With my brother and our father, 1969

From left to right, my brother Bill, me, and our father, at our home in Bremerton, Washington in 1969.

I don't know whether they still do it, but in that time the sawmills around Puget Sound would allow anyone who wanted shredded tree bark to haul away as much as they liked.

Dad had removed the middle seat from our 1968 VW Bus, and my brother remembers that Dad used ponchos to cover the rear seat before he filled the Bus with shredded bark. Here Dad is unloading the bark to use as ground cover in the front yard of our home.

My mother took this photo using a Kodak Instamatic 44 that she had bought when we arrived in Bremerton the previous summer. The light from the flash cube is visible as a reflection from the passenger door of the Bus.

That Instamatic 44 would become my first camera, and I still have it.

If you want to see what the three of us looked like 50 years later, see this photo from 2019: flic.kr/p/2hFTzoN

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Taken on: July 13, 2024

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