Frank/Marilyn Coyne: 1940s to 1961
(New Orleans, Texas, Massachusetts, Japan and Idaho)
Japan: 1955-1957
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Mom left for Japan to join Dad at Tachikowa with Susan (2) and Frank (3) Â in November 1954. Â She traveled by train from New Orleans to Seattle, then sailed from Seattle to Yokohama on the USNS H.B. Freeman, a former troop carrier. Â
Housing at Tachikowa AFB was still a problem–we lived in a temporary house for a time, which Mom hated (apparently things froze the the bathroom). Â We then moved into a larger concrete apartment on base. Â We had a maid in the new house, and it was large enough to ride bikes inside when Mom and Dad were out. Carolyn was born in November of 1955. Â
Japan: Dad's Color Slides
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Dad had a good camera in Japan, and he took most of the pictures here from Texas and later. Â Mom took the pictures from the 1940s shown above. All of these pictures were black and white prints.
Color slides were expensive, and Dad took a series in Japan in the early 1950s. Â It was not until the early 1970s that Dad (and Mom) began using color film.