Tom & Carolyn Lynch- re- Pete Minego

Thanks Tom,




Eddy Hill is another good Portsmouth name and a good friend of mine. Eddy was in the Gilmer twins car the evening about five of us got into the car at Race's Service Station at Seventeenth & Hutchins for a ride to Grant Gym for a PHS basketball game. Howard Rase and I had a gentle tussel to win the front seat. I won, or at least I was in the seat.



We went down the hill about four blocks. Bob Gilmer, who died very recently, was an excellent driver. At the foot of the Hutchins hill, an unexpected car came through a stop sign and hit us. Our car was pushed towards a little triangular park, no longer there. We settled down from being shaken up and Howard asked: "Anybody hurt up there?" I looked around and said: "No, how about you guys?" Someone said: "Oh yes you are!" A nice thing about accidental injuries like this is that the nerves are ripped out with the flesh and you don't feel the pain.



It was then that I felt warm blood oozing down my face. I had broken the windshield with my forehead. No seat belts were used back then, about 1947 and between my freshman and sophomore years at PHS. The right front seat is the number 1 danger spot in most car accidents. Gib Lakeman's dad, a fireman who lived only a block west of the intersection, was the first responder. He did what he could to stop the bleeding. A 'good samaritan, volunteered to drive me to the hospital while I pressed a towel to my face. No doubt that cost the goodheart because the blood oozed more and probably saturated his floor mat.



Mercy Hospital was packed that night. Dr. Rogowski came and sewed up my forehead with twenty-eight stitches. No rooms were available so I spent a sleepless night in a hallway.



I am still amazed that more accidents don't happen all over the streets and highways. I am fully aware that the right front seat is not the seat to win in a packed automobile.



And, by the way, Tom, please name your dad's store. Pete Minego was a good reminder to a lot of us of 'the cultural center of our universe'.



Sam





----- Original Message -----

From: Tom and Carolyn Lynch

To: Sam

Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 11:12 PM

Subject: RE: PETE MINEGO





Ebby Glockner lives at Hillview, 2 rooms from Eddie Hill, but I don't know how much he will remember. Pete Minego used to come into my dad's store alot and talked to us. I remember him well.