Vera Chichester sent my father a bunch of pics from his (and her deceased husband’s) Navy days aboard the USS Hyman in the early 1950s. Some of these I scanned twice, each time making sure it was in the scanner perfectly straight, but they still scanned at an angle. Cheap machinery!
Dad with “a Roman cop”
“McCaffrey”
“Poppy”
“Fall River, Mass.”
“Harcklerode, one of our team opponents.”
“…Budd & Nolan”
“Joe Stahlin”
Art Idem with my father
my father and Chi (Chichester)
I took pics yesterday so you could more fully grasp my classroom in all its glory.
The inviting exterior:
Ceiling:
Walls and cracks:
(That’s the outside world you see through that crack of light!)
Floorboards and misc. beauty:
Our source of drinking water; note that there are dead ants in the little catch thingy.
Antique computer with floppy drive. The CD/DVD drive is just for decoration. It doesn’t actually work.
Hope you enjoyed the tour! Please visit the gift shop on your way out!
Including visits back to New Jersey in 1970 and 1972
Grandmother. OMG — in this picture, my grandmother is around 6 1/2 years older than I am now!!!
I always loved this picture of Liane.
Sandy Hunt and I, 8th grade graduation. My mother made that dress, because my school colors were purple and white. I really liked it, even though I think I only wore it that once.
Post-Skokie years:
These were my high school friends. The pics aren’t clear, but I still saved them all these years and can still pick out many of the people!
4th birthday
Going to Kindergarten in my lavender coat 
Aunt Lee
Donna, one Christmas
the monkey bars I fell off of and got a concussion from!
The park always had all sorts of summer activities for kids. This was a bike event.
The Phoenix cousins — I don’t remember why I cut the bottom off, but I think it was to fit this into one of those large collage frames.
me, John, my father, my grandmother, and my cousins Larry and Liane
not in chronological order, just in the order in which I scanned them
my hospital pic
me, age one
I think this pic of my mother was taken the day she got married
Larry and Liane
If I have more than one copy of these, then you may have already seen some. Everything I’m posting today was scanned today, but another print of the same photo may have been scanned earlier.
I had written on the back of this: Susan Huffstedler, great-great grandmother
I had on the back of this: Ada Alma Huffstedler Bridges, c. 1935, great grandmother
I think this is Pappy, my mother’s grandfather.
These are some of the school pics in my albums. Actually, just loose album pages.
Me:
high school graduation picture
8th grade graduation picture
third or fourth grade
John:
my favorite!!!
Donna:
Liane:
high school graduation, I’m nearly positive
When you get to this post, it’s the last of today’s photo entries (although the first one I’m doing, obviously).
I scanned a ton of pics, and then downloaded the ones from my camera as well. I’ll start with the most recent pics.
We recently went to a Toros game (our third of the season, I think). Ronald McDonald threw out the first pitch. Actually, some of these might be from a different game, so I apologize if I already posted some of these.
I had a couple of pics of RMc himself. If I find them I’ll post them later.
These are pics from one of Donna’s recent visits, taken at (I think) Chinese Buffet.
This one has a story behind it: I was looking all over for the Sweet ‘n Low to put in the clear plastic thing. I looked everywhere! Well, apparently, not quite.
A pool picture — because you can never have too many pool pictures that don’t actually include what you look like in a bathing suit!
Del and Christine (part of the Sunday Blue Willow bunch)
I’m scanning photos while they’re still in decent condition, and because various people wanted copies at some point. Some of these are ancient — and yet there are readers here who remember me this way! Enjoy!
8 weeks old/January 1958:
May 1958:
First Birthday/November 1958:
Misc. Chicago 1960-61:
Grandpa and Zia Lia, Paterson, summer 1970
Uncle Tommy, Wayne, summer 1970
Actually, I’m not sure how much “etc.” there is. We’ll see! Donna came down the weekend of the fourth of July. She got here on Friday afternoon, and we went to the folks’ for supper. Saturday we spent a lot of time there as well, swimming and eating. Then we went to Marana to see fireworks. There were supposed to be all these activities and stuff, so we went early. Well, the activities were all spread out and not really where we were exactly. But once the fireworks started, it was great! Then Sunday we went to breakfast with the folks’, went to Bookman’s to look at their used books and turn some in for trade. Then we went home and took a nap!!!!!!! Yes, I was pooped! I’ve gotten to like summer naps!!
Friday (yesterday) morning I took Del to the airport for a trip to Cape Cod. It’s a bit nippy where she is!! Some of the days she’ll be gone, the high is expected to be 62! As I was driving home tonight, the temp was 109. A little difference! While she’s gone, I’m taking care of her cat twice a day, visiting and giving her meds. Then on Sunday (the 19th?) night, I’ll pick her up from the airport. She doesn’t live that far from here — 15-20 minutes, and I don’t have to deal with the dog since he’s at “camp” while they’re gone (Del and Laura).
The state has an approved education budget finally, but it hasn’t been signed yet. The superintendent sent a memo saying that actually around 1000 employees have been affected by this, and they should be done recalling RIFs by the beginning of August. That’s like two weeks before school starts!! Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh!
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