Here's what you missed, if you missed last week's post. Mom and Dad came from a small town in Western Maryland called Frostburg. They were both born and raised there, met and got married there. All of their friends and family were there. But after the Second World War, Dad took a job with a plastics manufacturing plant in Ohio, outside of Cleveland. Plastics were all the rage then. So now you're all caught up:)
Mom and Dad were savers from the start of their long marriage. Heck, right after they were married and for about two years, they didn't tell anyone about the wedding so that each could live at home with their parents and save every penny. ( I stumbled into this information in the 1940 US Census which had Mom as single, when I knew they had been married two years by then!)
My Dad's sister let it be known that my Mom and Dad were married and the word got around town so they soon got an apartment and set up housekeeping. When they did that, they made a promise to themselves to save $100 a?month from the paychecks right off the top. That was a fortune then.
The $100 savings plan continued and when they drove off from Frostburg in the new car heading to Ohio, they had paid cash money for it. We moved to Chagrin Falls where they rented a house. The house sat up on a hill overlooking the village. Mom and I would walk down the hill to my dentist's upstairs office with the big window. And of course there was the river and the falls to see whenever we went to the village. The woman who lived next door had tuberous begonias and Mom loved them so much that she still sends away for bulbs every winter to be delivered each spring. Across the street was an institution?for the mentally ill. Funny the stuff you remember.
On Sundays we'd drive around and familiarize ourselves with the areas. Then?Mom and Dad?started looking for a real suburban house to buy. When they found one they paid $15,000, in cash! The house was two blocks from school so I could walk and come home for lunch. It was a little two bedroom house built in a development where most of the houses looked alike. I knew where the bathroom was in all of my friends houses without being told because all the floor plans were very much alike.
It was a good house and we stayed there for about nine years. Mom loved the fireplace in the living room in winter and the sun porch in summer. I learned to ride a bike there and we all welcomed my baby brother home from the hospital there.
Dad would sometimes bring home cool toy samples from the plastics plant, where he was VP of Production, for all the neighborhood kids. The week he brought home hula-hoops I was the most popular kid on the block!
Guess we often learn about money management from parents, so thanks Mom and Dad for an excellent financial lesson! Dad's gone now but when I pull into the gas station I can hear him swear at the big sign out front saying it's back over $4 a gallon:)
Us leaving Frostburg for Ohio in 1952 in the new car.
The Kelly Grandparents come for a visit in Ohio to play with their grandson.
Helen Zeller Kelly 1894-1985,?John Lee Kelly 1892 - 1969.
Me in front of the house on Maple Heights Avenue,
Top Halloween and bottom Easter.
Source: http://nutsfromthefamilytree.blogspot.com/2013/02/sentimental-sunday-moving-to-ohio-early.html
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