Childhood Photos 1949-1950 5th Grade

 

Childhood Photos 1949-1950 5th Grade

Eileen, Mom, and her three boys: Tommie, Jimmie and Bill (sometimes still Billie!)
Notice the favorite setting for pictures…

 

The second favorite location for photos… Bill and his Mom. Similar dress style, I note.

The grove, off to the north east from the house, behind the chicken houses… a favorite play place.

The Kinnick cousins, Kathleen, Kelton and Karen, were at the farm on a Sunday afternoon. Very common occurrence - Jimmie and I seem to be sticking our tongues out. Not the nicest of photo. Later on I built a ‘cabin’ in the grove, to the right of this photo location. Don’t think any photos survive of it. There were also old farm implements stored here, that made for great climbing around on.
What fun!

Another county fair photo, I’m sure. No way to date this, so here it is!!! ;-)

Star Church young people gathered together for some occasion.

Back Row, left to right, Ann Rees, Dwight Brown, Doyle Gymer, Bill Smith, Dennis Ford, Phil Huffed
Middle Row, left to right, Tom Rees, Charlotte Shirbroun, Donna Grim, Nancy Bolger, ??
Front Row, left to right, ??, Jessie Rees, Marla Williams, Ramona McGee, Wayne Grim

Could make lots of comments, but I’ll leave that up to you, the reader…
Frustrating not to remember those two girls names… help?

Good example of young folks, guys and gals, growing and maturing at different paces…

I did notice how Nancy and I always seemed to stand nearby to one another… pure chance??


See you down the road…  :-)
 

Childhood Images 1948-1949 - 4th Grade

 

Childhood Images 1948-1949 - 4th Grade

This appears to be late in 1948. Notice that Tommy arrived in the spring - we were now 5!

This is aphoto I used on a web page many years ago about Willow #3; here is the caption from that time:

“Notice building and cars and background - Spring 1949
Back row (left to right): Donnabelle Shirbroun, Bernice Pevestorf, Joan Bowman, Beverly Woods, Pat
Thomas, Bill Smith
Middle row: Wilson Thomas, Jim Tolsdorf, Dick Hunter, Judy Tolsdorf, Bob Hunter, Charolette
Shirbroun, Shirley Woods
Front row: Jane Lovell (?)(blonde girl), Gary Hunter on right, in front of Shirley”

Our teacher for 4th, 5th and 6th Grades was Inez Shirbroun, wife of Speedy, the local Coon Rapids Radio repairman, and soon to be Television guru. Since our school sat on a hill, he put up an antenna on Thursday nights and picked up the WOI-TV, Ames, signal from about 60 miles to the east. We got to go watch the Lone Ranger, in black and white, of course, small screen - but it was our first exposure to television. It was a couple of years after that before we were able to have one in our home - and all three channels!!! ;-)

In the meantime, this is what I constructed and played with… inside, on carpet... Lincoln logs made the outline. I created the cars out of plaster of paris, in rubber molds, wheels inserted while wet. I still have a couple of them, somewhere, in a box.

Two different views, outside, that also shows more of the yard around the east side of the house. I was quite into architecture at the time. Constructed each building out of wood. The large 'cattle shed' on the right was modeled after the real one my Dad constructed across the road, south of the barn... looks just like it. Proportions are a 'bit' off from rest of buildings, but... made at different times, for different reasons. By the way, the house was a very modern design, for the times....  ;-)

P.S. Really amazing these photos survived!!! ;-)


See  you down the road… ;-)