Michael, Anthony, "Moe", and Mo
The Marietta
Museum of History today had a panel discussion on Public Housing in Marietta in
the 1940s. There were four chairs placed
to face the hordes of people who would come to listen.
I was asked
to give my view of living in the Clay Homes during that period. Which would probably be limited because we
moved the summer after I finished the first grade.
In the lobby
before it started was my first cousins Anthony Rollins and Susie Petty
Kirkendall, and her husband Ronnie Kirkendall.
Anthony said he probably would know more than anybody there about the
Clay Homes because as a kid he lived in four different apartments. I suggested he take my place on the
panel. He was willing. I looked up Christa, the one running the show
and told her that Anthony and I were trading places. She said why didn't she just to get another
chair and we would together.
As it worked
out, the narrator Michael Thompson, Anthony, and I were the only panel did not
show up. The other two or three were
no-shows. Michael did most the talking,
breaking down the community at the times and how they handled it all. I'm glad he was there.
They had an
assortment of cookies and water on a table for refreshments. Afterwards, I was talking to an ex-resident
of the Clay Homes, by the refreshment table, and while she was talking I reach
down and swooped up two cookies and started eating one. "My pay" I said.
Ronnie Kirkendall, and my two first cousins Susie Petty Kirkendall, and Anthony Rollins
Anthony and Laura, high schoolmates
Clifford Clayton, about 2 or 3 years younger, lived two doors door from us in the Clay Homes
L to R: Marietta Journal photographer and reporter (I think), Jim Morris, and Phillip Goldstein's son (I think)
Jane Glover, of Glover Machinery and Phillip Goldstein
This guy asked a lot of intelligent questions for his age.. After it was over I asked him who he was and howcome he knew so much about Marietta. He said he was working on his thesis.
Michael Thomas
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