Sunday, April 20, 2025

Happy Easter!

Here's wishing all of you a Joyous Easter!

Although it's only supposed to be a high of 50º today, it should be sunny enough in the morning for those who wish to take their traditional photos down at the Lakeview Park Easter Basket.

Like everyone else, the Bradys made the trek to Lakeview Park for photos several times in the late 1950s and early 60s. I've posted most of them during the more than 15 years I've been doing this blog, but came up with a few new ones to share.

Above is the shot of my sister from Easter 1958. I wonder what those gents on the left are looking at in the moat around the basket?

The trouble with the color shots from the mid-1950s is that most of them have that reddish hue. Here's the photo of my sister before I did my amateurish color correction.

Here's a shot from that same day with Mom in it too. I guess the sun was pretty bright.

Ah, but the years of my sister being an only child had come to an end. The following Easter my older brother would get into the act down at Lakeview. Here they are in a very cute black and white photo from Easter 1959. 
I was wondering what Ken was holding. It was some kind of box.
When I saw it up close, however, I knew exactly what it was!
By request, here's another shot from the same Easter, probably before they all went down to the Easter Basket. Ken's got his Sugar Pops and a pinwheel too. What's interesting to me is that at the right of the photo is someone (one of my grandmothers?) who was obviously there to babysit me, since I was only a month old and not ready for the trip to Lakeview Park.
Finally, here's a shot from 1964 of the whole Brady Bunch, minus Dad, who took the picture. 

That's my younger brother at far left in a very stylish outfit. Ken and I have on our matching raincoats, and my sister is looking pretty grown up by now. Alas, we weren't going down to Lakeview Park any more; that's scenic W. 30th Street in the background. 

Happy memories. Consider capturing some of your own today.

9 comments:

  1. Happy Easter to the Brady Family!

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  2. "In your Easter bonnet..."

    I'm sort of jealous 'cause my family photos sure don't look anywhere near as calm and content.

    Happy Easter!

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  3. Thanks for the Easter Greetings! And Happy Easter to you too, Rae - and Don - and Anonymous! And everybody!

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  4. Happy Easter, everyone! Wonderful photos, Dan.

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  5. So in that March of 1964 photo,was the weather back then as wacky as it is today?You said you and your brother had your raincoats on Dan.Was that "just in case" or was the weather pretty reliable in its nature of years past?

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  6. I went back and checked the local weather for the Saturday before Easter 1964 (which was March 29th). The Saturday edition said "Snow flurries tonight with lows in 20s. Easter Sunday cold with morning snow flurries." So since Easter was early that year, snow was indeed a possibility – and Mom would have had us put those raincoats on over our sportcoats for warmth and protection against snow. On Monday, the weather forecast was "Fair and cold tonight with low about 18." Brrrrrrr!

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  7. Happy Easter! (A bit late getting to review your posts haha) Great Easter post!

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