Category Family

Happy Heavenly Mother’s Day

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My mom, Mary, was three years old in 1919 when this picture was taken in New York City. She was a proud and pretty Slovakian girl.

The second was during a Christmas vacation out West in 1960. The third was taken on Jensen Beach in late 1976, just before I deployed to Japan to serve aboard the USS Midway (CV-41).

She was an amazing person. I think about her all the time. Happy Heavenly Mother’s Day. I love you!

1919.
1960.
1976.

Happy Mother’s Day to all.

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Happy SUNday! – 51 and counting.

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At the Jacksonville Chart House last night.
Carol
Chris

Carol and I celebrated our 51st wedding anniversary on Saturday.

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Happy Memories – 1963

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‘Super Toy’ Levittown (NY) Little League Central AAA team.
My dad Paul (tall guy manager), his brother Billy (far left coach), my cousin Larry (1st row far left), and me right behind Larry in the 2nd row.
Posted in memory of my dad on the 111th anniversary of his birth in 1914.

It was so much fun having my cousin and his dad be on the same team as my dad and me.

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A couple of Marys

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My mom and her bestie, c1940 or 1941.

My mom, Mary (R), and her best friend, Mary.
Kodak Senior Six-20. Her camera.

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Street Photography – 1940s

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Souvenir Snaps, 512 W. Hastings Street, Vancouver, B.C.

One of these guys is my uncle on my mom’s side (he married my mom’s sister).
The back says ‘Souvenir Snaps, 512 W. Hastings St., Vancouver, B.C.’
They are WWII Canadian Air Force Pilot Flight Officers (Flight Engineers). My guess is it’s the gent on the right (maybe).

My Aunt Helen and Uncle Ron Godden in the late 1940s (maybe).

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us – 1985

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A Kodak Instant camera image of us, Chris and Carol (recently “found”).

Yes, my shorts were 1980s short. lol

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My Mom

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Remembering my mom, Mary, on what would have been her 108th birthday. Always in my heart.
1976, photo taken by my wife, Carol, at Jensen Beach, Florida.

A favorite picture of us.
1960.

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word wednesday

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Inspiration

A painting I started and almost finished in 1967.
Here is the inspiration piece. A postcard from 1953.

The Montauk Point lighthouse was one of my favorite places to visit as a child. It was the first place I drove to by myself after receiving my driver’s license in 1971.

A family vacation in the summer of 2002.

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My Family – 1945

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June 1945
464 62nd Street, Brooklyn, New York
Uncle Ray, Nana (Ida), and Aunt Janey
Most older photographs don’t do the subjects justice, but this one does. I believe the camera was a 6×9.

The war in Europe was over and a couple of months the war with Japan would end. It looked like a beautiful summer day in the small backyard of my grandmother’s home.

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Happy SUNday! – Fifty Years Together!

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At the Whispering Canyon Cafe at the Disney Wilderness Lodge.

I first met Carol on my birthday in 1972. We started dating in the Summer of 1973 and married in March 1974. Hopefully there’s many more years together.

1980
1973

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