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Archive for the '1970's - Early' Category

My First Birthday

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

My first birthday was October 2, 1972. I guess there was quite a fuss made. In fact, the folks had two different birthday parties for me at our house on John Glenn - the first with my Mom’s family and the second with my Dad’s family. Since my birthday fell on a Monday, I have […]

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Leisure At Home

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Inside an old Airequipt slide magazine sits a batch of slides situated between the Michigan 1972 trip and my first birthday, labelled only as Leisure At Home. A few of these photos are familiar to me as there were eventually prints made of them which ended up in our family photo albums. Others remained just as they were, […]

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My First Big Vacation - Michigan ‘72

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Although I had been whisked away from the comfortable surroundings of home for a brief weekend getaway at Woodland Altars during the Spring of 1972, my first big vacation didn’t come until mid-Summer later that year. My parents and I traveled along with Bill and Dottie and their kids to a tiny cottage owned by […]

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Woodland Altars was the Church of the Brethren campsite where I would spend a week for every Summer between 1981-1990 - in addition to periodic visits throughout the 1970’s and stays at the chalets throughout the 1990’s and 2000’s. I spent my very first weekend there during a trip around May 1972. At about eight month olds, […]

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That title is nearly longer than the text here! In an effort to be complete, here are some additional snapshots and photos of my parents and me as we appeared around March or April of 1972 while living in our small abode on John Glenn Road in Dayton. These are an addendum to the photos […]

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