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Showing posts with label Florida. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Arnold and Newlin: 1980

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. 

1980 photo by Joel A. Nevis

1980 photo by Joel A. Nevis

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.

Arnie and Newlin with an acquaintance at an event

1980 photo by Joel A. Nevis
Allan, Ava, Arnie, Newlin, Eric, and Andrew on the "porch"

Arnie on Father's Day

1980 photo by Joel A. Nevis

1980 photo by Joel A. Nevis

1980 photo by Joel A. Nevis

Doug Weldon was Eric's close friend from Westwood Middle School:

1980 photo by Joel A. Nevis
Doug Weldon with Eric and Andrew

Eric in his parents' bedroom (painting of Eddie)

1980 photo by Newlin A. Nevis
Eric, Arnie and Andrew

Newlin in an RV

Newlin in her kitchen; those years had tangerine paint

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.

1980 photo by Joel A. Nevis
Eric, Arnie and Andrew at the Wakulla Springs Hotel

1980 photo by Newlin A. Nevis
Eric, Allan, Arnie, Andrew, and Joel at the Wakulla Springs Hotel

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.

Eric relaxing in the family room

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Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Arnold and Newlin: 1979

1979 brings Joel's graduation from the University of Florida and other activities (beach, concert, eating watermelon.

1979 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Joel in cap and gown, Newlin and Eric

Joel wearing graduation cap and disco glasses

Joel with University of Florida graduate Jeff Prine, December

1979 photo by Joel A. Nevis
Eric chomping down on watermelon

Newlin, Eric and Arnie in the back yard

Joel at Crescent Beach

Joel at the beach

1979 photo by Jeffrey G. Prine
Joel dressed a disco cowboy, with friends Rita and Barbie, for a Village People concert

Arnold's Board of Medical Examiners renewal for 1980–1981

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Saturday, August 14, 2021

Arnold and Newlin: 1976

The Nevises in 1976:

Joel, now in college, with high school friend David O'Brien

Arnold and Newlin always kept their Board credentials up to date

Andrew's high school photo from Buchholz

1976 photo by Joel A. Nevis
Arnie and Newlin in front of the fireplace at Christmas

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Friday, August 6, 2021

Arnold and Newlin: Gainesville 1972

Newlin's sister Floreine Ashmore Marshall (later Floreine Langston, when she remarried) lived in Gainesville during the 1960s and came to the house countless times. Here she joins us in Westside Park, two blocks from our house on 11th Avenue.

1972 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Floreine at Westside Park

1972 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Eric and Allan at the park

1972 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Joel and Andrew at the park

1972 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Eric climbing a dogwood tree in our side yard 

1972 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Eric climbing a tree in the backyard

1972 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Eric climbing a tree in the backyard

1972 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Eric with a wheelbarrow

1972 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Eric climbing a carport support

Flo smoked in those years, and here she is sitting outside enjoying a cigarette with some birthday cake. But she quit smoking in the mid 1960s after the school system rolled out an anti-smoking campaign. We kids would see Aunt Flo smoking and ask if she knew that for every minute smoking it was a minute off her life. 

1972 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Flo eating cake and smoking in the back yard

1972 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Eric taking a break in the wheelbarrow

1972 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Eric standing in the wheelbarrow

1972 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Eric on the carport

1972 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Joel hiding Easter eggs

1972 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Allan, Eric, Andrew, and Joel; Eric has an Easter basket

1972 photo by Newlin Nevis
Allan, Andrew, Joel, Eric (with Easter basket), and Arnold

1972 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Allan, Newlin and Joel

1972 photo by Arnold H. Nevis
Allan, Eric, Andrew, and Joel on Easter Sunday

We did not attend cousin Martha Gail's wedding, but Aunt Eloise made sure we got a photo from it.

wedding of Martha Gail Langston and Gary Hurd

Joel

1972 photo by Olin Mills Studio
Arnie and Newlin


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