We are having a storm here in SoCal. According to all the reports it's going to be rainy and cold with snow at 1,000 feet - maybe even 500 feet in some areas.
Phoebe - skiing somewhere in SoCal I believe - late 80's.I am happy to be inside - and happy that I have nowhere I have to be! But it made me think about snow and cold - and how glad I am not to live in it anymore.
10th East, Salt Lake City, 1972.Not that I've even lived in it recently, but I do have enough snow memories to know that I don't want to live in it again.
Brian Head - early 90's maybe? Phoebe, Noah and Dad.It's fun to play in.
Salt Lake City - Douglas Street in 1969.And it makes for nice photographs.
Bonny and the blue Dodge truck - 10th East in Salt Lake City - 1972.And it's fun to reminisce about the old days and snow gear - especially Bonny in her red-riding hood coat.
White Oak Avenue - Granada Hills CA - January 9, 1949.
Believe it or not, my snow memories actually go way back - to January 9, 1949, when it snowed for 3 days in Granada Hills. This is a shot of White Oak Avenue - a few blocks from where I grew up. My dad drove us all there to play in the snow. It snowed again in GH in 1967 and 1989, but it was brief - lasted less than a day. Apparently the snowfall of '49 was quite a production.
I mostly remember coming home with snowballs in our hands - and wondering what happened to them!! (I was 4 1/2 after all!!)
Thanks goodness for new forced air heating, well-planned heating ducts, a cozy fireplace, a comfy couch, and a great book!!
But I guess I'd better put some buckets around the family room - rainstorms seem to wake up weak spots in the family room roof!
Believe it or not, my snow memories actually go way back - to January 9, 1949, when it snowed for 3 days in Granada Hills. This is a shot of White Oak Avenue - a few blocks from where I grew up. My dad drove us all there to play in the snow. It snowed again in GH in 1967 and 1989, but it was brief - lasted less than a day. Apparently the snowfall of '49 was quite a production.
I mostly remember coming home with snowballs in our hands - and wondering what happened to them!! (I was 4 1/2 after all!!)
Thanks goodness for new forced air heating, well-planned heating ducts, a cozy fireplace, a comfy couch, and a great book!!
But I guess I'd better put some buckets around the family room - rainstorms seem to wake up weak spots in the family room roof!
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Dale was born on January 7, 1949 and when that storm hit Utah, it was a biggee. Dale's Dad had to park the car on the road and take Dale and Norma home (at that time they lived here Midvale HS) and bring them home on a sled. It was a big storm. I remember not being able to go since I had the mumps. I do remember looking out the little house window. Pretty good memory for an almost two year old.
That is a good memory for a two year old. My earliest memory is when Lyn dumped car oil on my hair. That's not what I remember - what I remember is Mom washing it out with Tide. We were in Burbank, so I was maybe 3?
Wow! That is a lot of snow in Southern California! I am not sure I would have believed it if I hadn't seen the picture.
The shot of Phoebe skiing is at Brian Head.
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