Arnold's Story: May 30, 1950

Arnold writes with the details of his flight home to Los Angeles. 

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Arnold's Story: April 8, 1950

Arnold writes about future travel — to New York City at Easter and to California in June. He jokes about his "Scotch" blood when citing Ben Nevis. The Nevis family is Portuguese, originally Neves, and we adopted the Scottish spelling Nevis to keep the pronunciation closer to the Portuguese, so there is no genetic relationship to the name of the mountain in Scotland.

We see in 1950 that a cross-country round-trip airfare is $278 for coach and $364 for "Sky Chief"/ "Californian"/"Sky King". In 2021 dollars they translate into $3000 (coach) and $4000 (deluxe), so it is quite a luxury to travel by airplane in 1950. Arnold saying that the difference is $80–90 would be about $1000 in today's money.

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Arnold's Story: 1944 poem

Arnold wrote this poem some time in 1944 on a plane, so possibly when we flew home to California at the end of the summer. 

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