Our Great Honeymoon - May 30, to June 6, 1941

Some of our dear friends had removed most of the gasoline from our 1941 green Plymouth Club Coupe. I was able to get my gas tank filled up after our reception. I knew it would be almost empty because of what people had done at other weddings.

Then Kitty, my beautiful Bride and me drove to New York City for one night. The next day, we drove 60 miles to Lake George for the week.

We rented a very nice tourist cabin, but we had a loud group in a cabin next to us. Kitty was scared and I wasn’t too happy. It wasn’t a nice place to rest. People could possibly rob you. You think twice. We decided to leave the next day. The manager was very nice. He was just starting the season. He said “I feel awful bad, but I’ll give you a refund of $7-8 change for the night.” He didn’t charge us for the rest of the week either.

We returned to New York City where we attended the Monte Prose Dance Carnival at Madison Square Garden with 3 very good name bands, Harry James, Charlie Barnett, Larry Clinton. I believe those were the names.

Here is a picture of a souvenir heart I purchased for a dollar. They had a machine where they stitched our names. A dollar was a lot of money, but I wanted to have something to remember the whole dance carnival. To hear 3 name bands was very special. We were lucky to hear one name band in our home town of DC. There were probably a few thousand people in the Garden. There was plenty of room for everyone to dance.

We stayed at the Times Square Hotel for $3.00 a night. This was near the end of the Great Depression.

We enjoyed dancing at the 2 hotels where we stayed at. The Times Square Hotel plus The New Yorker had free dancing in those years.

I remember that I had to go to the District building to get a marriage license for $2.00.

I had borrowed $200 for the great honeymoon. Then on small payments I was able to repay it. Mom had helped very much as Kitty had 2 paychecks for our glorious Honeymoon.