Ringing Bells for the Sallies, December 1965

Christmas 1965, NYC. This looks like a bus, could be the subway. The blonde is Evie Spencer. Looks like we'd done some shopping.

Christmas 1965, Scarsdale NY. The Sallies sent us out each morning EARLY to meet the commuter lines in different locations. Then we worked all day at various shopping areas, Then when we were finally off-duty, we used the rest of each 24 hours to explore the big city through the night. There was no sleep during that two weeks.

Christmas 1965, Scarsdale NY. We four were assigned to the Yonkers Sally HQ. That's where we ate and slept (well, no actual sleeping occurred). It was from there that we ventured out in a rattletrap Salvation Army station wagon to all parts of Gotham.

Comments from 2010:

Jim Achmoody

Wow does that bring back memories of Manhattan etc.

Terrell Shaw
Sorry that we chopped you in two, Kim. 

John Countryman
Love the ear muffs!

Jennifer Kellogg
Love this!

John Paul Schulz
The making of a liberal.

Terrell Shaw
Since they worked us from daylight till dark we felt obliged to use the hours of darkness for seeing the city... never mind sleep. Joan showed us the city. This eighteen year-old Georgia boy drove that dilapidated Sally wagon all over the city at all hours, as if I knew what I was doing.

Joan Doelick, a local Sally employee was our driver and companion for the duration of our assignment. Evie Spencer is in the front passenger seat. You see the folded feet of the ever-present kettle apparatus.

Here our driver and fearless leader, Joan Doelick, looks away from the road as I snap her picture. See me in the mirror? Well, my fingers, anyway.

Evie was a senior and I was a lowly freshman, but pickings were slim I s'pose (no offense, Kim, as I recall you were taken at the time ;-)) and she deigned to allow me to court her for the duration of this adventure. I was mightily stricken and greatly honored by her attention. Here we do a little cooking in the kitchen of the Sally HQ in Yonkers.

Christmas 1965, outside the Scarsdale NY railway station.

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Note from the future (2023)

Kim Gilson made comments on these pictures in 2010 but, sadly, his comments have disappeared. He was in a terrible auto accident in April of 2015. He died that June.