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1st Day of School 1947

This picture was taken in early September 1947 in our front yard on the corner of Wayland and Waddell Streets in the Clay Homes. We are suppose to be looking gloomy because it is the first day of school.
It was my very first day of school. I went to the first grade that year.

Left to right: Jeane Steele, Billy Somebody (who later moved to Gramling Street), Eddie Hunter (that's me), Frances Hunter, and Helen Steele.
After that school year, the next summer we moved in my grandfather, but we still went to the same school (Waterman Street School).

Benjamin and Banjamin Poster

Benjamin at Grant Park

My Daddy on the Prowl

My father Ed Hunter (1911-1988). Apparently these were taken during his courting days, a wild and crazy playboy by night and a Glover Machine Works apprentice by day. He is the one on the right in both pictures.
He went on to be a policemen.

Poor Folks (us) Eating Watermelon in Low Rent Projects

Eating watermelon with my sister Frances overlooking the mess. This picture was taken near our back door when we lived in the Clay Homes in the early 1940s.

In recent years the Clay Homes has been bulldozed away and the low income residents were replaced by yuppies slinging money all around. That is Gentrification!.

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Courting

c1936/37. This picture was taken during my parents' courting phase. Left to right: The first couple are my parents, Ed Hunter and Janie Petty; the second lady I do not know, I think her name might be Jonnie Rollins; the next lady is my mother's older sister, Opal Petty; and the next couple is Lois Carter and her date. I don't think her date in this picture was her future husband , Toy Moon, they probably had not met yet. Lois like Opal and Janie (and maybe Jonny Rollins) were from the hills of north Georgia who had come to Marietta to work.
They were young and then they married, multiplied, grew old and died, like we all will.

Benjamin (my grandson) and Me July 2016

Valley Forge

George Washington's Winter Quarters

Adan and Rocky, 1990, at the Valley Forge, Pa, Train Station.  I bet it wasn't there when American Revolutionary  Soldiers made the area their winter Winter Quarters

Benjamin's 3rd Birthday Party!

Throwback Thursday, 1965 NY World's Fair

Throwback Thursday: 1965 NY World's Fair.  In the right of center, near the bottom are three lovely women:  My two sisters Bonnie and Frances Hunter, and my Mama, Ethel America "Janie" Petty Hunter.

The second picture is Mama at the China Pavilion haggling over merchandise on display in the true spirit of dealing with street vendors.

The third picture is Janie with the Hudson River and Bear Mountain State Park behind her - and to her right, which is out of view is West Point.
And Bonnie at the Metropolitan Art Museum on 5th Avenue, NYC. 

And that's me behind the camera.

I was stationed in Lakehurst, New Jersey.  Frances drove them up.  They met me and we drove Carmel, NY, about sixty miles above New York City to visit with Mama's brother Roy for a couple of days.

Then the NY World's Fair.

Then, the next day I gave them a whistle stop tour of New York City.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Our grandson Benjamin

photo by his mother Sabrina

50 YEARS AGO TODAY

I Love You, Anna!

Throwback Thursday, Frances & Larry Bell Pak

Throwback Thursday.  This is my sister Frances Hunter in our front yard on Manget Street about 1954.  

Behind Frances you can see Larry Bell Auditorium and some of Larry Bell Park's ball fields.

Happy Birthday Frances!

Years Ago

This picture was taken in 1947,  Left to right:  Jeane Steel, Billy somebody who moved to Gramling Street, Eddie Hunter (me), Frances Hunter, and Helen Steel. 

I think the picture's purpose we were to look sad, which wasn't hard to do,  because it was the day of going back to school, after the summer break.  Except for me, it was my first crack at it.

As sad as it looks, here is something else to think about.  The picture was taken early September 1947.  It is less than 29 years and 11 months of being a 100 years old.

Now, that is sad!

Throwback Thursday: Adam and his late friend Daisy

2003: Adam Hunter  and his late friend/pet/daughter/confidant / Daisy.

Benjamin and Mommy and Daddy

Waiting on Mommy

Benjamin and Rocky sitting on the porch waiting on Mommy.

More Benjamin

Throwback Thursday: Rocky and Adam June 1979

Rocky looking at his new little Brother Adam, late May or early June 1979