Inside 505 Rigsby in the mid-1950′s

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1. John Whipple Sr.
   September 2nd, 2011 06:48
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   I took this picture with my new Argus C4 camera in my Mother’s newly completed kitchen at 505 Rigsby Avenue. Mother had hand painted a sign across the filler panel above the new cabinetry that read;

   “No matter where I serve my guests they seem to like my kitchen best.”

   I am still amazed at how wonderfully well this remodeling was done with my Mother and Father’s visionary capabilities. There was a love in that house that showed up in the Whipple Family having lived there that just does not come in new houses!

2. Laura H. Smith
   September 7th, 2011 23:49
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   John, how fun! Got a jolt when I saw U. Ratmond & A. Peggy. Is that Jill on the left & you on the right? Took me back a few years, to some fun times.

   Remember when Jill got to paint Penn. Dutch designs on the cabinet doors, in the kitchen? She did such a great job. I was super impressed.

3. John Whipple Sr.
   September 8th, 2011 11:03
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   Our times were centered at 243 Oak Knoll in Woodlawn Hills and “How great they were.”

   This picture was taken at our new house in Highland Park which was really my Dad’s home where he grew up which he bought after his mother that lived there died.

   The one on the left is not Jill, it is my wife Ann. We rented the a room there while I started a printing shop in the back.

   Jill rented my Aunt Inez Ethridge (Peggy’s Sister’s}upstairs Apartment behind her house at 646 Kayton, which was two blocks up and one block over. She was all grown up and going to Trinity University and had a boyfriend by the name of Wayne Newton.