Stuart Gardens Area
Newport News, VA 23607
Stuart Gardens Apartments
Stuart Homes (Apartments)
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Stuart Gardens Area Newport News, VA 23607
Stuart Gardens Apartments |
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I personally lived on the best street in Stuart Gardens. It was 17th Street. I moved to the neighborhood when I was entering the 7th grade. I lived next door to Jimmy Edwards ('62), and next to him was Paula Sturtevant ('62). Across from me and down one house was Harry Barritt ('64) and right across from me was Becky Cash ('64). Moving further down was Zatha Franks ('62) and top it off with Mike Jeffers ('61) and his sis, Susie Jeffers ('63). On any given summer night you would see us on the curb talking and wondering what a summer night would bring. We could walk to Magruder and dance on the blacktop or when one of us got our license who would drive to Willis where the really cute guys were hanging out. I was reading from Dave (Spriggs - '64 - of VA) that the Stuart Gardens beach was gone? How did that happen? What a great place to look cute. I had my first kiss in the bleachers at the beach. I think I was listening to Fats Domino. I could go on and on. The most poignant dream I
had right after my mother died in Jan 04 was wandering around in Stuart
Gardens looking for a way home. I really loved the formative years spent on
17th Street. We were one of the first to sell and move to the boonies in my
junior year 1961. The boonies I am talking about was a place called Tuckahoe
just north of Hidenwood. No one wanted to come see me; it was way too far at
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It was so nice to see Pam Larmer (Traugott's - '62 - of VA) entry about 17th street. We did have a wonderful street and there were other kids on that block that went to NNHS too. Billy Minick ('59) lived beside Pam and Billy and Pat ('62) Stambaugh lived closer to the shopping center at the end of the street. Living beside Zatha (Franks - '62) were Dorothea ('59) and Margaret Ann Sloop and their father was minister of the Lutheran Church in the 1950's. They moved to Maryland before I left in January of 1962. Beside them were the Jeffers, and Susie ('62) was my best friend from when we were little until midway through high school. I remember her mother's 'doll cakes' - she would put a 'Vogue doll" in the center and make a cake skirt - they do it now with Barbies, but I think she 'invented' it! She would let us lick the bowl - what a sweet memory. I also remember her little brother, Scotty ('68). He was so 'tough' - when he was learning to ride a two- wheeler, he would crash into something and fall off in order to stop. I can remember my mother saying, there goes Scotty, hope he doesn't crash.
Patty Larsen and her brother
lived on the corner at the other end of the street and her mother use to
give out candied apples to her 'favorite children' in the neighborhood on
Halloween (funny how you remember when you don't get something - ha).
Seventeen kids (and more
that I didn't know) on that block and so many memories that they would
fill a million hearts. When I think back now, it really was a charmed
childhood. Sure there were heartaches and problems, but the adults seem
to protect us from unnecessary/unpleasant information (unlike the world
today) and there was an innocence to daily life.
- Paula Sturtevant
Comstock ('62) of TX - 06/11/06 |
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WOWZERS!!! Sara Jeffers was my mama's best friend. They lived at 965 - 17th Street. Those cakes of hers were legendary! http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/otherdeaths.html You might get a kick out of the picture of Scotty in his choir robes on this page: http://www.nnhs65.00freehost.com/trinity-methodist.html
It was
indeed a magical time, and we were truly blessed to be living there then.
- Carol Buckley Harty ('65)
of NC - 06/13/06 |
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Hello again Carol; Reading the newsletters makes me think of some friends I had that I have not heard of for a long time. Maybe some of the alumni might be able to bring me up to date on them. I also used to live in Stuart Gardens on 19th Place; a little street only one block long, right behind the shopping center. Ah, what memories that brings back; especially on baking days when the smell of fresh baked bread would roll back our way !! The Rosenwassers used to live on that street also, right across the street. One of the people I used to hang around with was a boy named Stanley Conn ('58). Lost touch with him after graduation and was wondering if he is still around . There was also a family with name of Siegel that lived next door to me who used to own a store out in Hampton close to the ice plant. If anyone could give me any information about any of them it would be much appreciated. - Colin Faison ('58) of VA
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Myra Rosenwasser Kahn ('58) lives in Florida; David Rosenwasser ('64) is in Missouri. I remember Stanley Conn, but do not know what became of him. The Siegels I remember well, but I've not heard from or of them in forty-eleven years. Natalie Siegel ('66) was a beautiful girl with a dynamite smile. She probably had older siblings; I can't recall.
- Carol Buckley Harty ('65) of NC
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Our House
- Graham Nash I'll light the fire You put the flowers in the vase That you bought today Staring at the fire For hours and hours While I listen to you Play your love songs All night long for me Only for me Come to me now And rest your head for just five minutes Everything is good Such a cosy room The windows are illuminated By the sunshine *dudes* and Fiery gems for you Only for you Our house is a very, very fine house With two cats in the yard Life used to be so hard Now everything is easy 'Cause of you And our la,la,la, la,la etc I'll light the fire And you place the flowers in the jar That you bought today
(This page was created on 06/14/06.)
"Our House" midi
courtesy of
http://www.geocities.com/middiz/,
at the suggestion of Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA - 06/08/03
Thanks, Dave!
"Our House" lyrics
courtesy of
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/c/crosby-stills-nash/25078.htm,
also at the suggestion of Dave Spriggs ('64) of VA - 06/08/03
Thanks
again, Dave!
House clip art courtesy of http://www.wtv-zone.com/nevr2l82/bars29.html - -6/14/06
Rose Covered Fence clip art courtesy of http://www.wtv-zone.com/nevr2l82/bars21.html - 06/14/06