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.
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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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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.
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It’s not an age I ever thought I’d see but here I am!
Interstate speed limit – 70!My first camera – Lake Mead, 1960Retirement day, March 1997. With Carol my wife of 50 years.With my Asahi Pentax 6×7
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Family trip to California and Nevada in December 1960. I’m pictured with my first camera which was a Christmas gift that year – Kodak Brownie Flashmite 20 which used 620 roll film (it’s still available today). I’ve long ago “lost” the camera somewhere in time. BTW, this image was taken by my dad with his Polaroid 110 Pathfinder camera (1953) which I still proudly own. Happy Mother’s Day! Thanks for stopping by, Chris P.S. I had just turned 7 in November.
1960 in Las Vegas – Kodak Brownie Flashmite 20 – my first camera.1976 – Jensen Beach, Florida
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A simple Thanksgiving dinner with family. This is as fancy as we get!
The plates and glasses are my mom and dad’s passed down to us. I believe they received them back in the early 1950s. It’s a very small way to have them share dinner with us.
A mess but it’s what we like to have for our Thanksgiving meal.
I hope everyone had a chance to spend the day or weekend if you were lucky with some or all of your family and friends. I can remember more than a few that we weren’t able to do that and are thankful whenever we can. Thanks for stopping by, Chris, Carol, and Tim.
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My mom Mary pictured here at NAS Jacksonville, Florida in the early 1980s.
Today is the 106th anniversary of her birth. She’s always in my heart.
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From our trip to Disneyland and Disney’s California Adventure in March 2004. Good times!
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In celebration of my mom, Mary on this Mother’s Day 2022. She was born on September 10, 1916, at home on East 74th Street in Manhattan (just down the street from Central Park). She told me that the rooftops and streets of the Upper East Side were her playgrounds and the East River (yes, THAT river!) was where she splashed in the heat of summer. She would go on to become a secretary for some of the biggest corporations in America which were headquartered in New York. She would meet my dad (Paul) at the wedding of her best friend and fall in love with him at first sight. She married my dad on November 3, 1943, just a few blocks from where she grew up. During the war, she worked at Columbia University and would go on to receive recognition for her work on the Manhattan Project receiving a Silver ‘A’ Pin for her contributions. By the middle 1950’s she was a suburban housewife (not a bad thing to say then but if you said it today you’d catch heck) and be the best mom in the world to me… she was at every baseball game and at my school functions and she taught me the ropes of New York and life. My mom was the strongest person I knew… in less than twenty years she would lose the man she loved with all her heart and fight on to see me through those difficult years that came after. Sadly she left way too soon herself but her love of the City, of life, of adventure, and her courage, are with me today. My mom’s Kodak from 1938 and a host of images she took with it are special to me… my parent’s love of photography was passed down to me (foto DNA) and that remains an important connection to them.
If you’ve read this through I thank you… it is only a small gesture that I can make in her memory today.
Together at Jensen Beach, Florida (December 1976).
Just before I deployed to Japan for three years.
Las Vegas 1961.
My first camera and my mom is holding a recently taken Polaroid print.
Wishing everyone a very Happy Mother’s Day! – Chris
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We’re celebrating our 48th wedding anniversary today – here pictured with my best friend and wife.
At a New York Mets spring training game in Port St. Lucie, Florida (Spring 2015).Way back in 1973 – no we weren’t stoned.1980 – We’re just back from my tour of duty in Japan aboard the USS Midway. We lived in Yokohama.Retired from the US Navy in March 1997.
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