Travel Tuesday: Christmas Past

In a departure from exclusively posting photos I have taken, this post is entirely photos others have taken. All but one of these, is a scan from the over 1,600 slides my father collected over 60 years. 

My father, probably 1972. 

Before I was born. 

My two brothers, my sister, my aunt Edith and grandmother. 

My oldest brother.

My two brothers, long before my sister and I were born.

My sister and my middle brother.

The four of us. On the right hand corner of the top of the television is a tiny santa, I have that - at the last minute I plucked it out of the china cabinet at my father's house as we were turning the contents over to an estate sale company. I didn't realize until I scanned this slide, that it has been around as long as I have. 

Mom with a new hair dryer. The white artificial tree was bought the winter we lived in Phoenix, and put up many years. It was my father's favorite. 

On South Mountain in Phoenix the winter we lived there. 

My aunt Edith and my Mother, probably 1948 or 1949. 

My parents owned that end table all of their married life. When we cleaned out the house, no one wanted it. 

I have a couple of the ornaments that were on this tree 

Aunt Edith and my Grandmother 

My father and my oldest brother.

My mother, grandmother, Emma and Bill Baker in the first little house my father built on the farm.