Take a Hike, Ike!

Posted on September 12, 2009 by Paula Parks

Officially, Hurricane Ike came ashore Saturday, September 13.  As far as I’m concerned, Ike started showing his fanny about noon on Friday the 12th.  Both Big J’s and my office were closed so we were home all day watching TV.  Phil Archer on KPRC Channel 2 was standing on the Galveston seawall, saying, “GET OUT!”  [...]

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Lone Star Lifer. July 1956.

Posted on September 3, 2009 by Paula Parks

I was born on a Thursday, so on Thursdays you get to see Lone Star Lifer grow through the years.

 

I usually don’t comment on my Lone Star Lifer pictures.  But I want to today.
My dad and mom normally took slides instead of snapshots.  When we wanted to look through the picture album, we got out the slide [...]

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Lone Star Lifer. 1957.

Posted on August 20, 2009 by Paula Parks

I was born on a Thursday, so on Thursdays you get to see Lone Star Lifer grow through the years.
 
All photographs and writing property of LoneStarLifer. 2009.

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Lone Star Lifer. 1956.

Posted on August 13, 2009 by Paula Parks

I was born on a Thursday, so on Thursdays you get to see Lone Star Lifer grow through the years.
All photographs and writing property of LoneStarLifer. 2009.

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Lone Star Lifer. 1955.

Posted on July 16, 2009 by Paula Parks

I was born on a Thursday, so on Thursdays you get to see Lone Star Lifer grow through the years.
PS – These pictures came from slides my dad took.  My buddy Deb also posted slides of her childhood.  When was the last time you got out the screen and projector and looked at slides????

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Lone Star Lifer. 1956.

Posted on July 9, 2009 by Paula Parks

My first official portrait.
I was born on a Thursday, so on Thursdays you get to see Lone Star Lifer grow through the years.  I was born in 1955, so this was sometime in 1956. 

All photographs and writing property of LoneStarLifer. 2009.

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