Jean In The Water

Paul should now have the scanned slides. It's up to him to further organize and then distribute. But I'll continue to move through what I have with things I find interesting or questions that might help Paul know where to put things. This is an example of the latter. Judging from the frames this would be '65-'67, but other than that any idea where we are? There are a lot of Chub Lake pictures so the likely candidate is Chub.

Thanksgiving week 1961

There is an envelope with 8 negatives in black and white dated 11/20/61. They cost 69 cents. There is also handwriting that says "some pictures taken days before Helen entered the hospital".

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I recognize Grandma Carlson, but is the other woman John's mom?

Circle Tour

Moving on. . .I've posted a few from the Circle Tour of 1961 that were misplaced. Here's one from the circle tour proper that I really liked.

Helen

We're up to the fateful year of 1961. This is from a batch labeled 2-16-61, so I'm assuming this is actually from the previous summer. This is my favorite slide of them all.

1. It is perhaps trite to say it because it is so obvious, but I will nevertheless say it. . .Helen was a beautiful woman.

2. From the stories I've heard and the portrait of these slides, it appears that she had an internal beauty to match the outward.

3. All her life Jean has been told how much she looks like Helen. That has been, I'm sure and I know, a mixed blessing.

4. Also in these photos I see images of her grand-daughters. In one I'll think "that looks like Katy" and in another "there's Heidi". They're lucky. It helps to explain why we have so many lovely grand-daughters running around.

5. The external beauty of the three grand-sons is still being debated.

John

Mark noted that John is seldom seen in these photos. So I went back to try and find him. Here's one place where he shows up.

Again, notice how baby Paul dominates all of these photos. What an egotistical twerp!

By the way, I say "John" out of no disrespect but only to distinguish him in my mind from "Helge". There was a time early in their marriage where I swore I would never call him "father". But, thank God, that quickly dissipated. Now, as time has distanced these events, I think of "John" and "Helge" just to keep things straight. They were both, in their time, my Father.

A Not-Duluth Picnic

This picnic is outdoors so I guess we're not in Duluth anymore. Anyone know where this is?

A Duluth Picnic

Hot dogs and root beer. Mark and Greg are so grownup they don't need bibs. Looks like Jean could use a Kleenex.

Christmas

1. Tim hasn't gotten any thinner here. 2. I like that cool computer monitor in the corner.

Two Babies

Nice to see that even Tim was once a little on the chubby side.

In The Beginning

The main problems with '61-'63 are solved. I'm almost done scanning slides and soon they will be off to Paul for final editing. So in the meantime I'm going to start at the beginning, with a box marked 1957-1958 and show some that I think are interesting for some reason or other.

More than one person has told me that poor Paul, being the youngest, didn't have many pictures taken, but that is not true with these slides. Easily a third of this box, for example, is taken up with baby Paul in one form or another.

Popeye and Mink Lake

Just a few more from the "blank slides". Here's a group where Mark is Popeye and Greg just got back from Mink Lake.




You know the drill - who, what, where, when, why.

Always the epitome of good manners Mark takes his hat off while indoors.









I'm pretty sure (judging from the lack of front teeth in the twins) that this photo is from 1961 and prior to the above three. But here Mark has the Mink Lake sweat shirt. Did he outgrow it and Greg inherited it? Or did Greg get his own new one a year or two later?

Who is this?

Very good! The puzzle of the blank slides is coming into focus. Next. . .anybody recognize these people? Where and when did you visit them? There are sheep involved.



And are some of the girls on that farm the same girls at this playground?
















If we assume for sake of argument that Paul doesn't wear the same clothes for months on end then it is highly likely that his birthday was celebrated at the same time as the farm visit.

"Biking Round the Neighborhood"

Dean remembers biking in OshKosh. So would this be evidence of that memory? If so then any photos with any of these kids in them would also be from OshKosh in 1962.