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Contributed by Gary Swaim

Pop as a Soda Jerk - 1932
Ardmore, Carter County, Oklahoma

 

My father, Glyn D. Swaim, in 1932, when he was a soda jerk at the largest hotel in Ardmore, OK.  He married Juanita Oxford of Ardmore, OK on May 16, 1933.  She was the daughter of Thomas Jefferson Oxford and Callie Jewel Smith, who died in the influenza epidemic of 1918.  Juanita was born July 5, 1916.  The picture below was taken at her home in San Bernadino, CA.