My new hobby, as I mentioned in an earlier post, has been digitizing slide pictures, and I have looked at and cataloged over a thousand photos. [I won't be sharing all of them, but I do want to post a few that have been such fun to see again after 40+ years.] It was a time consuming task, but worth every minute I spent. Now I can see the old photos anytime I want, and I can bore my family whenever I can catch them! Wayne has enjoyed seeing them as much as I, and our children and their spouses have been interested in the ones of themselves as children. The grands have only been slightly curious to see the youthful pictures of their dad, aunt, or uncle.
Our weekend trips to Freeport were always fun... Daddy and Doug usually took Wayne fishing while the 'girls' (i.e. Mother, my sisters, nieces, and I) went shopping or just spent time together. Mother always baked a German chocolate cake for Wayne, and we often fried oysters or shrimp if the men didn't catch enough flounder or speckled trout for a fish fry. Sunday afternoon always came too soon, and Daddy would insist that we pack up and head back to Nac.
There was quite a snowfall on the SFA campus the winter of 1963. What fun we had playing in it! Snow is rare in East Texas, so everyone took advantage of the opportunity to have snowball fights, make snowmen, and some even (stupidly) were pulled with ropes behind their cars, sledding on sheets of cardboard or other apparatus. Call us chicken, but Wayne and I were more cautious, and were satisfied playing in and enjoying the beauty of the winter wonderland that weather had brought to SFA's campus.
Sunday on our Freeport weekends meant going to the historic Velasco First Methodist Church where I grew up, and in the '60's ladies still wore hats to church.
Surfside Beach 1963
Surfside Beach was a fun place, so Kay and Grant were ready to go to the beach with us. We had a great day, even tho' we sunburned--remember--this was before sunblock to protect your skin! One bummer was the seaweed that was still washing up on the sand as a result of Hurricane Carla which made landfall in Sept. 1961.
SFA homecoming was a big event in the '60's... We all dressed up to go to the game. The girls got new dresses or suits; mums, the corsage of choice, were presented to dates, by the guys who looked so handsome in their slacks and sport coats. Of course, girls wore dresses to class then, and only wore shorts or slacks if they were going someplace where that was the appropriate attire. How times have changed!
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I know I won't be able to resist adding a few more old pictures in another post or two before I return to present day posting. There was a wedding, and the children have to be featured!
