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Monday, July 5, 2021

Arnold and Newlin: 1963

In 1963 Newlin's nephew Guy Jr. came home to find his wife and her lover in bed. He shot and killed both. During the murder trial (he was found not guilty due to a crime of passion), his five children were farmed out to relatives. The two youngest, David and Betty, lived with us for part of that year. (Allan remembers that Betty came first but would not stop crying so he assumes that Richard was sent to keep her company and provide a familiar face.)

Arnie with the movie camera in the back yard by the Japanese plum tree (right)

Joel at Castillo de San Marcos, St. Augustine

Joel, Allan, Betty and unidentified woman, Castillo de San Marcos

David, Betty, Joel, Allan, Andrew on a Sunday after church

neighborhood kids: Dicky Greer, Mary Uhrig, Beth Collins, Jonathon Greer, Betty, and unidentified

This photo above shows the wooded lot behind our house that harbored a number of snakes and turtles for several years until a house was built.

This backyard photo shows the extension that Arnie built as his study:

Andrew and Betty in the backyard

Joel, Allan and Andrew

Joel, Andrew and Allan

Joel with a hoe

Joel

Allan and Joel

These pool photos may be from the Gainesville Country Club, to which the family had a membership until it moved out to the Williston Road location. Allan, Joel and Andrew learned to swim there when it was still adjacent to the University of Florida.

Joel and Andrew swimming

Newlin, Joel and Allan in the pool

Allan in the backyard

Joel riding a bike on 11th Avenue

Allan riding a bike on 11th Avenue

Joel riding a pull wagon

the first tree house Arnie built in the backyard

Arnie bought the Galaxy 500 new from a dealer and Newlin chose its turquoise color. The second car was a used Morris Minor.

Arnie and Andrew by the Morris Minor with the Galaxy 500 in the carport

This photo shows the original colors of the house: pink with turquoise trim and cedar siding. The door was distinctive with its doorknob in the center of the door. (Later it was discovered that it was an interior door not suitable for the exterior because it was hollow.)

Andrew and Newlin

the 1963 Nevis Christmas card

Christmas card

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Sunday, July 4, 2021

Arnold and Newlin: Seattle World's Fair 1962

We have slides from the 1962 Century 21 Exposition (the Seattle World's Fair), but I do not know who in the family visited it at that time. It might have been Arnie, who possibly went to a meeting in Seattle and took extra time to see the exposition. Or it might have been Bill and Hazel, who enjoyed travel and who would have been attracted to such a fair.

Most of the slides feature the imposing Space Needle, but there are some of pavilions as well.

International Fountain

Space Needle

Monorail (built by Alweg Rapid Transit System)

Space Needle

Pavilion of Electric Power

Space Needle

Safeco Insurance Pavilion

U.S. Science Pavilion and Space Needle

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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).