That's good-looking stuff. Colors are a little wild for my taste. Some of those rooms, with the bitsiest adjustments, are nearly replicated now. And we're better for it.
They had a house in Dallas and kept an apartment or townhouse in Dallas, too. I lived with them for nearly ten years. I helped pay rent and utilities, and in exchange lived in lovely interiors and ate Reagan's exquisite food. He loved to cook, too. They'd come and go, spending months away at a time.
I'm living partially on Reagan's mama's money. She was married to Sr, an oilman who went bust along with Republic National Bank. When she divorced him, she had a settlement that netted her $12,000 a month. In the '50s.
Betty Shortle was at that party. She was in her 70s and wearing a girdle under her red cocktail dress. She went into the bathroom and stumbled into the bathtub, then couldn't get out. Cross my heart, it's true.
They bedded her down in the guest room, and she had to leave there in the morning in a red cocktail dress.
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That's good-looking stuff. Colors are a little wild for my taste. Some of those rooms, with the bitsiest adjustments, are nearly replicated now. And we're better for it.
This one is very much the sort of room my brother's partner might have done in the '60s
He did the lobby of the Baker Hotel in downtown Dallas around that era.
He wouldn't have used all that godawful green, though.
They had a house in Dallas and kept an apartment or townhouse in Dallas, too. I lived with them for nearly ten years. I helped pay rent and utilities, and in exchange lived in lovely interiors and ate Reagan's exquisite food. He loved to cook, too. They'd come and go, spending months away at a time.
Reagan J. Caraway, Jr. brief bio.
I left his scrapbooks with an antique dealer in Natchez when I moved away.
Can't find anything online for the Baker.
I'm living partially on Reagan's mama's money. She was married to Sr, an oilman who went bust along with Republic National Bank. When she divorced him, she had a settlement that netted her $12,000 a month. In the '50s.
Had a house in Natchez.
I got really drunk at a 4th of July party at that house, and punched a dentist who was groping me. The type who showed you his Mensa card.
Betty Shortle was at that party. She was in her 70s and wearing a girdle under her red cocktail dress. She went into the bathroom and stumbled into the bathtub, then couldn't get out. Cross my heart, it's true.
They bedded her down in the guest room, and she had to leave there in the morning in a red cocktail dress.
Good times. Good times. Best with a taxi, though.
I never have any fun anymore.
Not a television set in sight.
Actually, in 1965, those places would have been furnished by the parents of the baby boomers (the oldest of whom were only 19 in 1965).
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