“HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the DONALD”

Jun 10th “HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the DONALD”

Happy Birthday “Donnie”……… and many… many…..more…”

“Happy Birthday” Donald Lee Aldrich – and many more! This picture was taken in the early 1960’s – Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Could possibly be Donald’s 10th birthday party! One thing was for sure – if we were having a “birthday party” for any one of the children – all the kids in the neighborhood – would kindly invite their selves! – Most of the boys in Donald’s Cub Scout group were at our house each week for their “weekly… BOY- SCOUT ” – meeting – and we always managed to have fun that involved each of the boys and for parties – there was always prizes for each of the games, played! With our restaurants – there was never a shortage of good food to be served – sometimes we even had the party at one of our restaurants.

In the above picture – Donald is the boy near the window and it seems that just too much “FLORIDA SUNSHINE” in beaming in – so that his balloon seems to be almost invisible? This could be – possibly one of the games – the boys are doing – have no idea what my game plan was… back then – but as you can see they were blowing for whatever the prize will be?

Sorry – that I do not have a note as to the ‘friend’ of Donald’s – – his name is not on the back of this picture – but… I do believe that he lived across the street and down a couple houses – on the Lake Melba side!

One good thing about having our “SCOUT MEETINGS” at our house – – the children did not need rides to our house – – as their SCHOOL was across the other side of our home – – and everyone would be within a very short walking distance. Seems that all the boys in our group just lived a block or two – in either direction… all within walking distance.