Thursday's QuestionI like to know things about people. Like when and where you were born. Care to share with us today??
I was born in a very little town in Kansas in 1951. The name of the town was Nashville. The name originated in 1885 because some of the settlers came from Nashville, Tennessee. It became a thriving community after the Atchinson, Topeka, & Santa Fe railroad came through. Big business at that time was selling cattle and wild horses. A small hospital was built in 1926 by Dr. J.B. Morton. Several years later the practice was taken over by Dr. T. L. Waylan and his wife, Francis, a registered nurse. He is the doctor who delivered me and all my siblings, but one. He practiced in Nashville until his retirement in 1981. The hospital closed and fell into disrepair. We visited it a few years back and I took pictures but I cannot find them at the moment. The hospital looked like a long house. The doctor and his family lived in the front part of it. My brother and sister were the first twins born there.
Now tell me where and when you were born!!
I was born on December 30th, 1949 - in Cincinnati Ohio. Can't remember the hospital - or much more about it. I do remember tho - 11 years later, staying with my Grandmother because my youngest brother was born on December 28th. I remember I got an etch a sketch too....
ReplyDeleteLinda in VA
Good memories Linda. I have a brother who was born on December 31!
DeletePresent and accounted for. 12/31/1946 6:14 pm Nashville, Ks
DeleteYep, that is the same place I was born. Small world!!
DeleteI was born in Detroit, Michigan at Mt Carmel Hospital. I lived in the same house until I was 19 years old. It was a great place to grow up and I still keep in touch with a lot of the people who lived on the same block I did. My oldest friend moved across the street from us when we were both 7 years old and we are still friends to this day, 52 years later! Although it's not a good area anymore, I've been back to see the old house a few times. Once it was even boarded up!
ReplyDeleteIt is good to have our memories. I've been back to visit my childhood home and it doesn't exist any longer. But we visited my grandma's house. I thought it was huge when I was little. Not very big at all.
DeleteGrace Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio. My father was delivered by a midwife in Coalmont, Pennsylvania. When it came time for him to retire, Mom tracked down the midwife, and her letter recalling his birth date, more or less, became his birth certificate.
ReplyDeleteHow interesting! Midwives were very popular at one time!
DeleteBorn in Dallas in May 1968 at the Methodist hospital. One of the oldest hospitals in Dallas built in 1927. At night you can see it from downtown because it has a huge white cross on top and they have a blue light on it.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a great hospital!
DeleteSounds like a great place with lots of history where you were born, Paula :) I was born in Sharon Pennsylvania in the local hospital, as were my 2 older siblings :)
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It was Betty. We lived in another little town but mom went to this doctor so that is where we went to be born.
DeleteI was born about a mile from where I am now. :-) Small rural town, Northern Maine.
ReplyDeleteThat's pretty cool that you still live close!
DeleteI was born on 26th June 1959 in Forest Gate Maternity Hospital (East London UK) which was just over a mile from where I live now. It was also my Dad's birthday so I was a very nice present! The hopital closed in the 1970s but the building still exists - it was redeveloped as flats and additional housing was built on the grounds.
ReplyDeleteThey did that same thing to a hospital here in my town. But now it, too, is closed! Thanks for sharing Wendy!
DeleteI was born in 1951 also. I was born in a Hospital in Detroit Lakes Minnesota about 33 miles from where we live now. My husband was born at the same hospital in 1950. :)
ReplyDeleteMinnesota, huh? So you and Goodnight Gram on in the same state. I've been to Minnesota once or twice. Was very, very cold. I, too, was born in 1951!
DeleteI was born in Mt. Clemens MI at Mt. Clemens General Hospital. I delivered my daughter at the same hospital. When my brother came to see me he said "Hey, this is the same room Mom was in when she had you". I didn't really believe him. When my Pops came to see me, he said "This is the same room Mum was in when you were born. I brought your brothers up to this window and Mum held you up so they could see you."
ReplyDeleteWOW! What a great story. Isn't the world small sometimes. And the coincidences so special.
DeleteSanta Maria, CA. I don't know the hospital's name. But it's a funny story, anyway.
ReplyDeleteMy mother is/was a labor and delivery nurse. There were two hospitals in town. She worked at the other one. (When she had my brother, she had him in the same hospital in which she worked.)
I do not remember Santa Maria. We moved a couple months after this. My father had been sent to Vietnam (they were living there because he was based out of Vandenberg AFB), so my mother moved back to where her parents and his parents lived. (When my father returned from Vietnam, he had finished his enlistment, so we stayed in SoCal.)
I've heard SoCal is so pretty! My best friend is a labor/delivery nurse. Never an area of nursing I cared for!
DeleteHi Paula - being the first I was born in hospital in the local town of Woking - now it's part of Greater London ... but at that stage was a rural area. My brothers ended up being born at home ... interesting stories from everyone .. cheers Hilary
ReplyDeleteAh, yes, London. I have never made it to England. Would be a fascinating visit I am sure. Once when Richard and I were on a cruise we shared our dining table with a lovely couple from England. Have a great weekend.
DeleteArmistice Day, 1946, Saratoga General Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. I only lived there until I was two years old, but my aunt owned the home until the 1980's. I attended college in Detroit and worked for the City for ten years, but never again lived within its boundaries.
ReplyDeleteI have never been to Detroit. I am wondering if I have ever been in Michigan even. I'll have to check into some of our former trips to see if we made it there. I have other blogging friends in Michigan.
DeleteI was born at 5:19 a.m. on a Thursday morning, exact same time and day of the week as my brother born 16 months earlier. My dad took one of his ties and painted "It's a girl" on it and then went to work at the high school where he taught.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great story. What town were you born in?
DeleteNew York City. About as far from a small town as you can get. 😊
ReplyDeleteYes, that it. New York City would make even a bigger town seem small. I have never been. But I would love to visit sometime.
DeleteI had to consult my Baby Book for this one!
ReplyDeleteMarch 17, 1950 at 8:35AM ... Room 439, St. Barnabus Hospital in Minneapolis. I've not much more info, except due to their differing blood types and the possibility of my having to have a transfusion immediately after birth, I was born by caesarian(sp?) section. It's rumored, because the doc was Irish, he picked my birthdate! :)
After 5 days mother and I were released. I've an old hand-written receipt #710 from St. Barnabas showing daddy paid our entire bill for the grand sum of $70.15!
Love that Irish birthday! Did you need that blood transfusion?? That is amazing how little it cost to have a baby in 1950. But it was probably expensive at that time.
DeleteNope, thank God. I had B-negative. I don't totally understand the conflicting blood types/Rh factor, but my former in-laws had it. They were warned not to have more than one child. Sure enough, my ex was fine but their daughter came along a couple years later, severely retarded.
DeleteI don't totally understand that blood stuff with babies either. I'm glad you were alright!!
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