Miami, OK
Joplin, MO
503 E Street Southeast, Miami, OK. This is the first location I remember from the early 1950's. This house is a new one that replaced the original frame house sometime in the 1970's.
531 E Street Southeast, Miami, OK. An original frame style house still standing a few doors away from the first house I remember. This is similar to the house I remember at 503 E Street Southeast.
Map of Miami, OK
(Red star denotes the Meier home)
Springfield, MO
Catalpa St, Springfield, MO, the Meier home in 1957. This was where my family lived while I was in the first grade. The house is gone now.
Portland Elementary, Springfield, MO, first grade for Dave.
Republic, MO
419 Eagan, "Wormyville" development, named for "Wormy" Eagan, the developer. Occupied for many years by an amateur radio operator, Don Hendricks, now deceased. The house was blue originally.
Moon house, Republic MO, the Meier home for a short time. It had no bathtub drain - the water just went out into the yard. It is gone now.
Dave: Republic high school
(The elementary and junior high are changed or gone, respectively)
Republic Community Center and library in the 60's, previously a dairy barn.
Sparkman house, Republic, MO, the Meier home in the early 60's. This house had a full basement and two pine paneled rooms upstairs where my brother Rex and I lived. My half of upstairs had the big dormer. There was a double garage with a floored attic, a smal barn, a root cellar and a large chicken house. We kept a horse here (Coaly) for a year.
White Oak St., Republic, MO, the Meier home (around 1965). Joe Hill, who introduced me to amateur radio, lived on the corner of this street.
1966-1973
Whitehaven, TN
Cissy's home from birth-1973. Last noted, a "psychic" was advertising new-age seminars from here.
4217 Cheryl Drive, Memphis, TN, lived from 1966-1973. This is where I lived when I became a licensed amateur radio operator. I strung wires in the trees and installed verticals and later beam antennas. The fence was not there then. I operated out of the garage initially, then moved into a pine paneled room inside the house. Later I used an 8X16 portable building out back as my bedroom and radio shack
(Cissy: Grahamwood Elementary/Treadwell High School)
Hillcrest High School, Graceland Drive, Memphis. I transfered here halfway through my freshman year. It was quite a shock coming from Republic High School - the class at Hillcrest had more people in it than the whole high school in Missouri. I graduated in 1969. I learned photography here and helped with the yearbook.
Dave and Cissy: Memphis State University now University of Memphis
Whitehaven, TN
2173 Peggy Jo, Apt 6, Memphis, Our first place after marriage, in 1973, for one year. Rent was $150 per month. It was only a block away from my parent's house. No place for antennas, but I was able to remote control my station at my parent's using a microwave link.
2373 Pecan Circle, Memphis. 6 months in 1974. We lived in the west half of the duplex. This was only a block from where I worked. We vacated when we bought a house.
WMPS transmitter site, Benjestown Road, north Memphis, worked there as transmitter engineer for AM FM station in 1973. Back then the building had a classic 1930's art deco facade with metallc curves and glass block wondows. Now an automated, unattended, prison-like structure.
1027 E Brooks Rd, Memphis, "Russ Hellen's CB Center", worked off and on from 1968 until the mid 70's. I obtained much electronic technical experience here, working on CB radios, monitor radios and other equipment. Now defunct and vacant.
2979 Sandbrook, Memphis, Mahaffey Communications, worked there for a year or so in '73-'74 as a technician installing and repairing mobile telephones, commercial radios and pagers.
Memphis, TN
(Oakhaven)
3460 Meier Dr., Memphis, 1974 - 1980. Our first house cost $28,950 and was 1100 square feet. The street name Meier was pure coincidence. I had two towers here, one with a 10 foor dish at 45 feet.
DIPEC Bldg 210, Memphis, worked from 1974 - 1994. The entire Defense Depot Memphis has now shut down and the assets transferred to the city of Memphis.
Oakville Health Care Center, Cissy's workplace from 1975-1983. The facility has since closed.
1981-1994
Memphis, TN
(Raleigh)
3205 Covington Pike, Memphis, 1980 - 1994. This house cosr $70,000 and was 2150 square feet. My radio room was the large "bonus" room on the second story. I had several towers there, the highest at 50 feet. I had a 14 foot dish for moonbounce communications.
Personalized brick at base of the Memphis Pyramid, gift from Cissy's sister Janet and her husband Larry. One of some 30,000. (Yes, we know where to find it).
1995-Present
New Kent, VA
6560 Marl Springs Drive, New Kent, VA, 1994 to present