Abt 1968 Fort

We traded a motor with Bob Nims next door for a “Doll House” that we made into a fort. We dragged it up the hill and across the yard over the old fire pit. We made a trap door in the bottom and dug a basement. Every time it rained the dirt would get wet and wormy. We eventually dragged it to the other side of the back yard and built an addition onto it that doubled the size. Later we built on an upstairs that made our fort now four times bigger than the original doll house. We added electricity via about 200 feet of extension cords strung up on the telephone poles. I shimmied up the telephone pole by the fort and tapped into the phone line to provide us phone service too. We added air-conditioning too. It’s amazing we did not start a fire with all of the extension cords. Carpet and paneling came next. We were the pride of the high school for places to hang out.