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- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
- Just add window boxes
- Icing Platform?
- Indiana Harbor Belt abides
- Freezing haze
- Corrections (for those who care)
- C&NW at Nelson
- Fallen Flags
- A dangerous job made worse
- Water Stop
- Passenger trains have right of way over freights?
- Coal
- Never ceases to amaze me.
- Still chuggin' (in model form)
- Great shot
- Westerly Breeze
- For the men, a trapeze
- Tickled
- Sense of loneliness ...
- 2 cents
- Charm City
- What an Outrage
- Brighton Park
- Catenary Supports
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Father and Son 1946
John J. Stafford Jr. and John J. Stafford III. Airport Homes, near Hartford, Connecticut. 1947 Airport homes was a former military quarters area on a decommissioned airport. After WWII it was an economical area to live as veterans and others got back into civilian life.
Photo by Venita Jalbert Stafford
Follow-up
Little John Stafford III is still alive and well in 2013, and his hair is once again platinum at 67 years-old.
Venita Deceased
My Mother, Venita Alice Jalbert died on Mothers Day, 2011.
Her eldest great-granddaughter liberating her ashes near Pike's Peak, Colorado.
RIP Venita Alice Jalbert (wife of John J. Stafford Sr.)
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