Comments for Riddle - Young Family

Comment on DVD 20111215 by Ray

Ray — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:29:30 +0000

The Peach Day parade looks to be the summer of 1959. Car dealers lend out their newest models to pull floats. The newest cars I saw were a ’59 Impala, and a ’58 Ford. I don’t think those were shots of Bear Lake – the shape & terrain is wrong – Logan Canyon? There were some clips from a picnic in the park in Box Elder Canyon.

Cross-country trip to Chicago? There’s a clip showing “Little America”, out in the Wyoming wasteland.

Don running around in the city park in Ogden.

I vaguely remember us taking Dad to the SLC airport, and putting him on a flight.

First snow on Hawthorne Dr. in ’59. M.E. pulling Don on a sled (he always got the special treatment – the little SNOT!)

Scenic lake – definitely not Bear Lake – too pretty – on the way to the Grand Tetons.

Another lake – southern Idaho?

Don (little snot) being helped along the Slip ‘N’ Slide (brand new invention then) by M.E.

Ray rolling a snowman, supervised by Casper.

Either Mr. Robinson (next door), or Mr. Meeker (up the street) pulling kids on sled behind car.

Little Don wailing a cherry tree branch into submission.

I believe that was Thanksgiving at Mike & Doroty’s in San Pedro.

Elks Fourth Of July picnic in Box Elder Canyon park – Ollie waving an Oly.

Elks picnic – Ray getting beat by a big kid in the foot race – up in a tree (for which I later caught Hell from Dad).

Comment on Old Photos Pre-WWII by Georgia Brown

Georgia Brown — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:10:01 +0000

Can hardly wait to fill in some of the gaps of our family line. Still a lot more to do tracing the geneology of our families…am looking forward to the names, etc of your photos.

Comment on DVD 20110824 by Don Riddle

Don Riddle — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:34:17 +0000

#1 Looks like “Little” Bill, with Phil before he went to Viet Nam for the first time (“65?), maybe that’s M.E., Ray and Larry on the front yard in front of the first Econoline pickup, looks like Billy with Casper, me and Kent Robertson (next door neighbor, my best friend), Gram on the driveway and early skateboarders coming down Hawthorne Dr…..maybe Ray is one of them? By the way, I first felt about Kent the way that Ray felt about me: “…annoying little brat….: Of course Ray felt that way about me all the way into my teen years.

#2 A trip to Bryce Canyon, Southern Utah; me and Kent Robertson again; looks like Thiokol (place where Dad worked); looks like that’s Jim and Walker Keenan at the end.

#3 Starts off with Billy in the front yard; a pool party in the backyard: Ray sitting, me clowning around in the pool, maybe with the Robertson girl (can’t remember her name); the other Robertson kids (can’t remember the name of the older brother) Debbie also; maybe Mom and Gram in the background; looks like the annual parade in Ogden (Pioneer Days?).

Comment on DVD 20110810a by Don Riddle

Don Riddle — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 03:00:21 +0000

Well, I recognize the neighborhood in Brigham. This was probably the first winter after we moved there….that’ll be up to the older sibs to confirm. I think the first segment was the entrance to Box Elder Canyon and then looking back to the west toward that drive in movie theater on the south side of town…..the other stuff looks like a trip to Washington state (“It’s The Water”), maybe Bremerton? Those people don’t look familiar at all.