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Reflecting on Nürnberg in 1964 - post 31ack I have only Naples left and I didn't write any letters from there so maybe 3 more sections- greatgrandma
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Reflecting on Nürnberg in 1964 - post 31Rosalie, shouldn't this: be Austrian Alps?- Levina de Ruijter
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1939 - 1940 Four transits through New York City and a Visit to the World's FairOkay. Let me know when the new blog entry with the photo is ready and I will move our comments there.
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Right. We'll actually make this a little bit interactive. On some of the Murals, you'll see a black number on an oval shaped plaque in the corner. If you take note of the number, and look here, you'll get a bit of a description of the painting :) https://katikatiopenairart.co.nz/ourmurals/ Oh...- Markuswelder
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Germany in 1950- Post 6
Daddy was fascinated by the way the traffic was directed - policemen with white gloves who were almost dancing. He took movies of them. German traffic cop German children old couple Mannheim street American GIs with a German girl - the GIs had access to many things unavailable to the...- greatgrandma
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My Parent's Trips Before I was Born - 1932 to 1937
My mother learned to drive in 1923 in North Carolina. She was 14 and she learned on a Model T. The Model T had a different transmission from what you see today. Part of shifting gears was done with your feet. Mother She was taught by her uncles - her mother's younger brothers Willard and...- greatgrandma
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Catching up with family, in Northland
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There was mutual agreement that we'd all get together at my Sister & Brother in laws place just out of Kerikeri. The weather up North is just... -
Ambling Around Amsterdam 2018 - Second Post
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The National Monument on Dam Square (Dutch: Nationaal Monument or Nationaal Monument op de Dam), Amsterdam, is a 1956 World War II monument in the... -
Ambling Around Amsterdam 2018 - First Post
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The people at the hotel are very helpful. We got a wake-up call at 7 and got dressed to go down to breakfast. The scooter charger was green... -
Stopover in Amsterdam 2018
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I am leaving for my last grandchild trip. She's the youngest of my 11 grandchildren. She is 12.5 May 29 KLM-Delta Flight to Amsterdam leaving... -
Carlsbad Caverns and the Final Dash Home in 1948 - Tenth Post
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The Indians that we saw at Garden of the Gods were not "from" there - that is from what I remember they were not local indians - those indians... -
From the Uncompahgre Plateau to the Great Sand Dune Preserve in1948 - Ninth Post
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We did one additional trip in Colorado before we started for home. We drove over to the other side of the Rockies to the Uncompahgre Plateau... -
Exploring the Wet Mountain Valley -1948 Eighth Post
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Miss Kettle's house in Westcliffe Miss Kettle (one of my father's school teachers) had a house in Westcliffe. We went up Round Mountain, a small... -
Silver Cliff - My Father's Birthplace in 1948 - Seventh post
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My father was born December 1904 in a ghost silver mining town called Silver Cliff. Silver Cliff is in the Wet Mountain Valley between the Wet... -
Colorado Springs, Colorado - 1948. Sixth post
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My dad with his mom, me, my sister and my mom My sister and I wore dresses most of the time. Usually made by my mother. She would make one for... -
On to Colorado - Visiting More Relatives in 1948 - Fifth Post
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After we left Uncle Leonard's, I am not absolutely sure of the sequence of events. We went to Rocky Mountain National Park Chipmunk lured out... -
Cheyenne Rodeo - 1948 - Fourth Post
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Then Uncle Leonard took us to the Union Pacific rail-yards. Union Pacific railyard Uncle Leonard with us My sister and me - railroad... -
Yellowstone and Laramie Wyoming in 1948 - Third Post
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After we crossed the South Dakota border, we were in Wyoming. Buffalo Bill statue in Cody WY "Buffalo Bill -- the Scout," a bronze sculpture... -
Camping in the Badlands in 1948 - Second Post
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Road in SD One of our entertainments was reading the Burma Shave signs. We also visited Wall SD - we wanted to see Wall Drug Store. Wall... -
Driving West in 1948 - First Post
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During World War II, gas and tires were rationed and the factories were producing tanks and vehicles for the troops. We had a black 1940 Ford two... -
Armed Forces Day Visit in 1970 and Jeopardy
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The two older girls and I took the train up to New York City where the Intrepid was docking for Armed Forces Day.. Before he got there, I tried... -
My Mother Started It All - 1974
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My mom did not like to fly. She drove or took a train or a ship for all the trips she made - with two exceptions. She flew for the first time... -
No-Show Taxi to Schiphol and No-Show Scooter - 30 April 2016
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I got to thinking that each time we had been picked up by the City Airport Taxi, they had been late. So I decided I wanted to move the time to... -
The Afternoon in Alkmaar - 2016
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I do cemetery documentation - whenever I have time, I go to cemeteries and take pictures. Then when I get home, I enter the data into a database...