Here is the house at 3448 NW 11th Avenue in 1980. It has the original paint scheme of 1960: pink, turquoise, and brown cedar. The carport has not been closed in, despite a plan to do it from the early 1970s. The bricks in the planter in the first photo came from an old mechanic's garage in downtown Gainesville. When they tore down that garage, Joel and Allan assume they were going to toss the bricks so they started loading the trunk of the car with bricks until a police officer came by and told them the bricks were to be recycled into the new plaza. But the officer said he would look the other way as Allan and Joel left with what they had already collected.
The camellia by the front door always bloomed in December in time for Christmas. Neighbors would stop by to request a few blossoms for their Christmas decor, and Newlin never hesitated to say yes. A second camellia balanced the living room window by the carport; it bloomed a few months later at the end of winter. In the planter around the tree she grew several colors of amaryllis.
Arnie bought a number of narrow, woven wool ties in Sweden (mostly in Lapland) in 1970, and preferred that style to the wide ties popular in the 1970s and 1980s.
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| Arnie and Newlin with an acquaintance at an event |
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| Allan, Ava, Arnie, Newlin, Eric, and Andrew on the "porch" |
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| Arnie on Father's Day |
Doug Weldon was Eric's close friend from Westwood Middle School:
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| Doug Weldon with Eric and Andrew |
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| Eric in his parents' bedroom (painting of Eddie) |
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| Eric, Arnie and Andrew |
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| Newlin in an RV |
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| Newlin in her kitchen; those years had tangerine paint |
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| Newlin, Arnie, and Jeannie Uhrig |
We usually stayed at the Wakulla Spring Hotel when the Ashmore family reunion was held there. Most of the Ashmore siblings and their families were within driving distance of Wakulla Springs.
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| Eric, Arnie and Andrew at the Wakulla Springs Hotel |
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| Eric, Allan, Arnie, Andrew, and Joel at the Wakulla Springs Hotel |
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| Newlin's business card as a school nurse |
In 1980 we still had the orange vinyl fold-out couch in the family room. Eric is on a tubular "bean bag" that Joel and Newlin made in the mid 1970s. It, too, was vinyl, and some thirteen feet long and maybe twenty inches in diameters. Filled with shredded foam rubbed, it could be arranged in a number of ways for watching television and was popular with the boys and their friends for slouching on.
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| Eric relaxing in the family room |
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