Arnold's Story: September 8, 1949

In a Special Delivery letter Bill writes with pride how well his business is doing and which of the salesmen cover what territory for the Ideal System Company. He plans his trip to Boston for a visit with Arnold and wants to stay at the Parker House, famous for having invented the Boston cream pie and Parker House rolls. 

From this letter I now understand why Dolly has her mother's name — Dolly was born on Hazel's birthday and was christened Mary Hazel Nevis after her mother Mary Hazel (Wolfe) Nevis.

next post  September 9, 1949

previous post  September 5, 1949 MHN

first post in Arnold's Story  July 1943

first post in blog  Leonard's Story: May 29, 1943

Arnold's Story: September 5, 1949 MHN

Charlton Flats is in the Angeles National Forest, about a 25–30 mile drive from Glendale.

next post  September 8, 1949

previous post  September 5, 1949 AHN

first post in Arnold's Story  July 1943

first post in blog  Leonard's Story: May 29, 1943

Arnold's Story: September 5, 1949 AHN

Arnold writes home to his mother asking for assistance in buying upcoming birthday presents for  his sister Dolly and his sister-in-law Pat. He will call his father, who is on a business trip to New York City, so they can arrange a visit in either Boston or in New York.

next post  September 5, 1949 MHN

previous post  August 29, 1949

first post in Arnold's Story  July 1943

first post in blog  Leonard's Story: May 29, 1943

Arnold's Story: August 29, 1949

Hazel enjoys her newly remodeled kitchen. 

next post  September 5, 1949 AHN

previous post  August 15, 1949

first post in Arnold's Story  July 1943

first post in blog  Leonard's Story: May 29, 1943

Arnold's Story: August 15, 1949

Arnold has signed up for one of the tests of the National Board of Medical Examiners and this receipt shows he paid $20 for it.

next post  August 29, 1949

previous post  August 11, 1949

first post in Arnold's Story  July 1943

first post in blog  Leonard's Story: May 29, 1943

Arnold's Story: August 11, 1949

It is hard to imagine today that this card could be sent for just one cent.

next post  August 15, 1949

previous post  August 8, 1949

first post in Arnold's Story  July 1943

first post in blog  Leonard's Story: May 29, 1943

Arnold's Story: August 8, 1949

Arnold thanks his family for their birthday gifts to him. With some of his birthday money, he bought Men of Mathematics, 1937, by E. T. Bell, and a biography of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, who was a 1906 Nobel prize winner as a Spanish scientist, pathologist, and histologist specializing in neuroanatomy and the central nervous system. 

next post  August 11, 1949

previous post  August 2, 1949 WEN

first post in Arnold's Story  July 1943

first post in blog  Leonard's Story: May 29, 1943

Arnold's Story: August 2, 1949 WEN

Bill writes his son Arnold about his upcoming business trip 

next post  August 8, 1949

previous post  August 2, 1949

first post in Arnold's Story  July 1943

first post in blog  Leonard's Story: May 29, 1943

Arnold and Leonard's Story: August 2, 1949

Leonard writes Arnold with birthday greetings. 

Len and Pat are in the middle of moving apartments.

632A Ivy Street in Glendale appears to be a single family dwelling (at least today in 2021) rather than a duplex as Hazel described in the previous post. Perhaps there is second structure behind the one in the image below that would make this a duplex.

632A Ivy Street, Glendale, California (Google Maps, 3/9/2021)

next post  August 2, 1949 WEN

previous post  July 26, 1949

first post in Arnold's Story  July 1943

first post in blog  Leonard's Story: May 29, 1943

Arnold's Story: July 26, 1949

It appears that they got Arnold's letter of July 22 already the next day, the 23rd. That really is wonderful mail service. Seventy years later there is no improvement on that; rather a decline, I would say.

The enclosures Hazel mentions are missing. Hazel's kitchen remodeling job has begun but there are still some details to finish.

next post  August 2, 1949 LJN

previous post  July 21, 1949

first post in Arnold's Story  July 1943

first post in blog  Leonard's Story: May 29, 1943

Arnold's Story: July 21, 1949

Arnold is enjoying his work at the Providence Lying-In Hospital (later called the Women and Infants Hospital, now a rehabilitation and hospice center).

next post  July 26, 1949 

previous post  July 20, 1949

first post in Arnold's Story  July 1943

first post in blog  Leonard's Story: May 29, 1943

Arnold's Story: July 20, 1949

I did not find the newspaper clipping Hazel references. 

next post  July 21, 1949 

previous post  July 11, 1949

first post in Arnold's Story  July 1943

first post in blog  Leonard's Story: May 29, 1943

Arnold's Story: July 11, 1949

The new kitchen appliances have been delivered (electric range, sink and disposal, dishwasher, freezer, washing machine, and water softener) and are stored in the rumpus room. The rumpus room was a downstairs casual room with a pool table, if my memory serves me right. Arnold's wife/our mother recalled seven levels in that house at 501 East Mountain St., Glendale. There was an entry and living room, up a few steps to the dining room and kitchen, up one floor to two bedrooms, from the dining room up a half flight to the main bedroom, from the dining room down one story to the rumpus room, which was at the same level as the patio in the back yard. And I suppose the garage was a few steps from the kitchen and pantry. I count only six levels here, so I must be missing one.

next post  July 20, 1949 

previous post  July 6, 1949 Dolly

first post in Arnold's Story  July 1943

first post in blog  Leonard's Story: May 29, 1943