Thanks for the advice. Funny I'd used Paint to crop and save pics for a long time now, and have seen that conversion list come up when you hover over the "save as" command. But in all this time I did not realize they were active commands and just thought they were a simple list of things you could do elsewhere. Show's what I know!
One click and done. Great new knowledge!

Ok, last pic of mom. This one is earlier and, to me at least, looks more like Henrietta than the others. Judging by my big bro's age (maybe 2-ish you think?) this would be circa 1943 in either CA or back in MD.
That was the year her first husband and Stuart's birth father died in a plane crash on Adak in the Aleutian Islands during the WWII going's on up there. Pic might even have been taken in Santa Cruz where she had rented a house while he was away flying PBY's in the war effort.



Sorry for the off-topic story. But I'll use any excuse to keep their story alive.

Thanks for putting up with it.

Paul

 

Circa '38 to '42-ish most likely while in Cincinnati at University.
Is that a Buick? Not portholes exactly, but same theme.
And dad always was a Buick guy...



But I'm determined to find some Ford shots in the family archive. I think I already posted my uncle's T-birds to this thread way back, but I'm lookin' for really old now.

Paul

 

Buick did not introduce portholes till very late 1940s. I do not remember if those vents on that 1939 Buick were functional. Nice looking trio.

 

This 54 looks pretty good with the push bar blocking the grille

 

Creede, Mineral County, CO

 

Thanks for sharing. In the midst of rapid change seemingly everywhere, and to some of the very things and institutions we thought were resistant to change, it is good to see something somewhere that has somehow stood up to the forces of change, powerful as they are, and remains pretty much as it always was.

Jim

 

Paul,
Amazing pictures! Thanks for sharing the information and posting them. I for one really enjoy knowing a little bit about the pics being posted.

Bobby

 

And, at 76, she still exudes an amazing amount of sex appeal!!

 

 

Thanks Bobby. I get a thrill out of digging these up and sharing.

In that Mustang lineup, that looks like Lee Iacocca in the middle and Henry II(?) on our right. Wonder who the third is?

Paul

 

That would be the one and only Donald Frey.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_N._Frey

 

 

 

Why are the suits standing on the truck over looking the guy running the jack hammer?

 

Looks photo shopped to me