1965 - 3 kids in a hole

All three kids in a sand castle we are losing to the tide. Charlie is working hard to repair it. How many of us have tried to save a sand castle against the approaching tide? I have! But all three of us are standing in the hole on Aptos Beach

Sandy looks SOOOO much older than Pam

1965 - Snoozing on the beach

Mom snoozing on the beach in her two piece bathing suit. It looks like she has got her transistor radio, maybe listening to the Giants game? A library book, looks pretty old but this was over 40 years ago. The Zwisslers are down. For the week? For the day? Gayle playing something with Karen with Pam looking on.

I remember the woven straw mats. They worked pretty well. They could still be in my mom's basement....

1965 - Pam in party dress

Pam is going to a party with her party dress, hair bow, white socks and mary janes. It's summer in this picture in the front yard of the wilhaggin home

1965 - In the surf

I think that's mom in the surf, not entirely sure but the haircut looks right and I vaguely remember her having a swimsuit like that. Maybe Karen Z on the left? Looks wild and a lot of fun!

1965 - Thin mom at the beach

Wow, mom sure looks slim in this picture. We are again at the beach in Aptos. Mom loved to go on walks at the beach...and we like it too!

1965 - Where are we going?

We're going somewhere, maybe the start of a trip? To where? As usual, we are dressed nicely. Charlie in his cool surfer stripe shirt. I do remember that rainbow striped shirt. I've always liked rainbow colored things. Looks like Charlie and I have things to 'do' in the car. Not sure how Pam's stick horse fits in. Also, I like more than two years older than Charlie. In the front yard of Wilhaggin home.

1965 - Pam in the surf

Here we are back in Aptos, Pam is in the water, the surf looks rather wild. But not as strong as the north shore of Oahu!

1965 - and again

What do you think we were up to?

1965 - Too cute by half

The kids are trying to have a cute pose here. Results could have been used on a halidya card. Pam, Charlie and Sandy in front of that same doorway. I used to really like those satin hair ribbons, I had them every color of the rainbox. And I used to be able to wear bangs, my hair was thicker...but not too much thicker. Again wearing a sweater and a pleated skit. I think I remember that white skirt.

1965 - On the way to Sunday School!

I think we are on our way to Sunday School in this picture. Pam look like it could be a Purim costume. We are dressed up, as usual, Charlie especially. I think that was one of the first sweater that mom made me. It looked like a bronzey brown but all of the filaments were all different colora, I thought it was quite cool. I seem to remember that skirt, the pleats would never lay right.

Paired with a picture of the entry now.

1965 - Thanksgiving in the new house

Pam in the family room/dining/kitchen of the Wilhaggin House. Looks like it could be Thanksgiving...might be 1964, just not sure. Looks like the cornucopia on the table. Those colonial style wall candle holders, where are they? I don't think my mom has them up any more.

I didn't get a chance to go inside when I visited in September but a peek in the back window shows that the cabinetry is the same.

1965 - Pam on the trike in front yard

Guess that was a tricycle. The trees are small, there are sidewalks and all of the shrubs are fairly new. The present owners said that the fruitless mulberry were gone by the time they got there in the late 70s. There are those junipers that Pam hated so heartily. Chilly and cloudy

Contrast with the front yard now. Too bad, I did not stand across the street to take a matching shot. The trees in the back are big and visible. Everything a lot more lush and shady.

1965 - Pam on bike

I'm thinking that this must be a tricycle because Pam's just in kindergarten but you sure can't tell from the picture. Sweet license plate there. Love the outfit, especially the turquoise leopard print pants. In the front of the Willhaggin house

1965 - Delia's lornette and hankie

My mother framed my great grandmother, Delia Zunder Weil's lace fan. Earlier than 1965. Then, as a companion piece, she framed her lornette (not sure about spelling, decorative glasses) and hankie as a companion piece. They still are in my mother's living room. I have always loved them.

1965 - Charlie driving a boat?

On this same boat trip maybe on the delta, I'm thinking it was the Hodges' boat but I don't really remember. Doesn't everybody look young. Bet Charlie enjoyed it a bunch

1965 - Three kids on the front step

Charlie, Pam and Sandy on the front step of the Wilhaggin home. Must be winter, looks chilly and the leaves are off the trees. Grass still green though (likely well fertilized with the chemicals du jour).

I remember the striped shirt and those red pants were the stretch pants with the stirrups.

Don't know what we are doing. Don't know what Sandy is holding in her hand, what's the white bar, can't be sure what position Pam is in.

Ideas?

1965 - Pam and Charlie in front yard in Wilhaggin

Wow, today we were looking at toddler pictures of Ilana. Pam, age 5, looks just like Ilana. Or does Ilana look like Pam. Especially the way they hold their body.

Charlie, again must be in Little League...see that could have been Danny and Ilana in that picture.

1965 - The redecorated living room

When we moved into the Wilhaggin home in 1964, my mother used an 'interior decorator' to buy new furniture for the living room. French Provincial or some such. The mural on the far wall was all the rage, not sure what it was supposed to be with it's turquoise and olive green hues. Actually there was a nice new dining room set that would eventually be in that far part of the room in front of the mural. With a china cupboard which will go against that bare wall on the left.

Actually, I am quite fond of these pieces, I liked the colors and the marble top tables. My mother still has a lot of these pieces in her overcrowded living room in Wesley Willows. The couch has been re-upholstered http://azure-turquoise.blogspot.com/2007/10/photoessay-157-my-son-and-rabbi.html. You can also see the round marble table in that picture over 40 years later. My mother still has the bronze dragon candlesticks and, of course, the gold watch from my great grandfather (Charles Weil)

The ensemble pretty new and raw in this picture, not everything is in place. Despite its dated colors and its audacity, I was quite impressed with the whole getup. My grandparent's baby grand piano would eventually be in the upper left.

My mother's living room was quite the deal.

1965 - Sandy on a boat

This could be 1965. Mom and Sandy and we're on a boat. Maybe on the delta? Don't remember whose boat. The Hodge's?

Susanna just came down here.
"I'm writing about this picture"
She says quickly "Oh, that's Ilana in Rockford"
"No", I say, that's ME

That family resemblance thang

Anyway, I have bangs.

1965 - Kids on the front lawn

Again 1964, because of the Arden Park home. In the front yard. I'm guessing the two bigger kids are Charlie and Mikey (Wohlleb) and the two younger kids are Pam and Eddie (Wohlleb). The Wohllebs lived next door and had six kids. Tommy, Judy, Patty, Mikey, Jimmy, Eddie. When Dennis and I visited in September, we stopped by. Dr. Wohlleb (a dentist) was there, he was very frail. We did chat with him, he remembered mom and dad.