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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>Do you remember punch bords? I do.
They were a a form of gambling I remember in the Sweet Home, OR area in the
1940's. They were a bit less than a foot square, with a zillion holes
drilled through them. The bottom side was covered by a plain piece of
paper. The holes were filled with rolled up slips of paper with a win/no
win message. The top of the board was covered by a printed sheet that
named the board, and indicated where the holes were. You pay your money;
you "punch" out a hole. Mostly you won nothing,
BUT...</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>One night we stopped at a cafe in Foster (I think
the building is still there, but was vacant the last times I saw it 1998 &
2000), located on the NE corner of HWY 20 and Wiley Creek Road. My dad won
a stuffed animal on their punch board. It was a white horse about a foot
long, and not quite as high. This is one of the few things my dad ever
won.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Now why do I remember this? My mother named
the horse Dobbin; why I do not know, but I do know that she would not allow Doug
or me to play with it - Dobbin became a part of our Christmas decorations.
He spent 11 months a year carefully packed away.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Long story short: my mother gave Dobbin to Doug's
kids, and I kidnapped him from them in 1973. I still have Dobbin, but he's
far from white today. :-(</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>The trigger for this memory came from a WW II map
of Germany that I saw on the History Channel today (9-26-05), showing the town
of Dobbin!</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Yes. My Houks/Haucks came from
Germany.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Cecil</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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