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    The Clubhouse Gang
    The Clubhouse Gang
    The Clubhouse Gang
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    The Clubhouse Gang

    By Alex R Casey

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    The Clubhouse Gang, is an account of how three close knit boys aged 7 to 10 spent there summer holidays in the year 1950. Across the globe some countries were at war. At home life was easy, crime was low; boys were un-tethered. They explored, they built, they searched, they learned; sometimes the hard way. The hardships made them different; they developed skills and character that helped them face the world. This story continues into our teen years.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlex R Casey
    Release dateOct 18, 2014
    ISBN9781311393777
    The Clubhouse Gang
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    Alex R Casey

    Alex R Casey resides in Prince George.

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      Book preview

      The Clubhouse Gang - Alex R Casey

      The Clubhouse Gang

      by Alex R Casey

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2014 Alex R Casey

      The Clubhouse Gang

      Content

      Chapter 1: Introduction

      Chapter 2: The Clubhouse

      Chapter 3: The Blackout

      Chapter 4: Defending the Clubhouse

      Chapter 5: Cigarette Smoking

      Chapter 6: The Old Army Bugle

      Chapter 7: Raiding Gardens

      Chapter 8: Raiding Apples

      Chapter 9: Target Practice

      Chapter 10: Rockets

      Chapter 11: Go Cart

      Chapter 12: Raiding Bananas

      Chapter 13: Peanuts

      Chapter 14: Outdoor Swimming Pool

      Chapter 15: The Battlefield

      Chapter 16: Kick the Can

      Chapter 17: The Slough

      Chapter 18: Building Forts

      Chapter 19: Secret Passages

      Chapter 20: Dogs in the Street

      Chapter 21: Bats

      Chapter 22: Teeter-Totter

      Chapter 23: Parachuting

      Chapter 24: Trolley Line

      Chapter 25: Hiking

      Chapter 26: Black and White TV

      Chapter 27: Walking on Stilts

      Chapter 28: Black Joe

      Chapter 29: Movie Theatres

      Chapter 30: Zinc Soldiers

      Chapter 31: Turn the Table

      Chapter 32: Lawn Camping

      Chapter 33: Building Bicycles

      Chapter 34 Tent and a Rabbit:

      Chapter 35: Broken Window

      Chapter 36: Circus

      Chapter 37: Payback

      Chapter 38: The Speeder

      Chapter 39: Bad People

      Chapter 40: The Lumber Yard

      Chapter 41: Behind High Fences

      Chapter 42: Old YMCA Building

      Chapter 43: Pennies on the Rails

      Chapter 44: Testing Ones Courage

      Chapter 45: Oh So Close

      Chapter 46: Rounded Up

      Chapter 47: Very Thirsty

      Chapter 48: Idle Hands

      Chapter 49: Learning to Drive

      Chapter 50: Edison

      Chapter 51: Cave In

      Chapter 52: Train Robbery

      Chapter 53: Blood Suckers

      Chapter 54: Rumble Seat

      Chapter 55: Leaving the Tracks

      Chapter 56: Down Town Park

      Chapter 57: City Dump

      Chapter 58: Birds and the Bees

      Chapter 59: Finger Licking Good

      Chapter 60: Taken for a Ride

      Chapter 61: Wake Up

      Chapter 62: Knife in the Store Window

      Chapter 63: The Woman From Hell

      Chapter 64: The Gadget

      Chapter 65: The Backfire

      Acknowledgement

      About the Author

      Other Books by Alex R Casey

      Copyright

      The Clubhouse Gang

      Chapter 1

      Introduction

      The year is 1950, and North Korea invades South Korea.  The Great Depression is only a faint memory, and a gallon of gasoline costs eighteen cents.  James Dean becomes well known from doing a Pepsi commercial.

      Most of the moms are home bodies; only a few have taken up part-time work.  No one locks their doors at night.  Most homes have only the basic necessities, nothing worth stealing.

      This is a time when children spend most of the daylight hours out of the house and return only when mom calls, hunger calls or it gets too dark to see.

      Here is a rendition of how a few close knit boys aged seven to ten spend their summer holiday time together.

      The political center of activities is the club house; this is the hub where most every activity starts from.

      Chapter 2

      The Clubhouse

      The club house is located above dad’s single car garage situated next to the back alley. The attic is taken over by the local neighbourhood kids and has became known as the Clubhouse.

      There is a small attic access door on the yard side of the building.  The attic has a two step roof, one much higher than the other.  One has to enter the lower roofed attic in order to reach the main area of the larger attic, a distance of about ten feet.  To access the attic a wood ladder was constructed and attached to the end of the building where the smaller door allowed access.

      As you enter through the small attic doorway, you crawl on your belly over some well placed boards above the ceiling joists; this is the only way to get to the other side of the split attic.  It is dark with only a slight bit of light filtering in from the open doorway.  The rafters in the shadows appear like giant ribs just above your head, it feels like crawling into the belly of a whale. 

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