuff.With the big wall pictures and the tractors on the show room floor I was never there long enough.It must have been very early 60s as there was a new D47u on the show room floor.A couple of miles down the road was Towner MFG .