Time Capsule 1964

Here are some old photos that my Dad, Eugene Buechner, took years ago. In some ways it seems like yesterday. In other ways its ancient history. (Click on photo for an enlarged view) For a short time my Dad dabbled in photography and developed his photos in his basement workshop. The black and white photos were taken by him circa 1964. I have many more of his old photos to print. They are scratchy quality and will need to be doctored in Photoshop.

Please make comments under this posting if you have any fond memories or if these recall other memories.

Below: Holly and I sitting at the kitchen table of our childhood home at 2054 E. Hawthorne Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota. This may be the summer of 1965 instead of 1964. Do any of you know for sure? I ponder the familiar items in this photo that bring back memories. The phone hanging on the cupboard, the wicker cafe' curtains, the box of fresh fruit in the forefrount left edge of photo. Mom always bought fresh fruit by the crate for the family. It looks like these were peaches. I especially remember this wooden table and chairs from my early years. OMG... Holly, look at the rollers in your hair. It was the age before hand held blow dryers and curling irons. How soon we forget! Oh ... that plate on the wall hanging next to the phone.... Mom gave that to me and now it is on display in my master bedroom.




This photo was taken on Easter of 1964. I had just turned 5 the November before. On the table on the right there is a TV Digest photo of Jackie Kennedy in a black dress, probably some article about her after the funeral.
--This photo's props bring back lots of memories. I remember those pink covered chairs, the model ship on the book case that I carried to school a few years later only to break on my walk home from school. The old TV with dials and antennaes, the TV trays and our short narrow hallway to our cramped little bedrooms of the day. My easter coloring book on the floor. Geesh... look at those saggy anklets. I look pretty sullen because then I was terrified of flash bulbs, so it is probably a miracle that they got my picture taken at all!


This photo was taken that same day. Because I was camera scared, they probably bribed me into the photo shot by allowing me to eat my Easter Chocolate bunny rabbit. Notice the chocolate all over my face. This was taken before Sunday Mass too! Yikes, my Mom was brave! Ugh! Look at those awful pincurl curls and those bangs.........Tzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, what was my mother thinking? Thankfully I have survived any ways. (wink wink)


This is the Holly that we all know... always cheerful, smiling, teasing and quite the whimsical girl. That jumper dress is sweet, too bad she had her arms covering most of it up. This was taken Easter of this same year, making Holly about age 15. Ah, I remember that old knick knack shelf. My Mom was always squawking at us while cringing about her knick knacks and their viability of being knocked down. Why she put such treasures in such a place that things would easily get knocked down, I'll never know, but I am sure we all have our stories about those "knick knack" shelves.


This is Mom, almost age 36. She still smoked then, but stopped smoking very soon after this. Look she had pincurls too! I guess the pin curls weren't much better for her either! (teasing) I'm just glad the pincurl age is over.