Weblog #7..Family photos, assorted other photos, music, stories, information and more...

2008-03-17T02:42:00.000-07:00

1920`s Dance Music
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2008-03-17T02:19:00.000-07:00

May 14, 1956..Pomona High School fire..East Holt Ave, Pomona, CA..School was built in 1923..My brother was in his junior year at this school in 1956...

Pomona First Federal Savings and Loan Assn, 1957, main office where my mother once worked as an insurance clerk, 2094 N. Garey Ave, Pomona, Calif...

Knott`s Berry Farm, October 31, 1953

2007-10-03T20:26:00.000-07:00

I was taking this photo at age eleven while the family was visiting Knott`s Berry Farm..This was one of the many attractions where you can look through the bars at some guy who is in jail and your friend would tell the guy at the front booth what your friend wants the guy in the jail (which actually is just a dummy figure of some guy) to say to you while you are looking at him through the bars of the jail, and this is why everyone in this photo is cracking-up..My mother is on the far left with two friends

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The Pomona First Federal Savings and Loan Assn employees of 1956

2006-07-05T01:12:00.000-07:00

The 1956 Pomona First Federal Savings and Loan Assn employees..
Photo was taken shortly after this new building was built on North Garey Avenue in Pomona, California, and replacing the old building at 260 South Thomas Street..
My mother was employed as an insurance clerk here and she is pictured in the second row from the front, the fifth person from the left who is seated behind a desk and she has a white sweater on and wearing glasses...
I might also add that Pomona was a much different (and better) city than it is today at the time of this photo...Today Pomona resembles downtown skid row Los Angeles more than anything else
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This is one of my father`s photos...Photography was one of his hobbies and he had his own dark room...He liked to take photos of natural looking places, such as this photo, and scenic type photos...My mother and my father, before I was born, would always go to Yellow Stone National Park in Wyoming and there they would camp out and he took many photos of the area...His occupation was as a lawyer for the Amarillo Oil Company...My brother and sister were both born in Amarillo, Texas..However, I was born later in Nebraska after my mom and dad had already split-up...My dad died in 1973 at the age of 62

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Me, at age eight, in front of our first Pomona residence when I was just learning to ride a bike

2006-07-04T20:39:00.000-07:00

Me, at age eight, in front of our first Pomona residence when I was just learning to ride a bike...My grandfather was taking the photo

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

2006-05-20T11:13:00.000-07:00

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

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

2006-05-16T14:46:00.000-07:00

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

2006-05-16T14:32:00.000-07:00

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

2006-05-16T14:06:00.000-07:00

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

2006-05-16T13:44:00.000-07:00

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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