Robert Dewey Bunn was educated in the Asheville Schools, he worked first as a Real Estate salesman, then in the 30's during the depression he worked for Leo Finkelstein in his Pawn Shop on Pack Square. Finally he became a dealer in antiques, operating his own store at 40 Biltmore Ave. in downtown Asheville.
One of his boyhood chums was Thomas Wolfe who later became Asheville's most famous writer. Their homes were only a short distance apart, they were nearly the same age, and went all through school together before Tom went on to University A first hand account of some of their experiences together was published by Ralph Roberts in The Original Carolina Senior Citizen, Vol. 2, Number 20.
On three occasions he used his contracting talents in the service of the movie industry when companies came to Asheville for the location sites of motion pictures. Through these jobs he met Susan Hayward, who starred in Tap Roots, the stars of Conquest of Canaan, Thomas Meighan, Doris Kenyon and Diana Alien; and Grace Kelley and Louis Jourdain who starred in The Swan. For one picture he was delegated the job of rounding up 27 Victorian horse-drawn carriages, in the course of which he had to travel for about two weeks through Georgia and South Carolina, and even on up to Virginia, looking for ones that were still in good enough condition to be used. He ended up with only sixteen. His brother who was in the horse-breeding business was able to supply a good number of the needed horses.
About five years after Dianna Alien was in town, he recalled finding a picture of her rolled up and hidden back on a shelf in his mother's pantry. When he asked his mother about it she admitted that when it had come about five years earlier, she had hidden it without giving it to him, on the grounds that she was afraid he might take off and move out to Hollywood.
He was a member of the First Baptist Church, a 32nd Degree Mason, member of the National Society, Sons of the Revolution, and of the Old Buncombe County Genealogical Society. In 1992, at the age of 92 years, he published a small book of memoirs, but which was mainly about his father's and mother's ancestry, entitled The Life and Ancestry of Robert Dewey Bunn of Asheville, NC.
One of his boyhood chums was Thomas Wolfe who later became Asheville's most famous writer. Their homes were only a short distance apart, they were nearly the same age, and went all through school together before Tom went on to University A first hand account of some of their experiences together was published by Ralph Roberts in The Original Carolina Senior Citizen, Vol. 2, Number 20.
On three occasions he used his contracting talents in the service of the movie industry when companies came to Asheville for the location sites of motion pictures. Through these jobs he met Susan Hayward, who starred in Tap Roots, the stars of Conquest of Canaan, Thomas Meighan, Doris Kenyon and Diana Alien; and Grace Kelley and Louis Jourdain who starred in The Swan. For one picture he was delegated the job of rounding up 27 Victorian horse-drawn carriages, in the course of which he had to travel for about two weeks through Georgia and South Carolina, and even on up to Virginia, looking for ones that were still in good enough condition to be used. He ended up with only sixteen. His brother who was in the horse-breeding business was able to supply a good number of the needed horses.
About five years after Dianna Alien was in town, he recalled finding a picture of her rolled up and hidden back on a shelf in his mother's pantry. When he asked his mother about it she admitted that when it had come about five years earlier, she had hidden it without giving it to him, on the grounds that she was afraid he might take off and move out to Hollywood.
He was a member of the First Baptist Church, a 32nd Degree Mason, member of the National Society, Sons of the Revolution, and of the Old Buncombe County Genealogical Society. In 1992, at the age of 92 years, he published a small book of memoirs, but which was mainly about his father's and mother's ancestry, entitled The Life and Ancestry of Robert Dewey Bunn of Asheville, NC.
Robert Dewey Bunn was educated in the Asheville Schools, he worked first as a Real Estate salesman, then in the 30's during the depression he worked for Leo Finkelstein in his Pawn Shop on Pack Square. Finally he became a dealer in antiques, operating his own store at 40 Biltmore Ave. in downtown Asheville.
One of his boyhood chums was Thomas Wolfe who later became Asheville's most famous writer. Their homes were only a short distance apart, they were nearly the same age, and went all through school together before Tom went on to University A first hand account of some of their experiences together was published by Ralph Roberts in The Original Carolina Senior Citizen, Vol. 2, Number 20.
On three occasions he used his contracting talents in the service of the movie industry when companies came to Asheville for the location sites of motion pictures. Through these jobs he met Susan Hayward, who starred in Tap Roots, the stars of Conquest of Canaan, Thomas Meighan, Doris Kenyon and Diana Alien; and Grace Kelley and Louis Jourdain who starred in The Swan. For one picture he was delegated the job of rounding up 27 Victorian horse-drawn carriages, in the course of which he had to travel for about two weeks through Georgia and South Carolina, and even on up to Virginia, looking for ones that were still in good enough condition to be used. He ended up with only sixteen. His brother who was in the horse-breeding business was able to supply a good number of the needed horses.
About five years after Dianna Alien was in town, he recalled finding a picture of her rolled up and hidden back on a shelf in his mother's pantry. When he asked his mother about it she admitted that when it had come about five years earlier, she had hidden it without giving it to him, on the grounds that she was afraid he might take off and move out to Hollywood.
He was a member of the First Baptist Church, a 32nd Degree Mason, member of the National Society, Sons of the Revolution, and of the Old Buncombe County Genealogical Society. In 1992, at the age of 92 years, he published a small book of memoirs, but which was mainly about his father's and mother's ancestry, entitled The Life and Ancestry of Robert Dewey Bunn of Asheville, NC.
One of his boyhood chums was Thomas Wolfe who later became Asheville's most famous writer. Their homes were only a short distance apart, they were nearly the same age, and went all through school together before Tom went on to University A first hand account of some of their experiences together was published by Ralph Roberts in The Original Carolina Senior Citizen, Vol. 2, Number 20.
On three occasions he used his contracting talents in the service of the movie industry when companies came to Asheville for the location sites of motion pictures. Through these jobs he met Susan Hayward, who starred in Tap Roots, the stars of Conquest of Canaan, Thomas Meighan, Doris Kenyon and Diana Alien; and Grace Kelley and Louis Jourdain who starred in The Swan. For one picture he was delegated the job of rounding up 27 Victorian horse-drawn carriages, in the course of which he had to travel for about two weeks through Georgia and South Carolina, and even on up to Virginia, looking for ones that were still in good enough condition to be used. He ended up with only sixteen. His brother who was in the horse-breeding business was able to supply a good number of the needed horses.
About five years after Dianna Alien was in town, he recalled finding a picture of her rolled up and hidden back on a shelf in his mother's pantry. When he asked his mother about it she admitted that when it had come about five years earlier, she had hidden it without giving it to him, on the grounds that she was afraid he might take off and move out to Hollywood.
He was a member of the First Baptist Church, a 32nd Degree Mason, member of the National Society, Sons of the Revolution, and of the Old Buncombe County Genealogical Society. In 1992, at the age of 92 years, he published a small book of memoirs, but which was mainly about his father's and mother's ancestry, entitled The Life and Ancestry of Robert Dewey Bunn of Asheville, NC.
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