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Above Nelva photos attribution:
Ginger Brook @deepfriedkudzu.com
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Used with permission."
There is little or no information about many of our old places. The Meridian Star is provides very little help. I had to dig to pick up these diary entries from a dead lady.
This diary is now the property of Ohio State University.
A LIFE REVEALED:
This diary is now the property of Ohio State University.
A LIFE REVEALED:
THE DIARY OF GLADYS BOLON COOPER
(1939-1989) 345 pages. This is from Volume IV
JANUARY 1,1967 to DECEMBER 31,1975
Page 14
THURSDAY, MARCH 23,1967 Left motel (after breakfast there) at ten 'till seven. Weather like summer, redbuds in bloom. Ate lunch roadside table. I drove 55 miles. Country not very interesting. Drove to Meridan, Mississippi. Stayed at Nelva Hotel, where we stayed last November. $8.50 after Charles told her what AAA listed. She had charged us $9.00. Had dinner at Nelva Restaurant. $1.60.
Page 77
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1968 Beautiful day. We had breakfast at Ackleys. Margaret packed us a lunch. Left at ten of eight. Got mixed up and drove about 10 miles out of our way. Bought rolls at Birmingham and ate lunch in the parking lot there. I drove 43 miles. Got to Meridian. Motel, Nelva at 4:30. $9.00 and tax. Had been warm driving but heater in motel felt good. Had a good chicken dinner at the Nelva Restaurant! $1.50. $2.36 total.
Page 14
THURSDAY, MARCH 23,1967 Left motel (after breakfast there) at ten 'till seven. Weather like summer, redbuds in bloom. Ate lunch roadside table. I drove 55 miles. Country not very interesting. Drove to Meridan, Mississippi. Stayed at Nelva Hotel, where we stayed last November. $8.50 after Charles told her what AAA listed. She had charged us $9.00. Had dinner at Nelva Restaurant. $1.60.
Page 77
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1968 Beautiful day. We had breakfast at Ackleys. Margaret packed us a lunch. Left at ten of eight. Got mixed up and drove about 10 miles out of our way. Bought rolls at Birmingham and ate lunch in the parking lot there. I drove 43 miles. Got to Meridian. Motel, Nelva at 4:30. $9.00 and tax. Had been warm driving but heater in motel felt good. Had a good chicken dinner at the Nelva Restaurant! $1.50. $2.36 total.
4 comments:
This was my great grandfather's Lauren Lockridge Majure. He named it the Nelva after his 2 daughters, Nelda and Virginia. NELVA COURTS
My dad Jimmy Lee trained horses for Mr.Majures way back when I was very young..
My mother's family lived in Shreveport when I was growing up in the 1960s and 1970s. Meridian was half way and we stayed there when we traveled in December, not in the summer as the daylight let us get as far as Jackson. I remember staying at the Nelva Court and we thought it was great. But then we stayed the next year and they had lost the Quality Courts membership and we saw why, it had deteriorated. So we dropped the Nelva and usually stayed at the Ramada Inn or the Travel Inn. I always liked the stop in Meridian, it was exciting for a young kid and we always explored for a new restaurant for dinner. Amazing how easily you can be entertained when u are young.
Jerry, Do you remember where Nelva Courts was located? Was it east of Meridian on US 80?
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