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Is Santa Claus real? A confession How being too good a detective, and a green girls Schwinn bicycle, provided a coming of age, a Santa Claus ephipany, and led a young Jamestown Hill kid into early Grinch-hood, and ruined a Christmas by revealing the secret of Santa Clause to one not ready for that burdensome knowledge. It was part of growing up in the greatest neighborhood a kid could ever want - Jamestown Hill in the mid-1950's -EW Click on headline for complete By a much older Ralph Roy Waggener When I was a young boy growing up on top of the hill on Jamestown Street here in Columbia I did some super sleuthing some deducing on this subject. I lived 3 houses below the Hwy 80 Junction on Jamestown Streets, and to young girls lived across the street and downhill a few houses Susan Russell Miller the daughter of Russell and Lorene Miller lived where the UCB Bank is now and Ann Sutton Heskamp lived the next house down, with Heskamp Street between these two big brick homes; Ann's her parents were David and Effie Heskamp. Heskamp Street was the best place to ride bikes, and I spent a lot of time riding there. My dad E. P. Waggener and by brother-in-law L. G. "Peanut" McKinley where partners in a auto parts store called M&W Auto parts and was located in the building now where Moore's Poolroom is now. My much older brother Ed had a Schwinn bicycle dealership in this business. For some reason, I don't remember why, a green girls Schwinn bike stayed on our front porch for several months, Susan Russell got one that looked just like this one from Santa for Christmas, and after some shrewder deductions on my part, I figured they were one and the same bicycle, and also figured out there was no Santa Claus. Being young and needing to impress Susan of my superior knowledge I told her that this was the same bike that was on our porch. Now Susan being the romantic like most females' are, did not like me telling her that there was no Santa! She still tells me today that I ruined her Christmas by telling her at such a young age the secret of Santa. Now at the house next door Ann Sutton did not like it a little bit that Santa had chosen to bring Susan Russell a Schwinn bicycle and not bring here one at the same time; even if Ann Sutton was not as old as Susan. David Heskamp was a business man here in Columbia and a pretty good deal maker, but met his match with his only daughter Ann Sutton and she got a bicycle by days end. I knew that both of these girls got whatever they wanted, because both where the only child - not like me being the last of 6 children - at least in my mind they did. Susan Russell is married to the famous pro bass fisherman David Upchurch and both live just on the edge of Columbia and Ann Sutton is a Curtis now and lives somewhere overseas in California or that might be in the USA. The Heskamp back yard was very big a ran a long way down Heskamp St. and had a four seater glider made of wood; Ann's mother was a Sandusky before she married David and my guess is that some of her Sandusky kin made this nice 4 person set down swing. The yard drew a lot of kids from all around. Susan Russell stills holds it against me for messing up Santa for her, but still tells me I'm going to be a pallbearer at her funeral unless I become a Republican. - Ralph Roy Waggener This story was posted on 2013-12-24 14:24:25
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