Captions from Chris

Here are some photo captions from Chris Callaway. I don't have time to put them properly into the galleries at the moment, so I'll post them here for now:


Troop 21_1959_June
They grayhound bus is post 1963, it looks like they are loading out for Arkansas.  TCU has taken over the gold course and the new BDS is operating.

T22221_OldCol_     This is early 1960s on a day hike followed by a cow patty war.  this could be 1963

Troop52
1963_JulyT52_03 jpg  This is the colorado trip in '63 the last time we camped outside the Sand Isabell Nat'l Forrest  I can id a few of the people.  TRavis Hazelwood broke his back falling off one of the fins (volcanic dikes)

Colorado Trip '64 in Andrix COlorado  the photo is detailed elsewhere.  THis is the first time I can remember that the acting SPL had no troop 52 experience - that was John thomas

1967 June_o8  Arkansas trip  I htink this is 1968 Mark Smith, Gary Mills, Si Bennett  This was Gary's last trip with the unit.  Mr. Kizer ran the grayhound off the road on the way out of the park on the trip home about an hour later.  We had lots of bus trouble that day.

1968_april T52_17jpg
Loading out to go to colorado, note the lack of poles on hte blue panel truck

1971 T52 Arkansas _09m jpg
Should be 1968 they had just pulled the grayhound back on the road

1971 T52 arkansas _ 06 S/B 1968 The brakes locked up on the Grayhound about 50 west of camp on the way home.   I had to call RObert Vivion to find the bus mechanic in Fort Worth to get the procedure to fix the problem.  It was a huge mess that we have photos of somewhere.

JB_ 001 jpg  this is pre 1961 at UCC

T52-1960s misc02LG  This is 1966 at Trinidad CO on the way home.  It was a rainy year where the bridges washed out between our camp site and Aguilar standing our bus.  We rode to Trinidad in the bed of a coal truck to the train station.  Jack and his nephew George, drove the blue panel truck back to Fort Worth leaving Bill Ellis and I in charge of the kids on the train.   this was one of the last runs of the Burlington "Denver Zephyr" as the post office cancelled the mail contract.  We pretty much had the rain to ourselves.

T52_1969 jpg
This is 1963 trip to Colorado at Amarillo Air Force Base on the way up.