Arnold's Story: July 20, 1949

I did not find the newspaper clipping Hazel references. 

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Arnold's Story: July 6, 1949 Dolly

A letter from Dolly to Arnold with family news:

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Arnold's Story: August 3, 1948

Hazel writes a birthday card and letter to her son Arnold on his 27th birthday. 

Daughter Dolly and her husband Lee have bought a used Terraplane car. 

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Arnold's Story: July 16, 1948

Bill Nevis was a keen user of gadgets and eager to acquire new technology such as his new dictaphone. One anecdote from the 1960s: We grandkids were impressed with their new color television when we visited Bill and Hazel Nevis in Whittier (where they moved after they sold the house in Glendale, to be closer to Leonard and his family). A few years later we proudly revealed that we, too, had bought a color TV, and our grandparents just smiled; they now had a remote control, years before remotes became common in American households. It was primitive device, going only in one direction, so to get to a lower channel one had to scroll through nearly all of them; luckily there were only thirteen channels plus UHF at that time.

Bill speaks in the plural about his daughter Dolly, so perhaps she is still married to Lee at that time. Dolly and Lee has a house in Glendale, too, so I wonder if his last name was McCue. I can find a Herbert Lee McCue with appropriate dates and also from Ohio, later living on the West Coast, but I can find no info linking hi to Dolly nor a marriage license or an annulment order from a court.

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Arnold's Story: June 2, 1948

Hazel is looking forward to Arnold's return in the summer. She and the family have recently visit her brother Ellwood and his family in Los Vegas. The "Clubs" would be dinner shows in night clubs by famous entertainers, not bars or dance clubs; Laura was still a child of 11 or 12. 

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