Next three photos: Mar 1963
Until I was given the shoebox filled with photos from mom that had escaped my photo album project in the 90's, I had found very few photos from 1960-1963. These almost doubled the input. I do not know where the top photo was taken, but it was, as with all of the others, with mom's old Kodak camera.
With the help of others on Facebook, I was able to learn that the Family Restaurant (Buffet) in the bottom photo was called The Dunes. I am not 100 percent certain, but I believe that the building still stands on 574 Glassell St. in Orange, CA, very near to the Holy Family Catholic church (but it's now a Chinese restaurant). The miniature golf course in the other three pictures was next to the family restaurant. Today, a large apartment complex sits where the golf course used to be. In the third photo from the top, I believe that the tower in the background behind the trees is the Holy Family bell tower, which still exists in front of the church. This trip would have been one of those several Saturdays where mom took us for the day once a month.
What I find fascinating is that this was March 1963, just three months from the night of our leaving dad and Willene and moving in with mom. They still lived on Lomita in Orange for a couple more years before selling that triplex and buying a house in Garden Grove.
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