Hello to you too. Been here since ‘73, worked @ McNary General Store in the mid ,70s. First home we bought was the old Penrod farmhouse on McCoy Ave. We have some memories in common I’m sure.
One Penrod that I knew, got fined and maybe put in the pokie for poaching game.
Do you remember Walsh Mack’s tavern on the eastern end of Pinetop?
Youngsters would go there and get served, including yours truly.
Most blacks in the area were descendents of freed slaves and were brought in by railroad (way back when) to work at the lumber mills in McNary.
I and my step-dad, worked for Log Homes Inc. They collected the employee’s taxes but didn’t pay the IRS. They eventually got caught and shut down. I got stiffed for about twelve weeks of wages. GRRR! I worked in a cabinet shop in McNary on the reservation.
I also worked for Tim Storm at his Chevron service station.
Charlie Clark’s Steak House? The Rancherita, or something like that?
Does any of that ring a bell?
We lived in Lakeside, at Rainbow Lake, then off a road north of the Circle K, in Pinetop, then in Pinetop Lake Country Club, in a mobile home with an addition, located almost to the reservation boundary, where the train tracks were laid. My mom was a waitress at the White Mountain Country Club.
Small world.