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Below, 05MAR50, USS TEXAS [gamma correction applied] [1200dpi]
- looking rearward: starboard side and port side
- ... close-ups from each of the two above (check out the 2 dudes sitting atop the ventilator)
- looking rearward: port side, Earl, Doris(?), Russ, Marie
- unidentified personel manning the anti-aircraft guns
- base of the nearby San Jacinto Monument (commemorating where General Sam Houston won Texas' independence from Mexico by defeating General Santa Anna; Russ, Earl, Doris(?), Marie
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photograph by Russell Holder
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photograph by Russell Holder
Below, 06MAR50, Freighter coming into Galveston Bay, Galveston ship docks, Galveston - Beaumont Ferry which is the connecting link on highway 87 from the east end of Galveston Island
to Point Bolivar on the mainland. [1200dpi]
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Below, 09APR50, Easter Sunday 1950... 35mmR [1200dpi]
- Pam at 2 mo.
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Below, 09APR50, Easter Sunday 1950... 35mmR [1200dpi]
- Russ wearing Easter suit with new Teddy bear:
- - "How old are you?" "FIVE!"
- - "I need to pee..." "reeeeally I do..."
- - "Get ready for Pam"...
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Below, 10JUL50, Russ [1200dpi]
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Below: "Russ 7/10/50" [1200dpi]
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Below, 17JUL50, Pam at 5&1/2 mo. S.G.-Flash [1200dpi]
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Below, ddmmm50, Pam, Russ, Dorothy [1200dpi]
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Below: "Pat Blankenship Cy Holder Louise Holder - First Rocket Olds 1949-98 about 1950-1951" [1200dpi]
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Below, September 1951, Tulsa [1200dpi] (
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- Dad's 51 Olds Super 88
- - "Run - Daddy's after you - J&D Box Camera" [gamma correction applied]
- "Russ, don't let your girl friend get a cinder in her eye - Tulsa - Mohawk Park
Sept 51 J&D Box Camera" [gamma correction applied]
- - "Some play, some work - Tulsa - Mohawk Park Sept 51 J&D Box Camera"
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- "kids will be kids! Sept 51 J&D Box Camera" [gamma correction applied]
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Below, November 1951, Pam [gamma correction applied] [1200dpi] (
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Below, 25DEC51, RL, Dorothy, Pam, Russ [gamma correction applied] [1200dpi] (
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Lets think about this a moment... September 5, 1950 I would be 5 years old, but by Texas law since my birthday was after the fall term started I would be a
mid-termer and start school in the Spring 1951 semester, so, 1st half of kindergarten in the Spring of 1951; then, dad was recalled by the Army to teach new
artillery officers at Fort Sill in Lawton Oklahoms, and, since Oklahoma had no such sillyness with mid-termers, I was put right into 1st grade in the fall of 1951 - before
I turned 6 years old, thus skipping a half a grade, viz., high-kindergarten; then next year we moved back to Houston in the summer of 1952 and dad resumed his job at Westinghouse and I was
put directly into 3rd grade in the fall of 1952 - oops, and may have skipped a whole grade except a couple of weeks into 3rd grade there was a math test and we were to write down ALL the
numbers from 1 to 200... well that's just way too tedius, maybe nobody would notice I didn't write them all if I just fudged it going up to 120 thus: "... 117, 118, 119, 200;"
well, it WAS noticed and I was put back into 2nd grade, but, I was no longer a mid-termer and I ended up graduating highschool and starting college in the fall of 1963
at 17 years old, but, although I was in college, I really had no idea what I wanted to do... and therefore... when RL III was born on September 20th and we had the
option to let him start school before his birthday or make him wait a year, the decision was made to wait and perhaps he will be at some advantage being a little more
mature than his classmates, and, perhaps he would have a better idea what he wanted to do when he did graduate high school... well... that was the plan, nice idea, but
it did not really seem to make any more difference in his outcome.
Below left, "What's Daddy doing looking thru that gadget? April 1952 35mmR" [this must have been while still in Lawton OK, see below] [gamma correction applied] [1200dpi]
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Below middle, "It's kinda funny when you get used to it April 1952 35mmR" [this must have been while still in Lawton OK, see below] [gamma correction applied] [1200dpi]
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Below right, "May 31, 1952" [this must have been back in Houston, see below] [gamma correction applied] [1200dpi]
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Below, 1952: 9615 Chatfield "1st Houston Home [bought (house on Bartlet Street must have been rented)]" [gamma correction applied] [1200dpi]
... and... a floor plan to be best of my recollection... 1 HOUR EVERY DAY practicing the piano... that's 60 minutes... that's 3 THOUSAND 600 seconds! [sigh]
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Below: "June 1,1952" Russ, Pam, "Grandma's Little Texas Rose" [1200dpi]
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Below, top: "18 July 1952" Russ, Pam [gamma correction applied] [1200dpi]
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Below, middle, left: "20 July 1952" RL, Russ, Pam, Dorothy [gamma correction applied] [1200dpi]
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Below, middle, right: "20 July 1952" Russ, Dickie (?), Pam [1200dpi]
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Below, bottom: "27 July 1952" Earl [gamma correction applied] [1200dpi]
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Below: "27 July 52" RL & Dorothy [1200dpi]
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Below left, 15AUG52(?): Pam [gamma correction applied] [1200dpi]
Below right, 15AUG52(?): Russ, Pam [gamma correction applied] [1200dpi]
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Below top left: "8/15/52" Pam, Earl, Marie, Russ [1200dpi]
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Below top right: "8/15/52" Russ, Earl, Pam Marie [gamma correction applied] [1200dpi]
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Below bottom left: "8/15/52" Pam [gamma correction applied] [1200dpi]
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Below bottom right: "8/15/52" Russ, Pam [gamma correction applied] [1200dpi]
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Below top: "8/15/52" Marie, Dorothy, Earl, Pam, Russ [gamma correction applied] [1200dpi]
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Below bottom : "8/15/52" Russ, Earl, Pam, Marie, and Tinker and I want to say Sandy [gamma correction applied] [1200dpi]
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Below: 05SEP52? Russ' birthday [gamma correction applied] [1200dpi]
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Below: "Christmas 1952" Russ, Pam, Marie, Dorothy [1200dpi]
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Below Pam: "2/9/53 The 3 fingers is signaling the amt of toys and dresses whe wants 3 yrs old RII" [1200dpi]
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Below left: Russ, fall 1953 - spring 1954 at Mark Twain Elementary School, Houston, 3rd grade [1200dpi]
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Below right: summer 1953(?) [gamma correction applied] [1200dpi]
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Below left: "3/1/54" Dorothy, Russ, Pam [gamma correction applied] [1200dpi]
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Below: "3/1/54" Russ, Pam,... [gamma correction applied] [1200dpi]
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Below: "3/1/54" Pam and TinkerBell [1200dpi]
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Below: Summer 1954? Mammoth Snapshot collection, Earl, Marie, Dorothy, Russ, Pam [Earl's Hudson Hornet] [1200dpi]
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Below: August 1955 RL Holder family's Colorado vacation with Earl and Marie Shanks, a couple fotos takes taken by the Arkansas River at the bottom of the Royal
Gorge by Cannon City Colorado and one by the limousine that takes people up to the top of Pikes Peek [gamma correction applied] [1200dpi]
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Below: Russ, fall 1955 - spring 1956 at Charles P. Shearn Elementary School, Houston, 5th grade [1200dpi]
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Below: May 1956 Marie and Pam at 4309 Stillbrook home [1200dpi]
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Below: May 1956 Dorothy, Russ, Pam at the Houston Intercontinental Airport [1200dpi]
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Below: July 1956 Dorothy, Galveston... perhaps... [1200dpi]
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Below: 5th of September 1956 Russ' 11th birthday; Marie, Janette, RL, Dickie, Russ, Pam, Earl, Dorothy [1200dpi]
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Below: Russ, fall 1955 - spring 1956 at Charles P. Shearn Elementary School, Houston, 5th grade [1200dpi]
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Below: February 1957 Dorothy, Pam, Marie, Russ, RL; how do I not remember this place? or the Harley-Davidson? [1200dpi]
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Below: July 1957 RL, Russ and Pam at Galveston with our inner-tubes (careful of the valve stem) [1200dpi]
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Below: August 1957 RL Holder family's Colorado vacation... we went every other year during this time staying at Grand Lake, Colorado's largest and deepest natural lake located in the
headwaters of the Colorado River in Grand County, Coloradol Grand Lake feeds Shadow Mountain Lake, which feeds Gramby Resivoir... on the east side of the lake, less than a mile from the
middle of the village, and just up river from Grand Lake is Adam's Falls - really awesome water falls easily accessed by a 0.7 mile loop trail good for all skill levels with several view points;
Grand Lake is 360' deep, mom was concerned about drowning
in the lake and dad dismissed that idea with the fact that a person could drown in 2' of water, land around the lake is federal land leased to individuals on a 100 year lease, houses built
on the leased land are really awesome. Dad towed his boat to Grand Lake in 1961 and we water skied, water is 42o BRRRRR! Dad asked me if I wanted to just get out of the boat in
the middle of the lake or try standing on the dock and jumping off at the moment the accelerating boat got the slack out of the rope - I opted for starting in the water; so, into the water
and get skis on and when dad made the "question mark" around me to deliver the rope handle to me and began to slowly drag me through the water as he took the slack out of the rope - the
difference in the temperature of the water that was heated by the boat's motor was actually noticable - not warm, but not AS cold; Uncle Dick decided this was as good a place as any to
learn to ski, he sounded like a wounded buffalo when he jumped into the water, yell echoed off of the surrounding mountains, he learned in just 3 attempts, the cold water being an incentive
to get the heck OUT of the water! [1200dpi]
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Below: December 1957 RL and Dorothy (it can be 80o in Houston at Christmas) [1200dpi]
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Below: Russ, fall 1958 - spring 1959 at General John J. Pershing Junior High School, Houston, 8th grade [1200dpi]
~ Never pass up an opportunity ~ General John J. Pershing
[this also applies to taking a leak at a gas stop]
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Below: Summer 1959 cruising what?... Houston Ship Channel?... Galveston Bay??? [1200dpi]
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Below: Earl Shanks' Century powered by a Chrusler 6 cylinder marine engine... sweeeeeet sounding motor... [1200dpi]
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Below: Russ, fall 1959 - spring 1960 at General John J. Pershing Junior High School, Houston, 9th grade [1200dpi]
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Below: Russ & Stephanie Taylor in Memorial Park, Houston; Russ' spring and summer 1964 sweetheart with Russ' 1964 Cheverolet Belair 6 cylinder PowerGlide 2 door
sedan which he painted 1954 Buick Victoria Blue with a white top and white side insert, a real tank, drove it to University of Arizona and
back a couple of times and all over southern Arizona paved AND dirt roads. [gamma correction applied] [1200dpi]
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Below: Russ, University of Houston, Architecture Major, spring 1964 [gamma correction applied] [1200dpi]
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RL & Dorothy Holder 1900's through 1940's photos from the Joske's Houston Box: click here
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RL & Dorothy Holder Joske's Houston Box photos from the Silly Old Grandma with Photos In Purse album: click here
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