Front Row: Patsy Titsworth, Peggy Sue McKinney, Ellie Latheal McKinney, Betty Lou McKinney, Aaron Edgar McKinney,
Back Row: Robert Earl McKinney, Curtis Kay McKinney and Donald Anderson.

This photo was taken at Lonnie and Julia Barksdale Anderson's home in Sabinal. Next door to the right on the corner was Titsworth's Grocery & Feed.  The store was located on the Northwest corner of the intersection of Center St. and the old San Antonio Hwy. There was a service Station on the North Corner. I believe it was a Sinclair. It had a separate roofed open wash rack next to it. This later became a Dairy Qeen. I had a job of cleaning the ice cream maker and cleaning up. I think 10c a day. Later on became Rollie Davenport's barbecue place. His barbecued goat was famous. Don't know if his recipe survived him. Uncle Happy would  take a shortcut through the outer drive when driving home. There was another service station on the Northeast corner. I remember it had a 19c gallon sign painted on it. This later was enclosed and became a Washeteria. The Southeast corner was vacant but Mike Smith later built Larro Feed Store there. We would climb a chinaberry tree behind Mike's store on the weekend and shielded by the leaves would smoke our cigarettes. We bought these at the Mexican Restaurant on Center St. Lucky Strike Cigs were in a green and red package and cost 19c. We would also go to Mexican Town and buy cigarettes at Flores Grocery. I remember one time thy were selling sugar cookies outside of the store. They were covered with flies. Of course back then everyone had outhouses there too. No one thought about that and shooed away the flies and enjoyed the "pon dulce". Waldrips Service Station was on the right about half a block from the intersection where Titsworths was. It was east toward San Antonio. Also there was an old time Motel down aways on the left. We aired our bike tires at these service stations and also got the red inner tubes there which we made "Nigger Shooters" out of. The red rubbers were much better than the new artificial rubber "butyl" inner tubes which came out about then. Patsy does not look happy here. She had just pushed me down on the sidewalk and made me cry. I remember that it really hurt my feelings . When I started crying she said: "I'm sorry". I think she still got in trouble though. Tommy Joe "Tucker" Titsworth is not in the picture. We played with Patsy's older brother a lot too. We played at Donald's house but could not play near Grandmother Mollie Barksdale's window because she was bedridden. I remember playing Tiddly Winks at their house. The Anderson's had a beautiful carpet grass yard and pecan trees. Uncle "Nonny" loved his pecan trees and when he was buried at Sabinal Cemetery they planted a pecan tree at the head of his grave. The last time I was there the large pecan tree spread above him. That would have made him happy. Uncle Nonny taught me how to use a hammer. I was with him on the tin roof he was installing behind the Sunshine Cafe. The cafe was next to Buckhorn Barber Shop. It was later owned by Hood Madeley's dad. It would later become Dr. Wood's office. Zook Arnim had a small Hamburger place next. It was later used for Dr. Jacques office.

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