1974

In the summer of 1974, Cindy, my siblings and I went to visit my Uncle in Snohomish, WA. My grandparents were out visiting from Carbondale, Kansas. We are standing in front of a 1967 Volkswagen Fastback. We are also standing in front of my Uncle's trailer. By that time, they insisted we call it a mobile home. Now, we like to call them pre-manufactured homes. How times change.

The Volkswagen was Cindy's first car. I taught her to use a standard transmission in that car. Four years later, we were living in that single wide pre-manufactured home when our first child was born.


Here is a picture of my grandpa, Preston. I understand that his friends called him Buck. He was my father's father. I could not imagine at the time I was taking his picture that Grandpa was standing in front of the first house my son Justin would live in. I remember Grandpa was a smoker. He rolled his own cigarettes. I never remember him smoking, just rolling.



This is a picture of me, and my siblings taken that same day. I was 17, Ralph was 16, Rick turned 15 that summer, Kathy was 12, and Doug was 11.