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Ask the folks in Macon, Georgia about Vineville Avenue, and they’re likely to tell you even today that it’s the road that goes on forever: you can get on it downtown near Mama Louise’s H & H and from there you can traverse practically the entire city, all the way to the far northwest side, without ever making a turn.

Neither the road nor the city has changed very much since that day back in December of 1969 when Linda Oakley walked into the offices of Day Realty and put down her $225 deposit to rent the 3-story Grand Tudor house at 2321 Vineville Avenue for herself and her husband Berry and their baby daughter Brittany. Linda didn’t know then, of course, that the rental would eventually come to be known to Allman Brothers fans worldwide as The Big House. And even though she rented it knowing that Duane and Gregg and the others would live there, too, she probably had no idea she was making history that day. All she knew at the beginning is that the little apartment one-bedroom apartment she and Berry were living in was way too small for the three of them—especially when sister Candy was sleeping on the sofa in the living room—and it was time to find something bigger.

Come along with us as we relive it all again through the eyes of Linda Oakley and writer Kirsten West: the early days..…..the glory days……the final days…..and today.

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