1966

1972

My mom & dad gave me a bunch of slides. I've scanned in a lot of them.

I'm not sure if this is Kirk or myself. This does give you a good view of our back yard at the Hazelton house.


I am on the left and Kirk is on the right. I'm guessing these pictures were taken sometime in July of 1972 - I would be 4 and Kirk would be 3.



Nice 70's outfits.


The old Hazelton house. This was the first house I remember. I remember it was hugh - bigger than our current house. It had shag carpets that you had to rake regularly and mirror tiles on the walls. I really miss this house. Unfortunately, US60 was built right behind us.


This looks like Easter 1972. Gotta love the candy.



Our kitchen had a bar with gold chairs.



Kirk and I are playing the water in the side yard. I'm guessing this was a broken water pipe and we were "helping" dad. I wish the picture was brighter.



Back in '72 you gave your kids guns. On the left side of the bed you will see my Charlie Brown lunch box. I still have this prominently on display in my office.


Now I think Kirk would kick my butt.

Goin' Fishin'

The family went to Heber, AZ last week and stayed at Bison Ranch. My mom and dad were able to join us for the first couple of days. We went fishin', shoppin', bikin', 4-wheelin' and hikin' - we all had a blast...

More Slides

I still have 100s of slides to go through... Here are a few more I found:

Slides...

John Warner Mattice, Mela's father, past away back in 1979. John was quite the photographer. Back in John's day (for some crazy reason) most pro-amateur and professional photographers took pictures on slides. John literally has 100s if not 1000s of slides that no one has looked at for years.

I have been dying to look at them and to digitize them into JPEGs. I have a back lit scanner with a slide adapter but it could only scan two slides at a time. This would take forever! So, this last weekend I tried something different...

I took my camera and set it up on a tripod. I got the slide projector and the screen setup. Then I pointed my camera (as best I could) directly at the screen. I took pictures of the slides as they were being displayed on the screen. It actually worked out pretty well. I still have 100s of slides to process.

Tell me what you think...

Sylvia, Mela & George are on the left.


Michelle

Baby Tricia with Mom.


Baby Tricia with John.


George in his scout uniform


We think Michelle with miscellaneous Perry kids.


Mela, George & Sylvia


Baby Michelle


The pictures below were not taken by John but they are priceless...
Doesn't my wife look hot!! She's the red head... dang I'm a lucky man.


I love the hair!

Jaedyn over time

Andrew Over Time

My boy is growing up.