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Mar Vista High School Marching Band at the Long Beach All Western Band Review, November 1967.
I'm the "Right Guide" - the trombone player in the center of the frame, at the right end of the front line.
MVHS Band

We took 3rd place in our division.

Before the parade practice in the Arena parking lot.
Before the parade practice in the Arena parking lot.
Before the parade practice in the Arena parking lot.
Me and Margie, dressed for the MVHS Senior Prom, June 1968

She made that dress herself, modeled on a dress that my mother had (which can be seen in the photos from my Dad).

Don Langdon, wearing the "Bear" - our name for the coat, a WWII Army Air Corps (predecessor to the US Air Force) Arctic flying jacket. He was the only one big enough to fill it out.

When we moved back to Illinois in 1959/60 my father was stationed at the Evanston IL supply dump. He brought home lots of stuff, including a full Arctic Flying suit: this jacket, with a wolverine fur trimmed collar (the hairs are hollow, so they never freeze from the wearer's breath), the pants, which were bib-overalls, and the boots, which had a 3" deep sheared wool pile lining.

Taken in the bedroom at 667 Donax, probably sometime in 1967.

Picnic in Cuyamaca mountains
Winter 1968:
Eric and his girlfriend Debbie,
Kirk Keel,
Margie & me.

In those days you could drive out Hwy 78 and pull off anywhere along the way, walk down the hill and have a picnic.
That's Lake Cuyamaca in the background.

Eric and Kirk's Corvair - our transportation
Debbie, Eric, Kirk
I used to be ticklish.
Margie and me, after the the picnic, on Florida St, IB
Eric, in front of Margaret's house on Florida, after the picnic.