Arnold's Story: January 12, 1948

I am not sure of the address or street mentioned below. There is a Marquette St. in Albuquerque, New Mexico, so perhaps this is where Hazel went to bear children (for Arnold and Dolly — Leonard arrived unexpectedly early while there were still in Bluewater) or else her family lived there before she married. 215 North Edith may also be in Albuquerque, too, though it is now an empty lot, so maybe the old house was torn down after 1947.

Some language has changed in the past 70 years: Hazel says French fried potatoes rather than the current phrase French fries. And she writes motion picture camera, where we would now say movie camera. The trend is toward shorter expressions.

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Arnold's Story: January 2, 1948

A newsy letter from Hazel about their Christmas and New Years holidays:

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Arnold's Story: December 1, 1947 LJN

Here is a letter from Leonard to his brother Arnold. Len finds it hard work to break into the New York accounting and records market, and is planning to start to do sales himself. The train ride from Madison, New Jersey, to New York City takes a little over an hour on New Jersey Transit today, but runs under the Hudson River to Penn Station. The Lackawanna Railroad went only to Hoboken Terminal, where ferries took passengers across the Hudson River to lower Manhattan, yet Len says his commute to downtown Manhattan is less than an hour and faster than the subway trip from Rockaway in Queens Borough. 

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Arnold's Story: November 25, 1947

Arnold's sister-in-law Pat writes him, canceling their Thanksgiving plans. They now hope to be in they new apartment in Madison, New Jersey, by December and have invited Arnold down to spend Christmas with them.  

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