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THE YOUNG MALE SPECIES IN POSE

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  My husband’s Dad, Charles Charles and his younger brother, Al. Al (in the hat) and his younger brother, Melvin. Mel poses solo. The brothers: Charles, Mel, and Al. My husband posing in a costume of some kind in the mid 1940s.  What an expression! Like father, like son.  Our son in 1970 posing with an expression very similar to his father’s 25 years before. Back to my husband – this time in a rather fancy looking American Indian costume. Our son played Indian brave for Halloween when he was 4, but Mom’s version of the costume wasn’t quite as fancy as his Dad’s. Hubby asked for and got a football uniform for Christmas in the early 1950s.  He’s been a football fan most of his life.  Me too.  I was playing football in the street with a neighborhood boy when I was 10 and 11 – just about the time future husband was striking this pose.  The closest he ever got to being in a game was playing in the band.  The closest I ever got to being in a game was c...
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MOUNTAINS: MERCURIAL, MYSTIC, MAJESTIC, MAGNIFICENT

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  My Dad in the 1930s with, I think, Mt. Shasta behind him.  Or it could have been Mt. Lassen?  Both are in California's Cascade mountain range.  Unfortunately there was no description on the back of the photograph. Mount. Shasta.  I tobogganed somewhere up there in the early '60s back when Shasta boasted a ski resort.  The town at the foot of the mountain is Mount Shasta City. Mt. Shasta seen from the small community of McCloud, with a red barn to add an artistic touch. Lake Almanor in northern Calif. where the Sierra and Cascade mountain ranges meet, with Mount Lassen in the background. Mt. Edgecumbe in Sitka, Alaska.  We were here in 1997 to visit friends.  It’s an amazing place with hundreds of large and small forested islands all around – some of the larger ones supporting homes which have to supply their own water, sewer systems, & electricity.  And of course they have to take a boat to town to buy groceries, see a doctor, or whatev...
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BRICK BACKGROUNDS

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  My Mom and me posing on our brick front porch with brick walk & brick chimney wall.  Dad and me with the brick wall around the base of our bay window. I was 4 when I posed here on our brick walk with the brick porch and chimney behind me. The brick chimney, porch, and walk made a great posing place for my Mom in 1947. Maybe not so great a place for me to pose at age 10 in my Mom’s old bathing suit and high heels thinking I was hot stuff.  Good grief – look at that awful hairdo! My middle sis and me when I was 12 and she was 6 or 7.  Thank heaven my hair had grown out and Mom didn’t try to give me another permanent. My brother and middle sis playing ping-pong on our terrace with a low brick wall behind them. Mom and Dad posed in front of our brick chimney in 1967. My husband and youngest daughter caught by surprise in front of the raised brick hearth and wall he built for the woodstove in our Oakhurst house in 1978. Our daughters with Tigger, the cat, in front o...
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