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Love the expression on the young lady (right)!. I have no idea who they are!

"Gran-poppa-wheelie". My son Rich and his good wife Sue visited us in Mission, TX at Christmastime. I met them at the gate on my bike. Rich shot this photo and then later they used this camera magic to make it look like I popped a wheelie! We all got a good laugh.

Valentine the Dog...1911. This was the family dog in 1911. They called him Valentine...I think he was
joined to the family on that day!

Billy at Illinois State Fair. This animated milk carton was a favorite of youngsters at the Illinois State Fair Dairy Products Building. He would, sing, dance and play the piano in a life like manner. It was wonderful to watch the children wave at him and say "Goodbye" when they had to leave. Billy was driven by compressed air and a computer program. PS: That is Billy on the right!!!!

1942 Hospital Bill. In Aug. 1942 Dad put me in Ft. Craig Hospital in Maryville, TN for a hernia
operation. In view of today's health
care costs, I was amazed at the prices
charged him for this 13 day stay in the
hospital. $85.00! It's outrageous! :-)
I have no idea what his salary amounted
to in 1942. I was 15 and a wild child. I
took the screws out of his gun cabinet and
drank his whiskey...took his pistols down
to my buddie's house and we blazed away at
tin cans on a fence post. (No backstop! The
slugs were going into a neighbors kitchen
over the hill! They were breaking glasses
on a shelf). That next month Dad enrolled
m e in TMI, a military school in Sweetwater,TN. That was my Junior Year of
High School.

Goog and Bride. The guy here is a GOOG (grumpy obnoxious old geezer)! It's me, shortly after our wedding at a "Fun Foto" concession on the
Illinois State Fairgrounds. "smile"!

Cactus as the Apostle Thaddeus. I found this old slide and thought it was a hoot! (A blue eyed heavy bearded portrayal of an Apostle of Jesus Christ.
This was taken about 1957 at a church in Quincy where I appeared in a skit of the "LAST SUPPER" as the apostle Thaddeus. I don't think I had a speaking part which is a good thing! :-)

My sister Lilian (Winnie) with Dad's Birdmobile. My Dad's hobby was working with high temperature kilns. He made a mobile in his
living room by suspendijg a bicycle wheel from an arch and then hanging glass birds from it at different heights. One single wire went up the middle and every so many minutes would crank 25 revolutions in to the system. Then shut down. The birds would each fly in a diferent orbit and not bang into each other. It was quite a spectacle.

Fun? oh me!. It's a '59 Chevy so this had to
be '59 or l960.