Callaway Trip Day 3 - FDR

We ate once again at the "Fantabulous Breakfast Buffet" and then checked out of the Inn.

A pix set up in the lobby:


Adieu:


Next stop: FDR's Little White House in Warm Springs, GA. The place where FDR planned out the New Deal and kept up with WW2.

I'll let the picture save me a thousand words. :)



Guest House on left...Main house in middle...Servant's Quarters & garage on right.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Little White house: 3 bedroom, 2 bath. Very modest and small by today's standards. It was modest for FDR also because he was a wealthy man from Hyde Park, NY. However, it was luxurious to Depression Era Georgia where most people lived in shacks without electricity, phone or indoor plumbing.






From Front door: view of Guest House (LR, BR, Bath) on right. Servants Quarter on left (upstairs attic, 2 tiny bedrooms, 1 toilet/sink) for Cook and another married couple (Butler & Housekeeper)


Car in garage underdeath Servant's Quarters:


State of the art Kitchen for that era.



Butler's Pantry:




Middle Room of house: Living on right, Dining on Left




President FDR's Bedroom:



(yep that's original Toilet paper and there is a paper towel roll in the kitchen.)

The bathroom connects FDR's BR and Eleanor's BR.






There was a 3rd bedroom (not pictured) that was the personal assistant's :? room.

Foyer:


Closet in Foyer:


Outside deck:


Outside entrance to President's BR:


FDR died of stroke while sitting for this portrait.


The artist finished another portrait later:


Left the Little White House and drove into Warm Springs, GA and stopped at a hotel built in 1907 which just happened to have a Blue Bell Ice Cream Parlour in it!!!!


Street View:




Hotel Lobby:


Ice Cream Parlour






Sounds like a plan to me!




The whole reason FDR had a house in Warm Springs, GA to begin with was because the Meriwether Resort owner invited him to partake of the Warm Springs for his polio and paralysis. The water helped FDR, so he built a home here, and then bought the Meriwether Inn and started and later built a new Rehabilitation Home for polio victims. He expanded and improved the pools and the children were known to try to "dunk/drown the President". :) The vaccine for Polio was discovered after FDR's death. The pools fell into disrepair and then reconstructed in the 90's. The Rehabilitation Center still exists, but not for or just for polio anymore. Several of the tour guides were in wheelchairs, so they must have come from the Rehab Center.

The pools aren't filled anymore and the glass building is gone. They do fill them up once a year and allow people in. They don't have modern filtering systems and can't be used much.


A replica of what it looked like in FDR's day:


All Right! Time to go home now. Boo hoo!!
On the way home, we stopped at a side road to try out Gravity Hill.


You stop on the hill (facing down hill)....put your car in neutral....and then you start rolling back UP the hill. Here we are looking down hill as we are rolling UP the hill. Cool!

I got out and filmed the truck rolling up hill, but don't know how to post it.

We made one last stop before we went home. We went straight to the Apple Store to put Mike's baby in intensive care! Fortunately, they were able to fix it while we were there and get it back working again. Don't even ask how much it cost! Merry Christmas Mike! However, the baby now has a new shockproof/waterproof outfit to wear.

Now for those who wonder how I got my husband to look at so many flowers & butterflys for 2 days. Ha! (Callaway was the only place with vacancies out of all our choices and we had never been there before....and of course there were raptors and food ;) He says he enjoyed spending the weekend with me and even enjoyed touring the gardens..........once. ;-P....Now he is going to spend next weekend watching football. hahahahaha!


Happy 28th Anniversary to Us!!!