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.