Growing up

War Years and Martha

Just as the depression before it, the war had an effect on everyone.
I came along just as the war ended. I was not quite a baby boomer and certainly not one in family atttitudes. My parents had been shaped by the depression not the war and lived a life of thrift as if any moment hard times might return.

Dick & Carolin 1944

Some Birthday photos

Two Little Wagners at Play

I thought both of these were cute series.

This didn't enlarge on the previous post so I'll try it again.

New Baby, Carolin

Sometimes it's hard to figure how to arrange everything into a smooth narative. Of course, with the blog format it is all backwards if one has not followed it post by post.
This page should probably have been grouped with the previous post.

The old back porch in the upper right, you can see how small it was, that is the railing in the lower left corner of the photo. Later it was removed and a nice deck replaced it. I liked to sit out there.

I don't know why she sent them off to San Francisco, perhaps they were having a spat.

Family of Three

This house looks very different than the one I knew. No hedge, few plants of any kind. The porch and chimney had to be removed. I'm not sure when it was done. I would guess from photos it was about 1940.

I loved to be the one to burn trash in the incinerator. A cause of air pollution it was banned. Dick seemed to think it was fun to climb on.