clara

Do you know what all the hubbub is about?
No, and who are all these people?
Did they make you tear paper off some box?
Yes, but they wouldn't let me eat it.
They said 28 years ago they propped our daddies here and took their picture.
And it was on this same ugly sofa.
What are second cousins any way?

William and Hannah
Christmas at Pop's

buddy holly christmas

Raising Cane's Chicken
907 University
Lubbock, Texas

pentax k-1000

From the family album:
My first SLR camera, the Pentax K-1000
Jacksonville, Alabama
Christmas 1982

christmas elms

From the archives:

Can lights and elm trees create a surreal yuletide scene at Santa Land in Mackenzie Park.
12.15.2010

harley claus

Today, for five dollars, you could have had your picture made with Harley Claus on the hog.

Wild West Harley Davidson
5702 58th Street
Lubbock, Texas

hanging our stockings

In a house without a fireplace, it's difficult to find a place to hang your Christmas stockings. Suzy and I ended up hanging them on the knobs of the Firestone Air Chief radio and phonograph (this was the entertainment center before television). It probably came from the Firestone Home and Auto Supply Store in Lubbock. According to www.airchiefradios.com,

our console radio was probably a pre-war model. An ad for a similar model touts six tubes, 10-inch speaker and matching walnut cabinet. Wonder what happened to all those colorful children's records we listened to?

From the family album:

Christmas 1952

New Deal, Texas