Interview with Lois Beville Cone 38
March 30, 1995



C: Well, I think everyone was more aware of not doing things. I remember in the home we built
 on 9th Street, we had a fireplace in the living room, and then a step down into the hall, and we hung a curtain there so that the heat from the fireplace would stay up in the living room and that is where we would gather. We had a circulating oil heater, but we used it sparingly
 not knowing what the weather might be later on and you would need the heat.
0: You were talking about the airplane watch. Did you participate in that did you take a turn
 in that?

C: Yes.

0: Where did you go to watch for planes?

C: It was out in what is now Highlands, then it was Stengel Field. It was called Stengel Field, as
 it was an airplane field, I believe. It is all built up now, you know, homes and subdivisions.
 Out off of 16th Avenue and Waldo Road, in that area.

0: Do you have any other special memories of Gainesville that you would like to share with us?

C: I enjoyed Gainesville more when you could go to the grocery store, and you would see
 friends, and you would stop and chat. Now you go, and occasionally you might see someone you know. And you know, that, to me, is typical of my church. There are so many members that I really do not know in our church. I wish Gainesville were like it used to be, small and
 friendly, and neighborly.

0: Where you would know everybody?

C: Yes.

o: You reared your children in the '3 0's then?

C: '30s and '40's.

0: What activities were they involved in and how did you plan them?

C: Well, when we moved on 9th Street, I had enrolled Susan in P.K. Yonge, and she went from
 Kindergarten and graduated from P.K. Yonge. Celia was enrolled in P.K. Yonge, and she went from Kindergarten to fourth grade, and then she moved to Finley. My oldest son was enrolled at P.K., but he only went there two years. When we moved on the Boulevard, he went to Kirby Smith. Tommy, my youngest son, went to Kirby Smith, because we lived over in the North East area. And Fred, Celia and Tommy all graduated from G.H. S., but Susan
 went all the way through P.K.

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