My first job: model @ Davison Paxton:
At age 4 my mother signed me up as a model at a kid’s fashion show at Davison Paxon (one of 2 large department stores in Atlanta). I...
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May 291 min
West Point Plantation, St Simons Island; Maxwell & Elizabeth Berry
My mothers’ brother, Maxwell Berry, built a very successful business before and during the war called the Electric Products Company, in...
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May 291 min
Interesting People:
I met a lot of interesting people during my youth. Mose Claude Preston Drewry Whit Hart Milners & Troop 1 PH
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May 291 min
Charles James Currie, Jr.
Born: July 14, 1928 Died: September 29, 1998 Charles was a major presence in my early life. I was, all too often, his punching bag. One...
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May 291 min
Art
Who I was home with an illness, my mother would give me old Christmas cards. I then made constructions using the colored parts of the...
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Apr 191 min
Fonville McWhorter Obituary
Family-Placed Death Notice McWHORTER, Fonville, Jr. Fonville McWhorter, Jr. age 82, from Atlanta, GA, passed away on Sunday, October 17,...
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Mar 112 min
The Brooms
No recollection of my youth would be incomplete without a discussion of the Broome family, which lived across West Wesley from us....
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Mar 111 min
The aggie at St. Simons beach:
During the summer of my 4th birthday, I was playing with marbles on the beach at Saint Simons Island, GA. In spite of a lot of...
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Mar 111 min
Our RCA VICTROLA:
We had an early Victrola, one of the tall wooden ones where the case was built around the speaker enabling a much longer “horn”. No...
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Mar 111 min
Born with 1 white hair!
Born with 1 white hair! I was told that at birth, I had one white hair. It did not las long but finally came back late in life with a lot...
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Feb 161 min
Deceased Friends
Henry Jackson Sandy Gill Jim Manry Harold McKenzie Hix Green John Grant Frank Jarrell Booty Livingston Jim White Seth Mellen Dick Osgood...
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Feb 161 min
Lost in Joshua Tree National Monument
n the spring of 1969 or so, Sally and I took the boys camping in Joshua Tree National Monument (now Park). On the last day the boys and I...
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Feb 164 min
Pets in my life:
Button: Button was an all-black kitten with a white spot (button) on his throat. I got him on my 4th or 5th birthday. All mine, but not...
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Feb 163 min
Mississippi Curries
Mid-1930s: our family would drive to Meridian, MS, every summer for a week or so. We would stay at Grandmother Currie’s little brick...
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Feb 161 min
Conka, give me my gun!
One night our cook Esther had a date with Horace. They came back late and parked at the end of our driveway on Vernon Road. My parents...
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Feb 161 min
Family Discipline
Discipline was rather strict most of the time at our house. Charles was the main infractor and got into trouble frequently, mainly by...
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Feb 163 min
Parents & Family
“Big Charlie”, or as Charles and I called him during our teens in his absence: “Snazro” or “Bic”, was our father. Life had not been easy...
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Feb 161 min
Morningside Drive & 87 West Wesley Road
My first home was on Morningside Drive in Atlanta, not far from Piedmont Avenue. I don’t recall a lot about Morningside. There was a...
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Feb 162 min
Cocoa, Florida
Cocoa Florida was my favorite destination in the late 30’s and early to mid 40’s. My mother’s sister Margaret Lyons, who Charles & I...
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Feb 161 min
Asbestos: we loved and played with it.
Somewhere Manry found rocks with asbestos fibers hanging out. We would scrape them off and mess with them in our fingers. They would not...
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