CURTISS F-BOAT "ALICE"
LAKE GENEVA, 1915

Curtiss F-Boat "Alice" in front of Lakewood Inn, Lake Geneva, 1915

Walter wrote on the back of the picture: "My room is on the corner marked X"

EARLY DAYS AFTER THE CURTISS SCHOOL, NORTH ISLAND Pops graduated from North Island, San Diego, and got his first job in Chicago flying for McDonald. His flying boat, "Alice", was located at the Serve Yacht Harbor. I am sure we only had $65 cash and rented two rooms on Central Park.     I rode with pops a few days after we were married, that was June, 1915. It was no time at all when Pops was sent to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, to carry passengers there. We rented a room from a Mrs. Burton and Pops, oh so carefully, carried passengers at $15 and $20 per each.     One day he asked if I wanted to fly over to the YMCA camp with him. There were about 100 people on the dock who wanted to shake my hand and who proclaimed what a brave woman I was to fly.      Then one day we were invited to breakfast at one of the BIG houses there. All I can remember is that a butler waited on us, something new to me. I had had lots of waiters, but never a butler. INTERVIEW WITH LOA LEES, 1976   Gallery 3