Arnold and Newlin: 1963

In 1963 Newlin's nephew Guy Jr. came home to find his wife and her lover in bed. He shot and killed both. During the murder trial (he was found not guilty due to a crime of passion), his five children were farmed out to relatives. The two youngest, David and Betty, lived with us for part of that year. (Allan remembers that Betty came first but would not stop crying so he assumes that Richard was sent to keep her company and provide a familiar face.)

Arnie with the movie camera in the back yard by the Japanese plum tree (right)

Joel at Castillo de San Marcos, St. Augustine

Joel, Allan, Betty and unidentified woman, Castillo de San Marcos

David, Betty, Joel, Allan, Andrew on a Sunday after church

neighborhood kids: Dicky Greer, Mary Uhrig, Beth Collins, Jonathon Greer, Betty, and unidentified

This photo above shows the wooded lot behind our house that harbored a number of snakes and turtles for several years until a house was built.

This backyard photo shows the extension that Arnie built as his study:

Andrew and Betty in the backyard

Joel, Allan and Andrew

Joel, Allan and Andrew

Joel, Andrew and Allan

Joel with a hoe

Joel

Allan and Joel

These pool photos may be from the Gainesville Country Club, to which the family had a membership until it moved out to the Williston Road location. Allan, Joel and Andrew learned to swim there when it was still adjacent to the University of Florida.

Joel and Andrew swimming

Newlin, Joel and Allan in the pool

Allan in the backyard

Allan in the backyard

Joel riding a bike on 11th Avenue

Allan riding a bike on 11th Avenue

Joel riding a pull wagon

the first tree house Arnie built in the backyard

Arnie bought the Galaxy 500 new from a dealer and Newlin chose its turquoise color. The second car was a used Morris Minor.

Arnie and Andrew by the Morris Minor with the Galaxy 500 in the carport

This photo shows the original colors of the house: pink with turquoise trim and cedar siding. The door was distinctive with its doorknob in the center of the door. (Later it was discovered that it was an interior door not suitable for the exterior because it was hollow.)

Andrew and Newlin

Andrew and Newlin

the 1963 Nevis Christmas card 

Christmas card 

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Arnold and Newlin: Florida 1962

Allan proudly stands by a class project at Littlewood Elementary School (barely two blocks from their home at 3448 NW 11th Avenue), which Arnie and Newlin's four sons attended. Joel is in kindergarten in 1962; Allan is in the second grade.

Allan, class photo, circa 1962 or 1963

Allan with a class project at Littlewood Elementary School, Gainesville, Florida

Allan sits with puppy Ruffy in the carport. Ruffy fell down a storm drain and died shortly after that. The carport was enclosed as a garage in 1998.

Allan with Ruffy

Joel, kindergarten class photo, circa 1962 or 1963 

Andrew and Joel, 1962

Joel, Andrew and Arnie in front of the house;
this façade had pink brink and dark brown cedar wood

Allan on the patio in the back yard

Joel in the back yard

Bill and Hazel drove their trailer across country to visit us in Florida in 1962:

Joel on his grandparents' car with their trailer in the background

In the living room, we had a set of colorful vinyl floor cushions to sit by the fireplace. Arnie and Newlin got them already in 1960 when the house was new. The first cold spell they were excited to light a fire and sit by it with another Gainesville couple they knew. The wife in that couple kept commenting on the smoke smell but the other three dismissed her complaints until Arnie stood up into a cloud of smoke hovering inches above their heads rising to the ceiling. Even though he had done the flue test to ensure there was an updraft with the flue trap open before building the fire, the chimney was partially closed by a brick or stone that had fallen down. The smoke damaged all the cabinetry in the kitchen and it all had to be stripped and refinished. The living and dining rooms had to be repainted. Since the object in the flue was too large to have be shoved down after the chimney cap had been placed, the insurer insisted the builder cover the damage.

Joel by the fireplace in the living room

Allan at the beach, most likely Crescent Beach

The family could be swimming at any one of numerous local lakes in the Gainesville area, possibly Lake Santa Fe.

Andrew, Newlin and Joel swimming in a lake, Florida, 1962

Allan, Joel, Andrew, and Newlin

Andrew, Allan and Newlin

The family visits to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Arnie is rarely in the family photos because Newlin was a lousy photographer (usually cutting off heads or feet), so the burden fell on Arnie.

Allan, Andrew, and Joel, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

Allan, Andrew, Newlin, and Joel, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

Ray Pepinsky was one of Arnie's closest friends. The two of them ran the University of Florida's biomedical engineering program. As couples, the Pepinskys and the Nevises ate dinner out frequently over the decades.

Arnie, Louise Pepinsky, Newlin, unidentified, Ray Pepinsky

Arnie must have bought some jewelry for Newlin for their anniversary on September 6:

John Wanamaker gift card from Arnie to Newlin

John Wanamaker gift card from Arnie to Newlin, probably jewelry for their anniversary on September 6, 1962

In late 1962 the family poses for a Christmas card photo:

Andrew, Arnie, Allan, Joel, and Newlin in late 1962

Nevis Christmas card 1962 with Arnold, Allan, Joel, Andrew, and Newlin

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Arnold and Newlin: Life with Eddie 1953

 Photos of infant Eddie in 1953, with mom Newlin or with dad Arnie or just by himself. 

Photos like this, showing a woman's breast, were risqué for the 1950s. Arnold was never entirely sure the developer
would not turn hm in to the authorities for lewdness. Breastfeeding was typically banned in public at that time.

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