Conrad Thomas Franklin ATKIN

                      Conrad met Luella while riding a train through Utah on the way to the oil fields in Wyoming.  They didn't talk to each other on the train but when he got off he gave her his add. and asked her to write to him. H e soon enlisted in the army and served during world war no.1.  They corresponded for 15 mos. while he was in the service and he went back to salt Lake City and married her.
      World War 1 civilian draft reg. database ;  Conrad T. Atkin b.Aug.1896 in Lake Forest Ill. He registered in  Converse, Wyoming.
Memories of Conrad and Boyd.   Going to the Naval boxing matches in 1932 in Long Beach. and when starting home on the seashore the earthquake hit.   Their dad sat them in the middle of a vacant lot , and went back to help others with a brick house that had crumbled.   They saw a dog tied to a car and he would run out to the end of the rope and then the swaying of the car would jerk him back.  The ground looked like it was rolling under the car.   They saw pigeons that would try land but because of the earths motion couldn't.  Their was oil running down the streets and some derricks burning.  They cooked out in front yard for a week.  The government sent out bricks of coal,like charcoal to cook with.   Remembers going to a river (The Colorado ) and bringing home a catfish and keeping it in the washing machine until someone put  carbide in it and killed the fish.  One time he took the boys to Mexico and as they were walkin down the sidewalk they saw a panhandler with his eye laying on his cheek.  In Vallejo . Boyd remembers staying with him while he was working there and Louella was still in Redding.  He remembers a man and woman fighting and they stopped and watched them and saw a man walk up to them and tried to stop them and when he did they both started beating on him.  And his dad said "let that be a lesson to you, and don't get involved in domestic fights."       Conrad remembers his dad taking them to a vacant field when Boyd was abt. 11/2 and paying a couple of dollars to take them for a ride.  He held Conrad by his ankles and Boyd on his lap in an open seated bi-plane.   Conrad remembers his mom  and dad taking them to  a restaurant in Salt Lake City and being scared by a man in a bear costume.