Pictures of Dead Relatives, Pt. X

[fflo]

This is a picture of my father (on the left) in his dorm room at the U. South Dakota in the mid-1950s. That's a portrait of my mother on the wall. I suppose that's his roommate. How cheesy & collegiate, the alcoholic beverages & the wastebasket with pennants; how cool, that desk lamp; how odd that they had bunk beds.




He was probably 15 in this one, getting ready to go to college. Kinda got the dork goin'. I didn't scan any of the baby-beauty-contest-winning ones from his early youth.



Pretty dorky here, too. I like this shot, though. They seem to be pretty happy, and there's a trailer in the background. Something about him here reminds me of pal L.

Comments

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Seeing this reminded me of an interesting thing I found in a google search once. The brother that I have the least contact with, Walter, actually submitted a paper that my dad wrote about his experiences in WWII (all safely behind the lines), along with some photos to a historical/veteran website. I had never seen the paper or the photos, and so this was all news to me when I stumbled across it:

http://www.qsl.net/pe1ngz/stories/story-rafiraq.html

Maybe I should put this on my own LJ.

[paperkingdoms]

Your college dorm experience didn't involve bunk beds? Mine certainly did. They were more substantial than those, and unbunkable... but most people bunked them.

[sprig5.livejournal.com]

that picture of your parents with the trailer in the background-- your dad has your jaw there