Legacy Idaho 1950s – The Times of our Lives

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NO 1940s

Wedding 1950

Texas 1950s

Mass. 1954

NO 1954

Japan 1950s

Japan 1950s

Idaho 1960s

NH 1960s

NJ 1960s

NO 1967-68

NJ 1968-72

NO 1972-74

Idaho: 1957 - 1961

These Idaho pictures are arranged into 5 different albums, one for each year. Click on the arrows to the side of each picture to scroll through the different yearly albums. Click on a cover picture to see a slide show for that year.

Idaho 1961

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Our final year in Idaho–In the spring, Frank has finished 4th grade, Susan 3rd, and Michael is 1.

Dad was then transferred to Pease AFB, and he and mom begin planning our long trip to New Hampshire via New Orleans.

Mom and Dad had not seen their parents since 1954–7 years.

Idaho: 1957

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In 1957, Dad was transferred to Mt. Home AFB, Idaho. We traveled by plane from Japan to Seattle, via the Aleutians. In Seattle, Dad bought a 1956 Ford, and we drove to Idaho.

Mt. Home was a misnomer: southern Idaho was mostly flat desert, with only sagebrush growing. We did vacation in northern Idaho many summers, at McCall and Sun Valley. And the Snake River Dam near our home provided picnic areas and fishing.

Idaho 1958

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Lots of fishing and vacation pictures. The fishing may have been from the Snake River Dam near where we lived; the vacations are northern Idaho.

Several pictures show the small fenced in yard of our house, with mom’s garden. For Christmas 1958 Dad made Susan a dollhouse, and gave Frank his old electric train, which nana had sent him.

Idaho 1959

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Frank’s first communion, another northern Idaho vacation (we rented the trailer), and Carolyn turns 4.

Idaho 1960