Index to blog posts on Lewis Elgin Garrison

Blogs on the life of my father... Lewis Elgin Garrison

 1910- Leaving Texas- https://rootsandbloomsgarrisons.blogspot.com/2019/06/leaving-home-1910.html

 1910- Adventure on the Rails- https://rootsandbloomsgarrisons.blogspot.com/2019/06/adventure-on-rails-1910.html

 1910- The Farm at "BlackJacks" and a new family in Oklahoma -https://rootsandbloomsgarrisons.blogspot.com/2019/06/1910-farm-at-blackjacks-and-new-family.html

 1911- The Death of Lewis F. Garrison in Aline Oklahoma-https://rootsandbloomsgarrisons.blogspot.com/2019/06/lewis-fgarrison.html

1914-1920- Suffering and Suffrage-https://rootsandbloomsgarrisons.blogspot.com/2019/06/1914-1920-suffering-and-suffrage.html

1912-1923- Life on the Farm in Aline
https://rootsandbloomsgarrisons.blogspot.com/2019/06/life-on-farm-1912-1923.html

1923- Life in Enid, Oklahoma- https://rootsandbloomsgarrisons.blogspot.com/2016/02/1923-enid-oklahoma.html

1920's- Enid High School- https://rootsandbloomsgarrisons.blogspot.com/2016/02/1920s-enid-high-school.html

1926- Phillips University- Aletheia https://rootsandbloomsgarrisons.blogspot.com/2016/01/all-in-year-book-1926.html

1929- Phillips University Yearbook- https://rootsandbloomsgarrisons.blogspot.com/2016/01/all-in-year-book-1929.html

1929- Black Tuesday- the Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression https://rootsandbloomsgarrisons.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-perfect-storm-blackens-horizon.html

1933- Black Dust- the Dust Bowl in Oklahoma
https://rootsandbloomsgarrisons.blogspot.com/2016/01/black-dust-1930s-and-dust-bowl.html

Early 1930's- Black Gold and Houston- "The City the Depression Forgot" https://rootsandbloomsgarrisons.blogspot.com/2016/01/black-gold.html

Early 1930's Houston- A Bachelor's Life- https://rootsandbloomsgarrisons.blogspot.com/2016/01/1930s-houston-bachelors-life.html

Early 1930's Houston- Family living in Houston- https://rootsandbloomsgarrisons.blogspot.com/2016/01/early-1930s-family-living-in-houston.html

Late 1930's- Saint Louis, the Wood River Refinery, and Life on Delmar Blvd.
https://rootsandbloomsgarrisons.blogspot.com/2016/01/late-1930s-saint-louis-wood-river.html

Late 1930's- The girl next door- Pauline Allen
https://rootsandbloomsgarrisons.blogspot.com/2016/01/late-1930s-girl-next-door-pauline-allen.html

Late 1930's- Romance in St. Louis- The Movies https://rootsandbloomsgarrisons.blogspot.com/2016/01/late-1930s-romance-in-st-louis-movies.html

Late 1930's- Romance in St. Louis- Forest Park and Riverboats https://rootsandbloomsgarrisons.blogspot.com/2016/04/late-1930s-romance-in-st-louis-forest.html

1939- The Last Bachelor Bash https://rootsandbloomsgarrisons.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-last-bachelor-bash.html

1940- Love and Marriage https://rootsandbloomsgarrisons.blogspot.com/2016/05/1940-love-and-marriage.html

1941- The Roosevelt Hotel NYC- https://rootsandbloomsgarrisons.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-roosevelt-hotel.html

1941- Newlyweds in NY- Elmhurst and Rockefeller Center
 https://rootsandbloomsgarrisons.blogspot.com/2016/05/newlyweds-in-new-york.html

1942- Elgin and Pauline host his sister's wedding https://rootsandbloomsgarrisons.blogspot.com/2016/06/aletheia-and-fred-wed-1942.html

Life in NYC during WWII- https://rootsandbloomsgarrisons.blogspot.com/2016/06/world-war-ii-life-in-ny-during-war.html

1946- Baby Boomers- the birth of Ellen
https://rootsandbloomsgarrisons.blogspot.com/2020/04/after-war-birth-of-baby-boomers.html

1951- the move to Garden City and my birth
https://rootsandbloomsgarrisons.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-move-to-garden-city-and-my-birth-in.html


























1942- The June Trip Home -https://rootsandbloomsgarrisons.blogspot.com/2019/06/june-1942-trip-home.html

The move to Garden City and my birth in 1951

The move from the city to the suburbs was a huge trend after the war. My Aunt and Uncle were living in Garden City, on Long Island. My parents also found a lot here, on the corner of Brixton Road and Merillon Avenue - the new address was 11 Merillon Avenue. It was a perfect location- a pretty corner quarter acre lot with nice trees just two blocks from the train station, where my father could catch the Long Island Railroad into work in the city. They had plans drawn up and the new house- a shingled cape cod- was built. At first everyone lived on the main floor- two bedrooms, a bath, a kitchen and a living room. There was room upstairs and downstairs for expansion later on.

Garden City was a beautiful town, very convenient to New York City which was just a short drive or train ride away. In the meantime, Garden City offered the best that suburban life had to offer- pretty homes on lovely tree lined streets, excellent schools, and a quaint business district. It was a pleasant, safe environment for raising children.

        I was born on in June, 1951. My mother said I had a full head of black hair,  and my doctor pronounced, "It's a papoose!" 

I was baptized at the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Garden City. My godparents were my parents best friends; Rollie and Anita Bayless, and my aunt, Aletheia Garrison Hainfeld.

Baptismal Font in the Cathedral

 I shared a nursery on the first floor of our home with my sister, Ellen.

I still have the candle holder on the dresser, and my sister still has this rocking chair. Notice the play telephones of the era!

Ellen and I posing on our parents' bed

         

The first rose in the garden my father was just starting...

       

First Christmas- December 1951

First Birthday

I was off to a great start!

After the War- The birth of Baby Boomers!

The 1940's brought new life to the families in New York.

Pauline and Gary had a daughter, Ellen, born in December 1946.

The two couples now began a new phase of their lives as parents.

Aletheia and Fred had two children; Linda born in May, 1844, and Jim born in October, 1945.The two couples now began a new phase of their lives as parents.

With peace came prosperity. These post war Christmas pictures show a change from the austerity of the war time Christmas tree!