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Stuart Homes
Newport News, VA 23607 |
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04/11/03 |
Location: 16th
Street, across from the Pony League Park
and The Beach! |
12/04/03 |
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I lived in these
apartments from the time we moved to Newport News in February 1954 until the
summer of 1960, when my father's death necessitated our move
to the
smaller and
less expensive
nearby Stuart Gardens Apartments.
I especially remember the
numerous beautiful crape myrtle trees which weren't much taller than I was at
the time. |
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Mother's Day, Sunday, May 9, 1954
First Cousins
Carol Buckley ('65) - b. 30 Aug 1947
Cheryl White (JBJH / JMHS - '64) - b. 23 Aug 1946
Outside 1309-A 16th Street, looking
ENE towards Peterson's Yacht Basin
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Easter Sunday, March 29, 1959
Best Friends
Rose Woodard ('65) - b. 21 Nov
1947
Carol Buckley ('65) - b. 30 Aug 1947
Outside 1309-A 16th Street,
looking
SE towards the
Pony League Park and
The Beach |
The osage orange tree in
the background of the first photo was a source of never-ending delight. When the
plentiful
fruits would fall to the ground, the neighborhood kids, ages 3 to 18,
would somehow locate large cardboard boxes
to build forts on the yards of the
first and fifth apartments. Suitably armed with vast supplies of osage orange
"ammo", we would take aim and fire at one another. It's a great wonder we
didn't kill someone - and an even
greater wonder that the neighborhood adults
never seemed to object to our "wars".
Lots of our friends lived
in these apartments: Rick Harman ('65), Carla ('65) and Elissa ('68) Fine, Helene ('64) and
Kenny ('67) Flick, Helene Schanzer ('69), Nancy and Karen Funk, Dr. and Mrs. William Bangle, to name a few.
David Ellenson ('65) lived
around the corner, and Jeannie ('65), Carol Lee ('63), and their baby sister,
Susie ('70) Collier
lived on the street behind,
and everybody
and their brother lived around the
corner. It was a great neighborhood!
In the summertime we
children would stay out playing each night until 10:00 PM, with the older ones
caring
for the younger ones,
and no one needed to fear for our safety.
- Carol Buckley Harty of NC
- 04/11/03, 05/03/03, 06/14/06, 07/15/14
