Arnold and Newlin: Parrot Jungle 1962

Located near Miami, Parrot Jungle moved to a new location in 2003 and is now called Jungle Island. 

In the Miami area the family probably stayed with Newlin's brother Lytton and his wife Opal, who lived in Coral Gables. Lytton was superintendent of Dade County schools during the period of integration in Florida. Dade County was already integrated when they planned to send their teachers for summer courses at Florida State University, which was not racially integrated at the time. When Lytton told them they would look elsewhere to accommodate their diverse teaching staff for training if they could not accommodate all the staff, FSU feared the loss of a large influx of money and quickly capitulated agreeing to allow Whites and "Coloreds" alike (using the parlance of the era).

Andrew and Allan at Parrot Jungle

Andrew

Andrew. Joel and Allan

Andrew, Allan and Joel

Allan, Andrew and Joel

Andrew

Andrew

Newlin, Joel, Andrew and Allan

Andrew and Newlin

Joel

Newlin and Andrew

Allan and Joel

Newlin, Joel, Allan, and Andrew

Newlin, Andrew and Allan

Andrew

Allan and Joel with parrots

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Arnold and Newlin: Florida 1962

Allan proudly stands by a class project at Littlewood Elementary School (barely two blocks from their home at 3448 NW 11th Avenue), which Arnie and Newlin's four sons attended. Joel is in kindergarten in 1962; Allan is in the second grade.

Allan, class photo, circa 1962 or 1963

Allan with a class project at Littlewood Elementary School, Gainesville, Florida

Allan sits with puppy Ruffy in the carport. Ruffy fell down a storm drain and died shortly after that. The carport was enclosed as a garage in 1998.

Allan with Ruffy

Joel, kindergarten class photo, circa 1962 or 1963 

Andrew and Joel, 1962

Joel, Andrew and Arnie in front of the house;
this façade had pink brink and dark brown cedar wood

Allan on the patio in the back yard

Joel in the back yard

Bill and Hazel drove their trailer across country to visit us in Florida in 1962:

Joel on his grandparents' car with their trailer in the background

In the living room, we had a set of colorful vinyl floor cushions to sit by the fireplace. Arnie and Newlin got them already in 1960 when the house was new. The first cold spell they were excited to light a fire and sit by it with another Gainesville couple they knew. The wife in that couple kept commenting on the smoke smell but the other three dismissed her complaints until Arnie stood up into a cloud of smoke hovering inches above their heads rising to the ceiling. Even though he had done the flue test to ensure there was an updraft with the flue trap open before building the fire, the chimney was partially closed by a brick or stone that had fallen down. The smoke damaged all the cabinetry in the kitchen and it all had to be stripped and refinished. The living and dining rooms had to be repainted. Since the object in the flue was too large to have be shoved down after the chimney cap had been placed, the insurer insisted the builder cover the damage.

Joel by the fireplace in the living room

Allan at the beach, most likely Crescent Beach

The family could be swimming at any one of numerous local lakes in the Gainesville area, possibly Lake Santa Fe.

Andrew, Newlin and Joel swimming in a lake, Florida, 1962

Allan, Joel, Andrew, and Newlin

Andrew, Allan and Newlin

The family visits to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Arnie is rarely in the family photos because Newlin was a lousy photographer (usually cutting off heads or feet), so the burden fell on Arnie.

Allan, Andrew, and Joel, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

Allan, Andrew, Newlin, and Joel, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

Ray Pepinsky was one of Arnie's closest friends. The two of them ran the University of Florida's biomedical engineering program. As couples, the Pepinskys and the Nevises ate dinner out frequently over the decades.

Arnie, Louise Pepinsky, Newlin, unidentified, Ray Pepinsky

Arnie must have bought some jewelry for Newlin for their anniversary on September 6:

John Wanamaker gift card from Arnie to Newlin

John Wanamaker gift card from Arnie to Newlin, probably jewelry for their anniversary on September 6, 1962

In late 1962 the family poses for a Christmas card photo:

Andrew, Arnie, Allan, Joel, and Newlin in late 1962

Nevis Christmas card 1962 with Arnold, Allan, Joel, Andrew, and Newlin

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Arnold and Newlin: Brussels, September 1961

Arnie stops over in Brussels on his return trip to the USA, around September 16 or 17, 1961.

The Atomium, constructed for Expo 1958 (Brussels World's Fair), represents a single unit of iron crystal
magnified 165 billion times, with nine spheres representing the iron molecule atoms

Grand-Place de Bruxelles

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Arnold and Newlin: Geneva, September 1961

Arnold heads from Rome to Geneva on September 15, 1961:

Train station platform, Geneva, 1961

Tomb of the Duke of Brunswick, across from the Hotel Richemond

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Arnold and Newlin: September 10–14, 1961

A letter from Newlin in Florida to Arnie at the Hotel Michelangelo in Rome, September 10, 1961:

Newlin took Allan, Joel and Andrew to her mother's in Crawfordville, but did not cross paths with her sisters Sheryl or Eloise or their families there; the Uhrigs lived next door to Arnie and Newlin; the Greers lived across the street, opposite to the Uhrigs

A postcard from Arnie in Rome to Newlin in Gainesville, September 11, 1961:

the Forum in Rome, circa 1961

It is odd that Arnie uses the German Rom, instead of Italian Roma;
the reception was probably in the Baths of Diocletian, now part of the Museo Nazionale Romano

A half envelope and a whole letter from Arnie to Newlin, September 14, 1961:

The Musei Capitolini (Capitoline Museums) is a single museum containing
a group of art and archaeological museums in Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome

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