Families of the Lounge

[cm289]

My grandad (left) and his brother in the 1930s-

And here's my grandmother's high school graduation photo from 1933-
(She just celebrated her 101st birthday last month!)

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[MisterCairo]

Tell me my youngest, Ailsa, left, isn't my twin (the poor wee thing):

 

[MisterCairo]

The dance pics were about three years ago now. Ailsa still goes to dance, Sinead has advanced into theatre studies with our local Playmakers group:

 

[MisterCairo]

Our eldest, Sinead, who is nine, at a fun event last summer sponsored by my base's Military Family Resource Centre during my deployment. I love her smile in this:

 

[MisterCairo]

A great shot with an even great smile from Ailsa, seven, at the same event:

 

[Panadora]

Reminds me of this - my brother and his oldest

For all the nice vintage photos it might be good idea to use the vintage family thread instead
http://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/vintage-family-photos.5088/

 

[MisterCairo]

For my brother Michael's 65th birthday, I had a collage of photos of him, brother John, our dad, my mum (his step-mum) and his son Jason on canvass, I think it was 18 by 36 inches stretched and framed.

I believe this is the earliest known photo of my two brothers together. Michael was a fairly wee baby so this is 1951:

 

[MisterCairo]

My dad, Michael in hat and John. I love the look on my dad's face!

This was in England, they sailed over (yes, sailed - I have the ship's details somewhere and will update) to visit my grandmother and my dad's ex's parents:

 

[MisterCairo]

If this doesn't scream 1950s' North American kid I don't know what would:

 

[carouselvic]

GD # 2 at rodeo tonight

 

[Asienizen]

My new bride on the back of my little Cub that we use to cruise the old streets of Hanoi. Thank God she likes my taste for vintage things.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Hell, yes!

 

[MisterCairo]

Another Christmas pic of my older brothers, I'm guessing 1958 or 1959.

I can read "Frontier Land", "Minibrix" and "Arabian Nights". And am I dreaming, or is that a fishtank on a stand in the old fireplace?

 

[MisterCairo]

The license plate is Ontario 1956 (until 1973 the physical plates were replaced each year, alternating between blue background with white letters and white with blue letters (the latter is what 1973 plates were, and that remains our colour scheme to this day - you can still see the odd car with original '73 plates still being used!).

Any ideas on the cars folks?

 

[MisterCairo]

If characters in an Austin Powers movie showed up like this, you'd grown about the clichéd outfits, but no, this was Christmas 1971.

My mum had come back from working as Carol Brady's stunt double, my brother Michael had failed an audition to replace Robert Plant in Led Zeppelin, my sister was possessed by whatever it was in the exorcist, and my clothes, and holding that doll, I'm literally lost for words:

 

[MisterCairo]

My brother Michael, portrait taken and printed by my father, about 1964:

 

[MisterCairo]

42 years later as best man at my wedding:

 

[MisterCairo]

The only known photo of my eldest brother John and I together. I'd guess I'm about eight months old, so this is about February 1968. He moved out of the house and from Toronto to Thunder Bay, Ontario, about a year later. I never saw him again. He was murdered in 1972:

 

[MisterCairo]

My kindergarten class photo from 1972. Only one kind of kindergarten back then (no Junior K, or JJ K), and it was only half a day (I was an afternooner, see the "kgn pm").

Let's play "spot Mr. Cairo"!

Also, is it just me, or while half my class is smiling, does the other half look like they're being booked into jail?

 

[Trenchfriend]