Neil, Clancy, Louise and Maynard at the beach

It's a shame Helen isn't in this photo! I love the brooding good looks of the boys! I am curious why the children didn't smile too often in these photos, although the process might have been not unlike photos taken by Mac through the years: "Okay, boys, line up! Okay, smile." Fidget...fidget with the camera until the boys began to grimace and then Mac snapped the photo! This photo may have involved a tripod and much effort. Any thoughts on how they ended up at the beach in suits? A Sunday afternoon drive after dinner?

Cyndi

Moms, four kids and a car

This photo was in the same collection of photos as the picture of the house one Windsor. Note Neil and Clancy in the background, and, I assume, Louise and Helen next to Moms. Anyone able to identify the location or the kind of car or the year the photo might have been taken?

Cyndi

714 S. Windsor

Happy New Year, Family! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year.

Sandy and I were in Phoenix with our daughter, Lindsay, and her husband, Jason, our son, Steven, and his four children. (For those of you who are unaware, he is raising the infant son of his ex-wife. The little guy doesn't know his father, so Steven is his only "Daddy.") Lindsay and Jason were spending their first Christmas in their new home, so it was fun to spend Christmas Eve there, open presents with little ones and make a complete mess making sugar cookies with an 8 year old and a 9 year old!

Unfortunately for Sandy, he took a fall on Christmas Eve and we spent the wee hours of Christmas morning in the ER. He apparently has a bad sprain and he's still hobbling. If that were his only mishap, we'd count ourselves lucky, but before we returned to California, he was taken out by a kid on a sled while we were playing in the snow with our grandchildren, and sustained bruised ribs from that one. A couple of days later, he hit himself in the nose while retrieving a box, and may have broken his nose! Tough week for him in spite of the fact he enjoyed being around kiddos and grandkiddos for the holidays!

Enough of Wassons --I'm here to ask questions about Hathaways! 714 S. Windsor has been mentioned by all of you with such affection that it is clear it is the site of many happy memories. Can anyone take me on a "tour" of the house and tell me where the living room was, where the kitchen was, or about the sleeping porch? Was the dining room big? Sandy used to mention a place on the floor where Moms could ring for assistance from the kitchen. Did you all get in trouble playing with it as kids?

Did Moms and Dad have parties there? Were they formal dinner or cocktail parties or did they ever barbecue in the backyard? (Or was that kind of entertaining, if done at all, done out on the ranch?) I've been in the family a long, long time, but still don't have the answers to all of these questions. Someone start talkin'!

Love,

Cyndi

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

Roger and I send all The Hathaway Cousins and their families a Very Merry Christmas and many Happy and Cheer-filled wishes for a Happy and Healthy New Year. May all your dreams come true and may more of you contribute to our family rememberences.

Love and Good Wishes To All,
Marianne & Roger

OOPS!

At least I am trying - I was trying to add a new post and make it in color and it seems I have not only changed everything to red but somehow the firs couple of paragraphs of my last post showed up again. OH WELL.
What I was trying to say in a NEW POST is this:
It's beginning to look alot like Christmas. It would fel more like Christmas if more of you would 'pop in' and add an HELLO and HOW ARE YOU. Must I make this a DARE??? I know you are out there somewhere. Who's going to be first?
There I have had my say for today.

It's beginning to look alot like Christmas

It would feel ALOT more like Christmas if more of you would 'pop in' and post a "HELLO and how are you". Must I make this a 'DARE'? Come on and join in!!!!! I know you are out there somewhere!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To All Kids Who Survived the 1930's, '40's, '50's, 60's, & '70's!!

Those Born 1920-1979

READ TO THE BOTTOM FOR QUOTE OF THE MONTH BY JAY LENO. It's pretty cool. We are very fortunate to grow up when we did!


TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!


First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.


They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.


Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.


We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.


As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.


Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.


We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.


We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle andNO ONE actually died from this.


We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank Kool-aid made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because,

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!


We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.


No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.


We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes.After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.


We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or chat rooms.......

WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!


We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.


We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.


We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.


We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!


Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!


The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!


These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!


The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!


If YOU are one of themCONGRATULATIONS!


You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.

While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.


Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?


The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:

"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?"