January 18, 1947
#2
Dear Dad,
We still haven’t found a job or anything and may not stay here but I’ll let you know when we get an address for you to write to.
Love, Herb
Mr. James A. Parker
482 Main St.
Groveland, Mass.
And we're back with more depressing news from Herb's job search.
I detailed the research on the elder Parker in the previous post on Herb's first desperate message to his dad, and Groveland, MA in other posts, so let's focus on what became of Herb Parker, who migrated to Florida after the second World War.
As of this writing, Florida has about a 9.9% unemployment rate, so there is a bit of comfort knowing that jobs were about as scarce in 1947 as they are today. We continue the saga of Herb, the used car salesman, who now may not stay in Daytona Beach. The only evidence he may have stayed is from a 1976 Daytona Beach News-Journal article that lists a Herb Parker (perhaps a Junior?) as part of the city's landscape department and another article commemorating a heroic rescue of a four-year old girl in 1986 from a swimming pool. I'd like to think that the elder Herb Parker prospered alongside the World's Most Famous Beach and had a son who also stayed. A quick search of the Volusia County Property Appraiser's website corroborates this theory as two deeds are recorded for a Herbert Parker (Jr.) in Daytona Beach and a Herbert Parker III in South Daytona. I guess he finally got an address for Dad to send letters.
And we're back with more depressing news from Herb's job search.
I detailed the research on the elder Parker in the previous post on Herb's first desperate message to his dad, and Groveland, MA in other posts, so let's focus on what became of Herb Parker, who migrated to Florida after the second World War.
As of this writing, Florida has about a 9.9% unemployment rate, so there is a bit of comfort knowing that jobs were about as scarce in 1947 as they are today. We continue the saga of Herb, the used car salesman, who now may not stay in Daytona Beach. The only evidence he may have stayed is from a 1976 Daytona Beach News-Journal article that lists a Herb Parker (perhaps a Junior?) as part of the city's landscape department and another article commemorating a heroic rescue of a four-year old girl in 1986 from a swimming pool. I'd like to think that the elder Herb Parker prospered alongside the World's Most Famous Beach and had a son who also stayed. A quick search of the Volusia County Property Appraiser's website corroborates this theory as two deeds are recorded for a Herbert Parker (Jr.) in Daytona Beach and a Herbert Parker III in South Daytona. I guess he finally got an address for Dad to send letters.
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