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Chestnut champions
In this picture dated September 1967, my brother Clyde D. Hoots Jr. (age 9) is shown standing beside the chestnuts that he and I used to pick up to sell. We grew up in Walkertown, and in our backyard were seven large chestnut trees that my father planted in 1946. My brother and I would sell these chestnuts any way we could. We put a sign in our front yard advertising them three pounds for $1. Also, we would pull our Radio Flyer wagon all over the neighborhood selling them door to door. Our father, Clyde Sr., and our mother, Ersie, would sell chestnuts at work. We also sold chestnuts to produce stands. I can remember being so excited when they would buy 50 pounds or more at a time. Some summers we would pick up over 1,200 pounds of chestnuts, just my brother and I. We deposited some of our earnings into what was then Northwestern Bank. Teddy Hoots |
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