Grandma’s Stories

Jun 12th “The whole FAMILY will start to… sing…”

“Happy Birthday to you…

“Happy Birthday to  … the “DONALD”

… and many… many… more…

Sure do hope that this is the best BIRTHDAY…ever!

From the left is… Uncle Al and Aunt Thelma holding  the dog that we just got for big brother TOMMY…  and standing with my arms full  and stretching a mile – – just to get into the PHOTO that your FATHER is taking – – and  that is “baby LEE, Jr., – – he is singing “HAPPY BIRTHDAY” as only he can.

“Have the very best of  BIRTHDAYS – – and Celebrate all week – – I said so… it is “OKAY” to have fun in the SUN Shine STATE – – FLORIDA!”

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.