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Family made – quality foods. The life and times of Uncle Ray. Chapter 34. Moby dick’s baby. On a warm summer day in 1954, I went fishing with Bill Hurst, my sister’s husband. Bill was more like a brother to me. We fished for about three hours without a bite, but then Bill got a bite that just about pulled…

Family made. Quality foods. The Life and Times of Uncle Ray. Chapter 24. RIP Van Winkle Have you ever done something wrong and wished you could undo that wrong? I attended Boynton School in Detroit, Michigan. In the seventh grade I had been chosen to play the part of Rip Van Winkle in our school play. My teacher thought I…

Family made – quality foods. The life and times of uncle ray. Chapter 17 warm heart, cold treat. On hot summer days in Detroit, my brother bob liked to eat ice cream. He would go to an ice cream shop in a poor neighborhood on his break (he was a Detroit Edison electrician) and buy every child he saw an…

Family made – quality foods. The Life and Times of Uncle Ray. Chapter 9 my first job. At 12 years old, I had a job after school working at Johnson’s Store. I learned to work the cash register, cut meat and dip ice cream. The Johnson family was very dear to me and Mr. Johnson’s oldest son Ben became my…

Not for sale in CA. Family made – quality foods. The life and times of Uncle Ray. Chapter 19. Soup’s On. I was a cook in the navy, and we had good crew, mostly. But Russo was from Brooklyn and he had kind of a bad attitude. One morning the crew chief took him to task for throwing out the…

Family made. Quality foods. The Life and Times of Uncle Ray. Chapter 5. Poor but Blessed: Growing up poor had its blessings. Most families in the Fisher Housing Project on the southwest side of Detroit were hard working, honest people. I remember love and kindness from many of them. We did not have money for toys or games, so we…