Our first home (that we owned that is). We moved to 1071 Country Lane in NE Atlanta after Jim went to work as an Industrial Enginner for Cluett Peabody (Arrow shirts) in East Point, GA.This small 3 bedroom house was at the end of a street with woods behind us and a creek. This photo was taken our first winter in 1960. I was working at the Communicable Disease Center nearby but Jim had to drive a long distance across Atlanta to work - and there were no expressways. We enjoyed living here at the bottom of a hill. We had a bad ice storm that winter and our gas furnace didn't work without electricity. I don't remember how we kept warm while the power was off. The house had a basement where we could store things.
What I remember most about this house was the clothes line that was connected on a trolley from the back porch to a tree in the woods. I could stand on the back porch, pin the laundry to the clothes line and pull the line out to the open area over the creek for it to dry. That was so neat. We fenced in the back yard so the boys wouldn't fall down the steep hill. Look close and you can see Ronnie swinging. Ronnie started to kindergarten at Peachtree Baptist church while we were living here. Jim got promoted by Arrow and they sent us to Bremen, GA (about 60 miles west of Atlanta). We sold this house and bought a home in Bremen.
A few years ago when my nephew was looking for a home in this area, he found out that the little houses in this area were very sought after and you had to pay around $150,000 for them. We paid $11,250 for this house in 1960.
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