Clyde Joseph Ling
In 1961, I went to Albuquerque to visit my father. I was in the navy, stationed in Millington, Tennessee, just north of Memphis, training in aviation electronics. During that visit I had dinner with
uncle Clyde, he was still married to Jeanne at the time. He gave me this photo and one other of Elvis, (circa 1956). My cousin Diane Beers, was also at that dinner. Diane was on the paternal Grandmother's
side of the family. So, somehow a cousin removed, as they say. She and I spent a few days together,
going to parties, clubs and just having fun. In one of those clubs we danced to 'The Twist', my first time. It took a couple of minutes to get the hang of it.
Funny, I don't think we ever
went dancing at dad's dance club... well it was for teens and they didn't serve booze. LOL
In HS we all would dance the 'Bug'. Didn't have to get the hang of that dance, if you could call it that. You danced like you had a bug in your clothes and then you tossed it to someone else. I was good at that one, because the person I tossed it to made a couple of futile attempts and tossed it back to me.
Mercy Hospital, now part of UPMC, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
In 1970 Clyde ran for public office
This was where Mae, Clyde Jr. and Sally, lived in 1928. It was a short dead-end street off 2nd street.
Dating back to 1882, the Altoona and Logan Valley Electric Railway has humble origins, but it quickly became a viable transportation system serving the city of Altoona. Often referred to as the Logan Valley, the railway employed 300 people, transported 11.5 million passengers a year, and traveled 7,220 scheduled route miles a day until economic conditions forced the line to discontinue service on June 2, 1954.
Winber is SSW from Altoona, approximately 50 Miles. As the paper states they were headed to Winber for George's 12th birthday on August 29, 1929. Why they called him by his middle name in the paper... ? They were taking the Altonna Railway, which was about 10 blocks north of their residence at 111 18th Street, to the Pennsylvania Railway Station, which was another 10 blocks NNE. They would have then boarded the train to Winber.