Memories of the '70s -- Angeles Crest Highway, San Gabriel Mts, CA

October 1970, somewhere along the Angeles Crest Hwy
This was our first excursion into the local mountains. The ride was a very long one since we started in Hawthorne. We finally found a roadside stop that appealed to my aunt and had our picnic. Even at 12, I was proud of my capture here.
From the top - counterclockwise,
My dad, siting on the bench; his oldest sister, his 1st cousin, my mom, and cousin's wife.
My dad and his sister have passed away, but everyone else is still doing well.

October 1970
Somewhere near Mt. Wilson.
Me, Dad, and Mom.

Memories of Highland Park - Frank's Camera - OCT '70 (Los Angeles, CA)

Mama i tata (or Mom & Dad) - a month after arriving to the US and new owners of a Kodak Instamatic camera.

Rye High School - Rye, New York (Sepia Scenes)

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My mother-in-law was a native of Rye and graduated from Rye HS in 1942. I had a chance to visit Rye last summer.

The Rye Reading Room (the library) had old issues of The Rye Chronicle. The high school opened in 1931.

My mother-in-law is in the 1st column, 5th row.

Beauty and the Beach - 1910

Mary Ruder, my husband's paternal grandmother, somewhere on the Southern California coast in 1910. This must have been shortly after she came to California from Mankato, Minnesota.

Can anyone help me identify the pier?

Remembrance of a Rose Parade Past (Pasadena, CA - New Year's 1971)

This really poor quality photo brings back great memories. That's me, when I was 12, with my mom in a coat over a maxi skirt at our first Tournament of Roses post-parade display. My dad took the picture. The pants were bought at Robinson's monthly sale...they were brown & rust & buff cords and I loved them.

Memories of New Year's Past

Mama, me (5 years old) & tata (Dad) in our apartment on the 7th floor of the 10 story 'skyscraper' on 139 Marshall Tito St in Tuzla, Bosnia (former Yugoslavia). We were celebrating the New Year, which was when the "jelka" (fir tree) was decorated and "Deda Mraz" (Grandpa Frost) came to bring presents, in the then communist Yugoslavia.
Photos for festive occasions were taken by a professional photographer, this one from FotoServis. My mom is still a beauty. Photo from pre-school (obdaniste) - my friend and next door neighbor, Mischa (Milos S.), and I (we had just finished making the skirts and the hats). I remember that I had a fever that day.

Milos moved with his parents to Novi Sad, Serbia in '71 or '72.

My Son's First Floatplane Flight - Kenmore Air, Kenmore, WA

In a Super Cub with instructor Anna Nystrom
Kenmore, WA, north end of Lake Washington