Anyone that was around Marble Falls in the 60s should remember Glenn’s old pickup. It was his main mode of transportation for at least a decade. Often could be seen pulling that old single horse trailer.

When we finished our first project which was in Burnet in 1972, we moved on to Lakeway, A few months later we completed that job that was called The Greenway Condo’s.

Glenn’s Old Blue Ford Pickup had given up on him and he left it sitting in a field at the side of those condos, out in a patch of cedar trees. He started driving a 71 Ford 1/2 Ton that belonged to me. He and Big Jimmy Palmer went back to get it several months later after the condo project superintendent had made several calls to me about moving it. They were trying to cleanup and move on after finishing the project.

When Jimmy and Glenn got there to retrieve it, they discovered something very disturbing. At least it was disturbing to me when I was told about it. In the front passenger floor board was an almost full case of dynamite and blasting caps. We had magazines setup in a secure location not far from that project that all explosives were returned to each day.

The day Old Blue wouldn’t start and was abandoned was a day when Glenn was suppose to be returning the explosives to the magazine. Instead he climbed in with Jimmy and never gave another thought to his cargo that was left behind.

Luckily no one ever came along and discovered what was there. As you can see protocol for handling explosives was a lot more relaxed back in those days.

When they told me what had happened, Glenn explained it away by saying “nobody could see what was in there, because I had some feed sacks and a saddle blanket laid over them”.

Since he had hidden the stuff it always made me think it wasn’t completely inadvertently left that day. But I guess he hadn’t intended to leave it for several months, but he did.

Hard to believe some of the things we survived during those days.