Ah, Craig Street looking east, 1952. Beyond the trees is Lake Superior. Notice the seagulls. And notice the
house without siding. People would build their houses but only go so far as they could afford, then wait
and save for the next step. Mugsy & Leonora Kevrin lived there but Gus remembers a different house with a
large family... torn down when Muggs bought the lot, I guess. This is in the driveway to 415 Craig where
the family moved in 1945, You can see that Craig ends - it was only two blocks long in those days and was
a designated sleighing street in winter. Later it was extended west several blocks as the city grew.

I can take no credit (nor blame) for that deer... just posing. But I was so proud of that Safety Patrol belt. You can
see the clothes drying to the left. They'd be hard as boards when the wet clothes froze. The basement door is hidden
by that plywood or whatever it is. You can see the door into a storage area under the sunporch. 1954, ten years old.

Various stages of evolution, from innocence to cyndicism. You can see the Elvis influence then, influenced by the college
boys I'd see around town (and who picked us up once hitch-hiking in a VW). I caught flak from my friends for that
hair-do switch. It was just a wishful pose though, I didn't really have the self-confidence to picture myself going to college.

This one fits somewhere between junior high and graduation in 1962

and then, hoping to impress people, having seen too many Hollywood war movies, yearning for
some kind of identity plus there being no work...

the ropes were strictly un-authorized but they let us doll up for the camera. By the time I got to Vietnam
much of the illusion had been shattered but still, it took some edgycation to realize that I was fighting not
for freedom and democracy but for capitalism, serving not the people but the 1%.

Jumping to much later, a little gray there, probably 2013.

That gut testifies to a lot of vino & pasta.

Wanted to lose weight for years and finally did but I wouldn't recommend it, though it is quite effective -
cancer as a weight loss program. 7 weeks of radiation & chemo early 2015... not fun. Lost my beard, thinned out hair.


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