Started with a 10 dollor deposit on a house in 1949 in Glen Rock. It was cheeper
to buy than to rent in Bayonne. We were not married as yet.
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148 Midwood Road
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Looking across the street
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The front yard
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Our clump of birch trees. Al hung a hammock there in the summer
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Princey #1
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Princey looking out
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We had the worse lawn - all dandelions
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and that chair attacked me
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| Our Wedding |
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| Al in the Glen Rock Police Department badge
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Denise's Christening - Terry, Tom, Denise, Tommie, Dorothy
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The Bayonne Girls & Baby Denise
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Leroy & Auntie
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Terry with a cigar band on his nose
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Mae and Leroy Wilson
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Florence, Thomas, Regina, ?, Tom, Denise
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Tom was singing Daddy's Little Girl
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| Visiting my Sister in Bayonne |

Tommie
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Home from School
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Terry on the Phone
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Trip to Biscayne Bay.
On the beach. Rita loved wearing this suit.
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From a sight seeing boat.
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On the Causeway
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Flagler Monument
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Just got back from Florida. Got coconuts on the lawn
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Summer BBQ
in the Backyard
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Glen Adair grilling in the rain.
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That canvas caught on fire
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Lou Everts
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Mary Everts
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Just a Sunday drive to Bear Mountain
It was clear and crisp.
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Christmas
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Al felt so bad about that tree he brought it home for 25 cents
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Raymond next to Charlie Brown's Christmas tree
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Hattie
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John, Al, Raymond, Bill
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Trip to Cape Cod
Dennis Play House
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A trip to Cape Cod in Clint's Cadillac. Look at that woodie in the background
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Cape Cod Light House
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Dennis playhouse - "Glass Menagerie" with Dana Andrews
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That was the first time Al ever had white chocolate
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Rita and I chaperoned Clint & Mae
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It was a lot of fun stumbling down the hill.
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A guift shop
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Coral Gables |
See her tail?
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Rita waving
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Katherine Adair's father in Coral Gables
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Glen Adair
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Still a lot of property available in Miami
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Biscayne Bay
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From the boat in Miami
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Raymond looking at Miami
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| At Manasquan Beach with Terry |
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Terry with a shell on his head
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Mummers Day Parade in Philly
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NAS Brooklyn
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Al's buddies
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NAS Floyd Bennett Field
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Radium Springs
On the way to Radium Springs
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1940 Chevolet. Neither George nor Rita had a licence, but we drove down to
Georgia anyway.
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George & Rita crossing the Chesapeak.
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Stopped here to cool off
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George from Germany
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Radium Springs
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Trip to Point Pleasant

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We almost bought the Riveria Restaurant that was located there for $35,000.
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Denise at Asbury Park Beach. She was afraid of the waves.
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John Bonner's boat in Point Pleasant
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Just a day at the shore
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Tommy's Confirmation
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Mae says look at the camera.
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Wildwood
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In Wildwood Crest, they let us keep Princy in the room, they even gave us food
and water for him
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In Wildwood Crest
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In Wildwood
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Rita ran down this sand dune
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Princey #1
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He was a good dog but he stole things all the time
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| Out on the Lawn in the Fall |
Fall around 1952
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Albert (before fat)
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Uncle Tim Kearney
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Marge DeFeo.
Her father owned a saw mill in Patterson.
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Uncle John's car
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Jackie Voshardt on his tricycle
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| Putting in the patio |
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Al put those curbs in and moved the plants out and put pink tint in the cement
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The patio that Al built
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Jack, Eileen, Evart, Al, Mrs. Evardt.
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We were all neighbors, and played cards
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The Italian Girl
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Ruth Winters
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Al and Jimmie's girlfriend
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At the Manasquan inlet
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Rusty the cat
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We still have that mirror
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Rita and our neighbor
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At Stanley's house
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Terry
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That was our favorite car - the English Austin
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Sunday dinner
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Terry & Rita
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Glen Rock Pool
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Rita & Buddy Jaeger
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Uncle John's Car
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That was before I did the driveway
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Jack Voshardt's Car
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Uncle Tim and our Studebaker
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First uniformed Crossing Guards in the US
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Terry in a really weird picture
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Somewhere in that wall is a Diamond ring Rita lost.
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A visit from the Nisski's
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Terry and Friends
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John playing a Uke
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Voshardt's backyard
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Easter at the Jaeger's house
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Nice sweater
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Rita sleeping late
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Mothballed fleet on the Hudson River after the war
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Jack Voshardt, Slate, Evarts, Tony. We played a lot of cards, there was no
TV
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Just before we sailed
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Pete Opperman and wife
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