Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

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Mrs. Culp's Diary, Sunday, March 7, 1937

Mrs. Culp's Diary, Sunday, March 7, 1937

Wallace gets a cowboy hat

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Mrs. Culp's Diary, Sunday, March 7, 1937
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The Culps spent the day at Clearwater Beach, taking a picnic lunch. They came home at 3 p.m. so Walter could take a nap before going on desk duty at the Bay View. "He gave Wallace [grandson] a large cowboy hat," Mrs. Culp wrote, adding enigmatically, "Is he happy?" I bet he was! The craze for Westerns was in full swing and young boys loved seeing serial…

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