Grandma Cora

I am very sure that Jeanne knows a lot about Greandma Cora.  I will try to get more information later.  On the back of the picture are the words "Grandma Cora."

Bernard Badanes

Here is what Jeanne thinks about this picture.  She thinks it is Bernard Harry Badanes who worked his way up from this drugstore to be the president of MeKesson Robbins.  What do you think?  Possible?

Large Group of People

Jeanne is not sure at all who these folks are.  She thinks the woman sort of sitting in the furthest right bottom spot may be Elaine Badanes, Al's Mother.

Al's Sisters

OK, folks, I think I have the lowdown on this picture.  Jeanne thinks it's Al's sisters, Eileen and Jeanne.  (My Jeanne told me a lot about these two, but I need to get her back in here to say it again.)

Christmas Tree

Here's what I can make out on the back;  "Christmas Tree on . . . . Ave.  First year were . . . 1905"

Distinguished Man

Once again from the Badanes Collection. On the back it names the photography company from Cincinnati.  Know him?

Family Outing

I believe this picture is from the Badanes Family.  Anybody know anything?

Jeanne, 5 Years Old

On the back of this picture it says, "Jeanne, 5 years old."
I'm pretty sure this is not Jeanne Dick, and I can't remember who the other, older Jeanne was.  Help?
I got a message from Betsy that she does not have a google account so she sent me some information.  She says, "The Jeanne is Dad's (Al's) sister who died at age 31.)  She says my Jeanne is named after her.  Thanks Betsy.

The Girl

Don't know this girl.  In what I think is Badanes Collection.

The House

Don't know whose house this is.  It was in a collection of photos that I think could be called the Badanes Collection.  Anybody know this house?  Betsy commented about this house.  I am going to write it the way she said it.  "The picture of the house I believe is where Al's Granny and Aunt Marie lived.  Later Al moved there when his mother died . . . and Marie's husband Hoff.  They rented one or two other floors."  I think Betsy meant that Uncle Hoff lived there, too.

Boat Ride

I think this is a picture of some of the Badanes family.  Nor sure.  Help me.

Connie?

I think this is a picture of Connie as a child.  Not sure when or where or even if it's her.  I think it is.  Help Badanes Bunch.

A Wiswell

Again, I don't know who this is.  On the back it says Wiswell.  Maybe somebody in the Badanes Bunch could help us out with this one.

I don't know who this is.  Maybe somebody from the Badanes Bunch could help.  On the back in cursive lettering is the name Wiswell.  

I really don't know who this is.  A wild guess would be Aunt Maude with Bruce riding the horse.

Here's what I think.  I think the woman on the left is my Grandmother, Delsie Warnock.  I don't know who the man is.  The middle woman is Aunt Maude, and the woman on the right is Aunt Ethel.  I'm pretty sure.  Aunt Maude lived with Nana. (Our name for our Grandmother)  Aunt Ethel lived in the same town, Reedley, Ca., but had her own house.  I think she was married once, but I don't know what happened to her husband.  She also had a different last name which I can't remember.

I'm not sure who this is.  If I had to make a guess, I would guess it is Aunt Maude and somebody.  Anybody got any ideas?

This is a picture of my Mother.  Don't know what I've told you about her.  Her name was Ola Joyce. Her maiden name was Warnock.  I'm guessing this is a picture of me.

Al & Connie's Wedding

Oh, my!  Oh, my!  This is a true treasure.  This is a Wedding Book for Al and Connie's wedding.  I'm not going to take a picture of every page.  On the inside cover it says in bold letters, "The Frank Herschede Co."  8 Fourth St. West, Cincinnati, Ohio.  The book is called, "Our Wedding Memories."  The book has a copyright date of 1940.  The wedding was held on July 23, 1943, between Albert Wiswell Badanes and Corinne Claire Stollmaier.  It was in Trinity Church in Boston, Mass.
Do you know what I have decided to do?  I'm going to copy each page of the book.  It is beautiful.  I will also promise you I will put the book in a plastic cover to protect it.

I still think it is going to be nicer if I scan each page in the book.  Remember, you can click on the page and make it larger.

Is this beautiful or what!

I'm sorry, I am cutting off a little of the right hand side, but I think you can get the idea of what it is saying.
There were not a lot of guests at the wedding, but there sure were a lot of gifts.  Notice the check in front of each gift.  I have to believe that was Connie checking them off as she sent the Thank You card.

Nana on Vacation

I'm not sure you can see this very well.  It is a little picture of our Grandmother, Nana.  It says she is in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater, a souvenir from Hollywood, California.  I assume it was on a vacation of some sort.  What is interesting to me is that Nana looks pretty much like a school teacher even on vacation.  I wonder what the papers are in her arm.

Beautiful Mother

I adore this picture.  It is our Mother at what appears to be a very much younger age.  Let me guess, why not, who knows, I'm guessing late teens.  Isn't she gorgeous.  I often think what was her childhood like, what was school like for her, was she happy.  I do know she did not have a Father and I know she grew up in a home with some pretty puritanical women.  I just hope she was as happy as she looks in this picture.

Greeley State Teacher's College

This picture has the title "The Training School-Teacher's College-Greeley."  I had always heard it called just the Greeley State Teacher's College.  I do know it was in Greeley, Colorado.  I wish I had asked Nana more about this.  I'm pretty sure Nana went to school here.  What I don't know is:  how long did she go there; did she graduate from here; did she get a credential from here;  did she teach in Colorado before she moved to California; did California accept her work from this college; etc.  I think she would have attended here after my Grandfather, her husband Bruce, died.  How did she pay for this college work?  Where did she stay while she went here?  And, many, many more questions.  For now, I have to let it alone.  The only thing I think I know is that she went here at some point for some time.  I am guessing that Aunt Maude went here too, but that is pure conjecture.  I love you Nana and Aunt Maude.  By the way, sometimes I mention Aunt Phyllis.  She was Nana and Aunt Maude's sister.  There was another sister, Aunt Ethyl.  Their maiden name was Hamblen.  When Aunt Phyllis married her married name was Magee.  Aunt Ethyl was Ethyl Reynolds I think.  It makes me think she married a man named Reynolds, but I don't think I ever knew him.  Aunt Maude lived with Nana all her life I think, certainly after my grandfather died.  Aunt Ethyl lived by herself in Reedley in a tiny little house.  She never socialized with the rest of us.  Not sure why.  I never knew about any hostility there.  I used to go over to her house once in a while.  This would have been during my Junior High years and my freshman year at Reedley High School.  (The Junior High School was called General Grand Junior High School.  It was a beautiful old school house.  I'm guessing somebody condemned it for school use and while I went there we were housed in the local armory while our new school was built.  I think I spend one year in the new building, probably 8th grade.)  I think the building was sold to some church or other.

Rollie in Sunday Best

This is a picture of me in my Sunday best.  I am standing in front of what I would guess is a Chrysler.  My Dad would buy the Chrysler from Uncle Glenn and Aunt Phyllis after they were a few years old.  I'm guessing it was a good deal for both parties.  I'm sure they took good care of the car.

Nana's Back Yard on Sunday Afternoon

I did not know I had this picture.  I think it is one that Larry sent me recently.  What a wonderful picture. This is a picture of all the cousins on Mother's side of the family.  I am in the back.  Larry is in front of me to my right.  Allyn is to my left.  The two girls in front are Linda and Sue, Allyn's sisters.  There is an extra boy in the picture.  I can't remember his name.  Uncle George and Aunt Helen had him for a while, I think with the idea of maybe adopting him. However, he went away.  We would go over to Nana's house for "dinner" which was actually lunch after church.  Some Sundays it was at Nana's house and some Sundays it was at Grandma and Grandpas house.  We would play in the back yard here.  My memories of this time are very pleasant, although I don't remember much about them. 

 

Bruce

This is Bruce, Mother's brother.  Not sure how much I've told you about him.  He was short, fiesty and strong.  He worked hard all his life.  He had a cleaners in Reedley and I think did ok.  I think he ended his life in Berkeley where he had another cleaners.  Our family, particularly Dad and his family, was always very judgmental about Bruce.  He drank and I think he smoked.  At some point, he and his wife broke up and we all knew it was because of his carousing.  I was not so much a part of that because I drank too and Bruce, Allyn and I used to drink quite a bit together.  I did not make it to his funeral.  The last time I saw him I think was at Mother's funeral.

The Crew

Well, here we are.  This is the Roland Dick family, minus Jeff.  The other two are Aunt Helen, my mother's sister and her son Allyn, my first cousin.  I'm guessing this is a Sunday afternoon at Nana's house.  For many years we went to Nana's house for Sunday afternoon meal.  Again, maybe I am about five years old, which would make this somewhere around 1945.

A Hamblen?

I honestly wish I knew who this was.  It looks like a pretty primitive house.  I am going to take a wild guess that it is one of the Hamblens.  Do you know?

Bruce and Nana

I know for sure this is Bruce, my Mother's brother and his mother, my grandmother, Delsie Warnock.
We called our grandmaother, "nana."

Bruce

Now this was one tough man.  My Mother's brother, Bruce.  Here he is in the Army during the Second World War.  He drove a tank on a desert in Africa where Rommel was after them.  (Please don't quote my history here.)  The story is told that Bruce was actually shot with the bullet going through his short collar and he was not hurt.  I've always thought of Bruce as a troubled soul, first growing up without a father and then the war.  But, he survived and I think lived well into his 70's.
I loved him a lot.

Ingals, Kansas

This is another one of those precious ones.  On the back of this picture is written in my Grandmother's handwriting, "here we lived in Ingals Kans."  First, I have never heard of Ingals, Kansas.  Second I have to believe it is somewhere near Hillsboro, Kansas.  Third, it looks pretty desolate,  Could it be during the dust bowl just before then decided to move to California during the Grapes of Wrath movement?  Wow.  What a place to live.  If it is the place where they lived when my Dad was small, they sold it just before they came to California for $10,000 to a relative of theirs.  I'm not sure how many acres they had, but they simply could not make a go of it on this farm.  I think if you enlarge this and look carefully you will see two people leaning on the car.  Grandma and Grandpa?  I went to the blog and enlarged the picture and I'm sure it is Grandma and Grandpa.  I cannot get over how desolate this looks.

Unknown

No idea who this is.  Do you know?

Larry and Rollie

Larry and Rollie

Handsome Larry

Another beautiful Larry picture.

Larry

A nice picture of Larry.

Mother and Me

This is a pictsure of my Mother and me.  I look to be about three years old which would have made this about 1943.  I don't recognize the house in back although I would bet it was taken in Reedley.  

The Boys

This is a picture of Larry and me.  I am almost certain it was at Grandma and Grandpa's house on
Kleinsassor Street in Reedley.  Again, maybe late 1940's?

Mother on the Piano

Larry, help me out here.  I really believe this was Mother after Dad was gone.  Maybe she was in the deep center of her illness?  The music is certainly still classical.  When you do this blog the way I am doing it, a little at a time, with gaps of time inbetween, sometimes you forget what you have said and what you haven't.  Here, I'll just say that Mother was one of the finest musiciona/pianists I have ever known.  Years and years she played in churches and other places.  When Dad left, she went to one of the Claremont Colleges to study piano and then really became a great pianist.  I can't tell you which ones, but whenever I hear some piece of classical music, I think of Mother because it was one of the ones she played often.  There is much more to her story, but will save it for later.

Mother Again

Although this is a pretty wacky little picture, I am still pretty certain it is Mother.

Mother

This picture is so sweet it almost makes me cry.  This is Mother, I assume in High School or Jr. High School, ready for a dance.  It had to be in Reedley.  

The Warnock Kids

A sweet picture of Mother, Aunt Helel and Bruce.  On the back it says Sanford, Colorado.  I think this was wher they were living when their Father died of the flu.  It was pretty tough on them as well as their Mother, Nana, when their father died.  By the way, his name was Bruce as well.