"Hey Beaver, let's try smokin' it." - Larry Mondello, "Leave It to Beaver"
Ira and Mildred had a small home in Teakwood Village, a retirement mobile home park in Largo, Florida. Over the years, I made several visits to their home with my parents and have very fond memories of our get-togethers.
Continuing with a batch of recently-located slides from our 1975 Florida trip. Between the many activities of this fun-filled (but mostly lost-from-memory) vacation, including a day at Disney World, Sunken Gardens, and a visit with Ira and Mildred (highlighted in more detail here) – we did a lot of swimming as indicated in these nice shots. I used to love to swim when I was younger but gradually seemed to enjoy it less at times when I was overweight. You will soon enjoy photos of me in 1985 where I am laying out in a t-shirt. As for now – I enjoy swimming once again and spent a lot of this past summer in the refreshing waters. Read the rest of this entry »
Because I have only sparse memories of this 1975 trip to St. Pete Beach, Florida, these photos mean more to me as a memory jogger of my 1977 Florida trip to the exact same location. That said location was the Odyssey, a tourist destination known for the white sands and surf of the Gulf of Mexico. I fondly remember running about on its grounds during our 1977 trip. What I don’t remember (but it doesn’t surprise me) was that I evidently loved standing on the beach and feeding the sea gulls as indicated in the photo above right and the one below. Read the rest of this entry »
As I deduced in my previous posting about Florida 1975 and my first trip to Disney World, my Dad did in fact bring along his camera. Once he agreed that there must be additional slides of this trip somewhere, he went on double-secret alert scouting for the missing transparencies. On Christmas Eve, he presented me with the heretofore lost artifacts, which had turned up in the back of his closet, along with some other great slides of the era – plus some additional ones of his family trips from the 1960’s. These Florida slides were dated June of 1975, further narrowing the dates of the trip. Read the rest of this entry »
I guess you could say that I have always taken great pride in my work. So I would guess that it was sometime around 1975 that I first learned to write my name – a feat that I wanted to proudly share with everyone. I also was probably told that it was good to put your name on things that were yours so that if they were lost, you could reclaim them. That is why I decided that I would put my name on every single item possible in my room. Read the rest of this entry »