Weblog #4..Family photos, assorted other photos, music, stories, information and more...: October 2005

Monday, October 31, 2005

My third grade class photo, Lincoln Elementary School, Pomona...

My third grade class photo, Lincoln Elementary School, Pomona, California...I am pictured on the top row, third student from the left...

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Pomona Valley YMCA, downtown Pomona...

This the Pomona YMCA where I had a membership as a kid...It was built in 1922 and is located on North Garey Avenue in Pomona, California....

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My grandfather (early photo)...

Early photo of my grandfather, Joseph M. Fiske, who was born is a small town in Missouri called Moorseville...He was a long time conductor for the Rock Island Railroad which was based in the the mid west, mainly Iowa...

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This is Bob Seagren at age 13, this is the age when I knew him before he became a big celebrity and a Gold Medalist in the Pole Vault in the Summer Olympics when he was at age 21...However, it was actually his older brother, Art Seagren, who was my age and my friend from school...They lived only a few blocks from our house on Elaine Street in Pomona, California...

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Early photo of my grandmother, Berenice Fiske...She lived most of her life in the mid west before the family moved to California in her later years....

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My sister and brother-in-law with their newborn baby girl, Sandra...They were living in Ontario, California when this photo was taken...

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Me, at the age of eight years, Jane Russell`s swimming pool, Sherman Oaks...

This is me, at age 8 here, in movie star Jane Russell`s swimming pool...The family was at Miss Russell`s home in Sherman Oaks visiting with my cousin, Josephine, who was the actress` live-in maid servant, at the time...

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The two ladies in the middle are my mother on the left, next to my grandmother... And photo was taken not too long before my grandmother had passed away at the age of 89...Photo was taken in front of their apartment on North Towne Avenue in Claremont, California...

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From left to right: my brother, John Robert, at age 16 here, myself, at age eleven here, and my brother-in-law, Kenneth Hadley, at age 21 here, at Newport Beach, California where we used to go every August for vacation...

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My grandmother, Berenice Fiske, on the right with a friend visiting, in front of our second residence in Pomona, at 404 W. Alvarado Street...I was taking the photo at eleven years of age...

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My sister and brother-in-law, shortly after they were married, in front of our residence on Kenoak Drive in Pomona...I was taking the photo...What you see across the street is the vacant space remaining after all the houses had just been removed to make way for the San Bernardino Freeway...

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My mother in front of our residence at 418 Kenoak Drive in Pomona...I was taking the photo...

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My fourth grade class photo, in grammer school, Pomona, California...Lincoln Elementary School...I am pictured on the front row, second student from the right...

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Family photo in front of our first Pomona residence at 418 Kenoak Drive, Pomona, California...From left to right: my grandmother, Berenice Fiske, my sister at age 16 here, my greatgrandmother, my mother, myself (in front) at age 8 here, a couple of women, then my brother, John, at age 12 or 13 here, and my grandfather, Joe Fiske, on the end, and holding an orange...

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This is me, at age 12 here, with my sister, at age 21 here, at Clearwater Beach, near Tampa, Florida...My brother-in-law was taking the photo...

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This is me now...Photo was taken in Las Vegas, Nevada...

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This is me at age 13 here while on a home leave from Brown Military Academy in Pacific Beach, California, a suburb of San Diego...Photo was taken in our backyard at 404 W. Alvarado Street in Pomona, California...

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An early photo of my grandfather, Joe Fiske, holding my mother, Mercedes, with my grandmother...Phillipsburg, Kansas...

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This is my greatgrandfather, Frank Stinson and his younger brother in the late 1800`s...This photo is actually made out of tin....

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An early photo of my mother, Mercedes...she was born in Phillipsburg, Kansas as Mercedes Fiske....

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This is me at eleven years old at Knott`s Berry Farm in Buena Park, California...my mother was taking the photo...

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Sunday, October 30, 2005

Early family photo..from left to right, my grandfather holding my mother, Mercedes, my grandmother, Berenice Fiske, three more people, then my greatgrandmother, Alice B. Stinson, another woman, then my greatgrandfather, Frank Stinson...Phillipsburg, Kansas...

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Saturday, October 29, 2005

My older brother, John, on the left at age 18 here and me on the right, at age 13 or 14 here, in front of our residence in Pomona, California at 404 W. Alvarado Street...We had just gotten out of church when this photo was taken...

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This is me on the right at age eleven here with a neighborhood friend and another friend was taking the photo..Location is in front of our garage where we lived at 404 West Alvarado Street in Pomona, California...Our second residence in Pomona...