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Duck hunting success on the Iron Range. My Grandpa Floyd and Uncle Duane. |
Duck hunting success on the Iron Range. This would be about 1938 or 1939, before the war.
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My Great Aunts and Uncles on my Mom's side of the family. |
Earl, about eight years old? |
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My
father, Earl, when he was about 25 years old. He
had me compare this photo to his father's photo
when my grandfather was his age.
Wow, they look alike!!! |
Earl
the political dude,
when he ran for Mayor, circa 1974 or so.
Nice plaid sportcoat, Pops! |
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Our
family with an Israeli exchange student who lived
with us one year. Note the color of my hair. I'm
not sure it could be that white if you dyed it! |
Note
that my sister was still taller than me. Also note
my Dad's cool 1970's auto-adjusting shade lenses,
which were the rage, I am sure... |
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Uncle
Tony after he crawled out of the grave on Halloween,
1998. Now I remember why Ian (left) had the nickname
of "Peanut" at one point! Look at the
size-ratio of my hand and his head!!!
Looks like I could pick Ian up like a basketball. |
My
Mom and my Grandfather Floyd at the White Swan Lake
cabin showing off the new fireplace Floyd built.
I think that is my cousin Bruce in Grandpa Floyd's
lap. This is the man who gave me the middle name
of Floyd! |
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Another
wonderful exchange student who lived with us for
a year. 1977-1978 I believe. Her name was Kayori
Watanabe. I still remember how to count to 20 in
Japanese from her! |
Kayori
Watanabe. The surname Watanabe in Japan is like
"Smith" to us. Her brother "Mo"
came and stayed with us the following year and we
went to a Styx Grand Illusion Tour concert. |
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Earl
and Judy on one of their first dates! Gotta love
the smoke in Earl's hand! 1964 or so... |
A
precious photo of me and my mom, which looks like
it is at Mt. Telemark Lodge. |
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Our
golden retriever "Sandy," who got inadvertantly
"serviced" by Casey the Yellow Lab next
door the first time she went into heat. |
Tony's
4th grade school photo.
Congdon Park Elementary School |
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Earl
chipping away at the Berlin Wall, 1989. Teri went
with him. See one
of the chunks they gave me as a memento! |
Earl
and Tony, late 1970's. Earl had his fantastic perm
going on. |
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My
Uncle Ray in a derby racer, late 1930's |
My
Uncle Ray and Grandma Rose, circa WWII |
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Tony's
great grandfather William! |
Tony
in 1987 in Lichtenstein |
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Tony
playing on some silly "spinning wheel"
playground dealy-bobber on West Skyline Parkway
when I was about 5 years old. |
A
"doctored" image of Grandpa Earl and Grandma
Judy with Ian, Annalise and Colin. |
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My Mom (about age 4) with my Grandfather Floyd (center) and a family friend. About 1946 north of Nashwauk, MN. |
My Mom (about age 4) with my Grandfather Floyd (center) and a family friend. About 1946 north of Nashwauk, MN. |
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| Tony
in his Kindergarten photo, circa 1974. What a blue-eyed,
blonde headed little toe-head! |
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| My Aunt Verna and my Grandma Rose at the Cabin. |
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| My Cousin Bruce is rowing, and that is my Mom in the U of Minnesota sweatshirt at the top right. |
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| My Mom with a nice Northern Pike caught on White Swan Lake. |
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| Above: My Cousins Barb and Bruce and my Mom with a Northern Pike. |
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| Above: My Mom as an infant little girl. |
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| (above) My Mom, Judy, when she was very little, in Mahoning, MN |
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(above) My Mom, Judy, when she was very little, in Mahoning, MN
(note the trousers and heavy sweater that make her look chunky, LOL!)
I told her it looks like the garb that Our Gang and the Little Rascals wore, ha ha!
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| (above) This is my Mom (pictured at the far right) with her high school girlfriends. |
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| (above) My Mom, Judy, with her lunchbox, ready for school. She called me to tell me about this photo, that her mother must have made this dress for her, since they didn't just go out to retail stores and buy nice dresses like this back then. |
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| (above) My Mom, Judy, with her friend Marilyn who was a next-door neighbor friend. |
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| (above) My Mom, Judy, dressed in what looks like a really nice wool winter coat. I don't think this was made at home, so my Grandma or Grandpa must have bought this lovely coat for her. |
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| (above) My Mom, Judy, with my Uncle Ray. |
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| (above) My Mom, Judy, with my Uncle Ray again. Mom told me that when Ray was in town in summers, he and his buddies would take her out on the town everywhere they went during the day to bring her around, because she was quite a novelty and fun to have around. Judy was so much younger than her older sister and two brothers, by almost an entire generation (whoops!), and none of Ray's buddies had little sisters as young as Judy, so they had fun just driving her around town. |
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| (above) Uncle Ray, my Mom, Judy, and her sister, my Aunt Verna. Judy says this looks like Verna's wedding dress, so they were all dressed up to go to her wedding. |
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| (above) My Mom, Judy, with my Aunt Verna. |
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| (above) My Mom, Judy, with my Aunt Verna in her WWII Army Air Corps uniform. |
