Saturday, May 20, 2006

The Meeker Family Cafe and Garage in 1930 (no longer there) in the Cajon Pass, Route 66, California...

The Meeker Family Cafe and Garage in 1930 (no longer there) in the Cajon Pass, Route 66, California


The Lytle Creek Ranger Station, San Bernardino National Forest, California


Movie actor Glenn Ford


Early photo of Roy Rogers with George "Gabby" Hayes

Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Owl Drug Store, 102 East Second Street, Pomona, California in the 1950s..(not like what it looks like today in this area)

Owl Drug Store, 102 East Second Street, Pomona, California in the 1950s..(not like what it looks like today in this area)


Residence of Charles French in 1887 on North Garey Avenue, Pomona, California (house no longer there)

My older brother, John, at around age thirteen...Pomona, California

My older brother, John, at around age thirteen...Pomona, California


Me, at age fifteen, on the left, with my older sister, Dorothy Lee, who is holding her newly born baby girl, Sandra..Location is in the rear of our third Pomona address at 671 Elaine Street


My Mother, Mercedes, on the right, at work at the Pomona First Federal Savings and Loan Assn on North Garey Avenue in Pomona, California, in the early 1960s..She is with another employee at the time, Pat Dunnebeck

My mother, in front of the original Pomona First Federal Savings and Loan Assn at 260 Thomas Street in Pomona..I was taking the photo at age eleven

My mother, in front of the original Pomona First Federal Savings and Loan Assn location at 260 Thomas Street in Pomona, California..I was taking the photo at age eleven in 1954..The new building of the Pomona First Federal was built on North Garey Avenue in 1956 and still stands there today


My older sister, Dorothy Lee, on the beach at Newport Beach, California in 1954, where we went most every August for my mother`s vacation..I was taking this photo at the age of eleven


The old Pomona post office on 2nd street, between Thomas Street and Garey Avenue, in the 1890s
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My dad, in the center, as a young kid, with his brothers

My dad, in the center, as a young kid, with his brothers


Pomona, California in 1885..Looking north from 2nd and Thomas Streets


The Pomona Mall (Second Street paved over) in 1961
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