This scrapbook page traces the first days of a Navy aviation cadet's family in wartime Houston: their first night at the landmark Rice Hotel on October 2, 1943, their improvised household comforts (a homemade ironing board, proudly captioned 'our pride and joy'), and their first real home at Southmore Courts, a modest tourist court on South Main Street. Such pages illustrate the makeshift domestic life that accompanied military families following cadets to their training stations during World War II. Project: 218570