They had electricity, but they did not have indoor plumbing or gas. They had a wood stove and a coal heater. They had a well on the back porch for drawing their water. They had hogs and chickens in the back yard. Alma is from Gwinnett County and attended Chamblee High School.
Berlin is from Dallas, Georgia.
Alma worked at Montags, a paper company located downtown where the Omni Hotel is currently located. Berlin worked at the Murray Shell Company and then King Plow. Many existing residents remember Louise Patterson, who was raised most of her life in the first house built on Antone Street. Louise remembers, For many years there were almost no homes on Berkeley Avenue or Verner Street. Clyde and M.P. Black and family lived three doors down from us.