A few other Christmas '63 photos

Here's that other photo I mentioned being taken at the same time as the one in my previous post.  Daddy had his film developed as slides.  I recently bought an Epson V370 scanner so I could scan some of his slides.  I've done those from 1963 and '64, so far.  There was a big snow sometime in December of '63 before Christmas,

and here's one more slide from Christmas of me, Steven, Jeff and Greg, the living room rug, the parquet floor, the piano, and some of our presents.  And our matching pajamas:

It's snowing heavily in Pine Bluff right now, which is how I'm able to take a few minutes to post these photos.  No customers at the Recycling Center yet.

Trulock Brothers Christmas 1963, NaNa, Zeke

Our last Christmas at the farm.  Arch was born on October 23rd of that year.  Apparently, another person (probably our dad) was taking a picture from the left (your left).  This one was taken by our maternal grandmother, Elner King Miller.  We called her NaNa, pronounced Na-Naw.  That's her in the picture below, visiting Hawaii in 1973. The date, not quite visible in the top right corner, is June 6, 1973.  That's exactly one year after the sudden death (stroke or heart attack) of my paternal grandmother, Frances Andrews Trulock.  We called her MiMi. 

 

 

And this is Steven's dog Zeke (1974-1986) wearing a pair of Mother's rose-colored glasses in the yard at the River House, probably in 1980 or 81.  Steven brought Zeke back from a trip to Florida he made after he graduated from high school in 1974.  Apparently Marc Cronin and Buddy Brown, also native Pine Bluffians, were in Florida at that time, too, since they later came back to Arkansas with Zeke's brothers, Strider and Prince.  Steven hitchhiked back from Florida sometime in June of '74 (when I was taking the physics class at UALR) with his new puppy.

Cactus Vick card and Costa Rica photo 1974

Sometime in '73 or '74, I got my official Cactus Vick Square Shooters' card.  I was about 19 at the time, hanging out with Mike Oldner and James Pascale, among others.  I don't recall the circumstances of obtaining the card.  Cactus Vick  may have had his little kids' carnival thing at Jefferson Square in Pine Bluff, and I picked up the card there.  Or maybe I ordered it through the mail, which would be something I'd have done as a gotta-be-clever 19-yr-old. My sense of humor hasn't changed much since then.

In April of '74 I went to Costa Rica with my father and his friend Joe Hardin, from Grady.  Daddy and some other Arkansas guys invested in a farm in Costa Rica and tried to grow rice instead of bananas.  It enabled Dad to go to Costa Rica about once a year for 6 or 8 years.  Even after the rice farming didn't work out and the investors sold the land, Dad still went down there a few more times just on pleasure trips.  I got to go with him in '74.  We three gringos spent three nights (with 4 Costa Ricans) in a cabin on the square-mile uninhabited Cano Island, now a nature preserve where overnight stays are not permitted. (I think the Ranger Station is at the location of the former cabin.) I hope to return to Cano and go snorkeling next April, the 40th anniversary of our trip.  The photo below was taken at the home of one of Dad's Costa Rican friends near San Jose.  Joe Hardin is the man in the cap.  He ran against Orval Faubus for governor once, and has a lock & dam named after him.

More Maui photos

Above:  the wharf in front of the Pioneer Inn.  Below:  Pat and Jessica, the masseuse who had given me a massage earlier in the day.  This is also in the area of the wharf, where various booths selling stuff are located, but the booths were mostly closed at night.  Oh, yeh, Pat has his hand on his black "English Lab" named Blue.

 Above:  Rachel and me at the Hyatt Hotel's Luau.  She's one of several young women who were vacationing from Dublin, Ireland who were renting rooms at Pat's Place.  Below:  That's Rachel's brother on her right and a friend of his next to Pat in front, and Donita in the bow tie.  For more info, see my Maui journal writings at my Ink On His Face blog.

Some Maui 2008 photos

Pat and one of the guests at the Lahaina self-service B&B he managed.  Foreground: clothes line.  Background:  shower.  Not visible to the left of the picture:  screened in communal kitchen.

Above:  Looking out my bathroom window, I could see the roof of the screened-in kitchen, and the general disarray and disrepair of the place.  Below, Pat is coming out of my private (half) bathroom into my private loft area that he kindly arranged for me to use while I was there. 

 

Above:  my sleeping loft, which looked out onto a church and its parking lot and mountains beyond that.  At one time there was a kind of built-in couch where the white paint turns to brown along the back wall, but it had become merely a wooden bench that I stepped up on to get into the loft by the time I stayed there.  Below:  This is the entrance to the building where my room was, with stairs just to the left inside going up to my room.  This bottom floor was a sort of garage or storage room with a gravel floor, and more junk stored in it.

 

 The bearded fellow looked like Pat is why I took this photo.  I thought it was Pat at first, but realized my mistake as I got closer.  This is the park-like area along the waterfront adjacent to the Pioneer Inn and the little Lahaina branch of the Maui public library.  The photo below shows what the bearded fellow would have been seeing in front of him.  There are surfers out in the surf waiting (you can see their heads) and hoping for a big wave.  The stone ruin/patio is what remains of some once-significant public building.

This is the Pioneer Inn viewed from the parking area near the wharf.  Previous photos above where taken in the area where you can see the tops of palm trees.  Yeh, it's not a big place.
 

4th of July 1988

I believe the motel was called the Stagecoach Motel, at St. Johns and IH35 in Austin.  The occasion was a 4th of July visit by Mother and Glenn.  The year was 1988.  Mother had both a point-and-shoot 35mm camera and a Kodak/Polaroid that made instant prints.  This is one of the instant prints, the previous post is one of the 35mm ones from the same trip.

Nerds posing as Nerds

On the University of Texas at Austin campus, July 1988.  DWT and Glenn Farrell King, who is a first cousin of my mother's.  She took the picture, but her choice of campus architecture could have been much better, don't you think?