Conway/Aldal DVDs

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2 hours ago, pwilliamconway said:

The VHS/DVD series, “75Years of Saddlemaking” was the brainchild of both Ted and my father. Aware the generation of saddle makers who were associated with great old names like Bona Allen were passing into history, they decided to combine their years of experience and teach how to make a western saddle. Ted virtually apprenticed under my father and I recall him coming to dad’s shop on South Santa Fe Dr in Littleton. The dvd seems to depict Ted as the primary instructor, but in truth the contributions involved both, though dad felt more comfortable as the behind the scenes cameraman. I don’t recall when they decided to go separate ways, but Ted went to California while dad remained in Colorado. He relocated the saddle shop to downtown Littleton in the mid 1960s and eventually sold the western retail portion to Ken Raymond and continued saddle making in a shop attached to our home in Arapahoe County. From there, he worked with Mary Woolverton, a social worker at Fitzsimmons Army Hospital, designing and building saddles that could be ridden by Vietnam Nam Veterans who were amputees. Dad was a DAV from his experiences in World War ll and he became a Baptist minister at this point in his life. In 1976, my parents moved to Colorado City in southern Colorado, where dad continued making saddles and serving churches in the area. Dad passed a way in 2000 and he and my mother are both buried at Ft. Logan National Cemetery in Denver.
 

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For an additional tidbit about who my father was: https://thebeggarsblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/when-life-is-unfair.html

 

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