Both photographs bear the date Feb 65 along the margin, so they were obviously developed then. When they were taken is less obvious. I am wearing my black suit with the narrow black tie in the top photograph and inexplicably pretending to play the ukulele--mom and I had gone to a clothing store in Huntington Park to have the suit made for my junior high graduation the year before. Along that wall of the living room mom would place a large piano sometime later. The handle in the foreground is to the front door. I might have been getting ready to go to church or had just returned from church. The Catholic Church in South Gate was on Firestone Blvd., only a few blocks from our house.
The bottom photograph is of mom and me on the couch along the opposite wall in the living room. The magnolia picture on the wall is a pastel that mom had since at least the 1940's and was in the background of several B&W photographs from that era and later. Mom told me that the woman who created it, and from whom she bought it, died of cancer. Given that it was first seen on the wall of the house in Tampa, FL, the woman must have died back then because I doubt if mom kept in touch with her after we kids were born and the family moved on. After mom died, I kept mom's painting of Grandpa Sanchez's sail boat. Ann kept the magnolia pastel, for a few years at least until she moved to Indio, CA, for good.
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