Well we are married and on our way to our life. Full of love, happiness, innocent as all get out! Hardly any money , no job, apartment, and just a 1954 Chevy station wagon that I hated with all passion but it was given to us , paid for and in great condition except NO AC or heat!!!! What were we thinking...God only knows and in His great wisdom decided to let us just do it our way...lol. Made it to Orlando on that monday night the 3rd day of our marriage. No honeymoon to speak of, spent our marriage night at the Golden Arrow Motel on Miami Beach. Honey watch the Bears play football for a little bit then we got things going! That was the extent of our honeymoon. Spent the next 2 nights with my grandmother Hull as she was by herself and had 2 extra bedrooms and begged us to stay with her. thank you grandma Hull for what you have meant to us. She was such a godly woman , quiet, not saying much but always wanted the best for everyone.So we spent the 2 nights with her.
On to Orlando. there we stay with my best friend in high school, Vickie. She and I were such close friends while in high school spending alot of time on the phone....Wi7-5077, then Wilson7-5077 then 747--5077 then 301-747-5077...now disconnected. My sister had it disconnected when mother passed away and the phone co was horrified as it was one of the oldest listing! As far as I know it hasn't been relisted. I hope they retired that number...Vickie and I also went to the All Night Singing Southern Gospel Concerts. Boy did we want to be a member of them...loved that music and still do. Honey and I go to Louisville to the Convention every year. Back to Orlando...lol we really had a good time with Vickie and her husband, they took us all over Orlando and not sure what else we did except talk!!!!Which we were good about doing!!!!!
Then on to Decatur Alabama to stay with honeys folks until going to Nashville to start our married life and go to college. But on the way we stopped in the valley, Lanett,Al to stay with some of his friends ( do you get the picture? No motels, no $$$, should have taken the warning of things to come!!!!!!). They were gracious folks gave us some towels and gifts that helped us though our life.
By the time we got to Nashville, I was worn out and tired and oh by the way, my brother Charles, who passed away in 1974, had come with Wayne, honeys brother, to visit as he got tired of staying with them and came with us to Nashville.....had to find a job,an apartment that day, buy groceries and get ready for college.....and we did. Honey found a job at the Park Plaza Motel as a night auditor,found an upstairs apt and get this, had to go through their home and through an old ladies bedroom to get to the stairs to our apt. the bathroom was downstairs in the old ladies bedroom...Tell me why I didn't just run to the nearest train station and flee!!!!LOVE!
Well, the mice ate our food so we moved within 2 weeks to another apt. It was in an old victorian home that was made into a duplex. Shared bathroom (Lord help me) with the couple. The old man was blind and would hit the floor all day and night with his cane....the lady was nice and she tried to help me with things while I was in school. That lasted for a few months...this story goes on and on. I will continue it another time...I don't think I got the picture of things to come and glad I didn't as I don't think I would have survived except the Love of God and my precious honey who tried to make it right and good for us.
Thanks for listening grandpa to this girls chatter. I love you J
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PS" Lost contact with my best friend , Vickie, until about 2 years ago and found each other again.
Never to loose again ! Love you Vickie.
Love you, too and always will. Your writing above is very similar to mine- just after marriage! Will give you the low-down sometime about that. LOL
Looking forward to your blog...I imagine that 75% of people had problems like us...but we made it finally!!!!
Judy - this story of the apartment is a stitch! Our 1st apt. was in the stone house behind Hardy Hall, the one that was surrounded by a junk yard - There was one main entrance (I don't remember it ever being locked and I don't remember us having a key - so much for trust). . . up the stairs and then the hall that seperated our bedroom from the l.rm & Kitchen - the hall cont. around and down to the shared bathroom. There were 2 apartments on the top floor. Gerald loves to tell people that I painted the bedroom furn. black and dyed the curtains and bedspread drk green - which I did ~ but you cap the stack - through the old ladies bedroom and shared a bath with her - we were in a brain fog and we called it love. We had one motel night in Atlanta - it cost $8 and we ate one meal that was horrible (we were the last ones in the resturant) We watched the Shirley Temple's show - the next day we went back to Gadsden and stayed at the parsonage (Mother & Dad had gone to Florida for Christmas),then on to B'ham for a few days with G's folk. . . no money and a '49 Chevy with no paneling inside and certainly no heat or ac. Who wrote the script for our lives??? Surely this was not the fate of all Trevecca students who married during school -and here we are 52 years later. . . we made it through, all of it, and we ain't home yet!, p
Paulette, I have laughed and laughed at your story...tell me more.....I thought we had it rough but like you said " surely not all of the TNC married students" had it rough and for what...LOVE LOVE..thats what makes the world go around!!!! thanks!!!
I remembered that that first apartment was on Valeria Street in Woodbine. Then the next one was on Peachtree St. the third was on Lester Ave and the fourth and fifth was on Nance Lane...gotta get it right!!!!!
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