Memories of life

@Oldjoints, that photo clearly identifies you as a geezer! :slight_smile: :+1:

I’ve posted a few pictures of my past in different threads already, but I do like old/archival pictures (those of my and other people’s families and experiences), so I’ll post a few more here.

This is a picture of my mom before I or my sisters were born. She was a pretty serious babe! In the very early 1930, I know she dated a gangster. I believe this was taken after the gangster, but I don’t know for certain. I believe this was taken around 1935.

This is a photo of my dad as a child, ca 1912. This was taken at their home in Gardena, CA. Today, of course, Gardena is a densely populated urban city. When this photo was taken, Gardena was several miles past the end of the trolly line.

This is a photo taken in the mid-1980s of me and my family at my Canadian sister’s house in Maple Ridge, BC. My sisters are nine years older than I am. We all had a nice time.

I’ve always loved animals. This is me with one of my guinea pig moms and her piglets. I love their little squeaks! As it turns out, Mrs. mota also raised guinea pigs when she was a child. I also raised and raced pigeons. I think this was taken around 1962 or 63.

My Kiwi sister took a series of photos of my son that I think are very lovely. This is one of that series. It appears he had new shoes. This is mid-1970s.

This is one of my son and I on the front deck of my friend Nick’s house when Eli was a little older. I’m teaching him to pass clubs in this photo (the white clubs are Jugglebugs, the colored ones are Dubes.) It was probably June and we were getting ready for the Oregon Country Fair in July. It was the first year he passed with other jugglers. Although the owner of the house was a serious grower, that’s not weed in the pot. Nick and five other guys grew on a 600 acre corn farm in Iowa. All six are dead, and none of their deaths were in any way drug related. Just bad luck. Nick’s house was on the north side of the lower Columbia River, just a few miles from Astoria. It was the next to the last house on a 21 mile dead end road.

I’ve posted this somewhere else previously, but I like the three photos as a progression of my son’s growth. This one is from the Oregon Country Fair in 2015. I had been a security crew leader from 1980 until 1995. Eli took over as crew leader of my old crew in 2015. I worked on his crew that year just for the fun of it. There were simply too many people for me to really enjoy the experience in the moment. As I reflect on it though, I’m really happy that I did.

2015 OCF

This is the kind of thing he’d like to be doing in 6 - 8 years, when he retires. Nothing commercial. High-end residential only. If you scroll up several posts you’ll see some amazing woodworking.

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