Memory Monday

“Marriage: Love is the reason. Lifelong friendship is the gift. Kindness is the cause. Til’ death do us part is the length.”  -Fawn Weaver

     The wedding is over; the honeymoon is in the past; we are on our way back to Reno...January, 1964.  We are loaded with wedding gifts...pictures, placemats, blankets. We decided to leave the crystal and silver at my parents' house. Then we have to find a place to live because Dick didn't have a high enough a rank to live on base. We found a nice little furnished apartment..one bedroom and bath, a kitchen and living room combined. 

Our first apartment

    Our unit was downstairs on the front. The entry door was under the stairs. The building had four units...two down and two up.  It had been built in some guy's back yard...not many building codes at that time! It was small but relatively new and seemed pretty great to us for our first home together!

This is our kitchen.

      Right across the street was a appliance repair business.  There was only one parking place at the apartment per car but we could park one of our cars in front of the business before they opened at 8:00 and after they closed at 5:00 M-Sat...Sundays they were closed so we could leave it there.  Because Dick had to leave before I did, we parked the car he drove in front of the business.

     My job at Penny's was no longer there...they weren't too happy with me leaving during the busiest time of the year.  I was having a hard time finding anything and to be frank, in order to pay rent I HAD to have a job too...Dick's military salary wasn't great and he didn't qualify for off base housing allowance.  I finally found a job with the Heart Association as a telecommunicator....one of those obnoxious people who call you up and plead for money.  It was a six weeks' gig.  We were literally living one day at a time!

     I was soooo good at what I did that, after  six weeks' was up, I was hired on by the Cancer Society to do the same thing!  And for this, I went to college!!! We were living in the newly wed bubble though so all was good!!