This picture of Linda T. Weller is about a year after her employment with Sears on Ponce (circa 1940). She was a clerk/typist at Sears and is the aunt whom Jeannie (of South Side Atlanta Memories) often writes about in her blog.
Special Thanks to Jeannie for sharing her “Ponce memories” with us.
Special Thanks to Jeannie for sharing her “Ponce memories” with us.
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I can't tell you how great it is to see Linda's pic on ISIOP! She was so crazy ahead of her time; two Decatur stories. First one -totally unrelated- I wanted to make sure you saw Charles Phoenix's Slide of the Week http://www.charlesphoenix.com/dinner-is-served-decatur-georgia-1964/
Second: One of many 'Linda' stories: She and her family lived for most of the 1940s on Oak Lane in Decatur. This was an idyllic little spot off the car line with great neighbors and convienent to everything. In 1949 Ga Power decomissioned the streetcars. Linda, who had growing up on Rocky Ford Road in Kirkwood using the streetcars, had a huge fondness for the car line, found out that the cars could be purchased. She believed that an old trolley would make a great playhouse and decided to do just that, buy a car and set it under the trees beside their home and make a play house for her younger sister and the neighbor children. Well, her grown up neighbors did NOT share the love, and she got so mad that she sold the Oak Lane house and bought a 40 acre farm out on Honey Creek in Rockdale County. With no electricity or running water. But you bet those people in Decatur weren't telling her what to do out there! Lovin' Ponce- ms ssam.
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