Interview with Lois Beville Cone 45
March 30, 1995


 was Piggly Wiggly, and then next to that was George Dell's and he specialized in what we now call gourmet groceries. And then McCrory's, and on the other corner was Phifer's State
 Bank.

0: What about your clothes and things like that? Where would you buy them?

C: Wilson's, and Geigers, and Laniers and Ms. Cherry's and Ruddy's sometimes Ruddy's.

0: So a lot of the same stores were here after you were married that were here when you were
 younger? Are those stores still around today?

C: No. none of them are around today.

0: So you had to change your shopping habits, where you went to buy things since your
 children were young?

C: Yes.

0: Is there anything else that you want to tell me about your memories of Gainesville and
 growing up here.

C: I have lived here for 82 years. People will say, do you know where Stoneridge, or do you
 know where something I have never heard of them. Gainesville is so large now, and so full of subdivisions and areas that it is just bewildering to me. The only good thing I can say is with the quadrant system, if they say it is in the North West, or the North East, or the South
 West or the South East, then you have a vague idea of the direction and the area it is in.

0: What did you have here before the quadrant system?

C: The names of streets, like Arredondo, and Pleasant, and Garden, and Mechanic, streets like
 that. So many of them over in Highlands were named. I only can remember the streets that were right around where I lived at that time I was growing up. But we all thought it was awful, you know, when the quadrant system came, because we had such pretty names of
 streets.

0: What about the telephone system? When you first telephoned you said you had to have a
 crank. Then after that what kind of a system did you have?

C: Well, you know, a telephone, and you would pick it up and you could dial on it. But it was
 just an upright. Not like they have now where you punch and all that.


0: Did there used to be party lines? Do you remember party lines?

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