Posted on 03/11/2021 6:25:28 PM PST by nickcarraway
Bob Adams has something that most people do not — a memory from 1923.
“I was just learning to walk, and I started to follow my father down to the basement — he went down to fix the furnace,” Adams says. “I started after him, and I went tumbling down to the landing and hit my head on the cat’s dish.” When Adams hit his head on that cat dish, he was 2 years old.
On Feb. 15, 98 years later, Adams celebrated his 100th birthday, and he celebrated in style, with a personal car parade outside of his apartment in Quarryville Presbyterian Retirement Community. Flanked by daughters Gail Miller and Regina “Regi” Chandler – and in spirit by his third daughter, Terri Jones, who died in November – Adams received a line of cars and firetrucks bearing his name on the side. Some 75 people from throughout his life came to visit while Adams, in a chair, sat outside and received them one by one.
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Great story! I created a fictional Email to get in and it worked!
My two older brothers and a sister were veterans of WWII...
He took photos of Albert Einstein, and thought that Einstein was in his 50s. Einstein turned 60 in 1939 before Mr. Adams became a photographer.
Cool story, God Bless him.
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