Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: party

We ate the cake anyway....

Neatest concessions trailer I've ever seen.

The host to Mulliken's Hot Rods & Harleys--car show, bike show, and party.

My parents got married 58 years ago today. Seemed like a good excuse to share this mid-1980s photo. Mom always claimed the silly grins resulted from being slightly tipsy. See Preacher Debra's comments, below, for this photo's context....

Until we started running the CommCenter on a skeleton staff, parties were a common diversion. Jim and I both caught more than one on film. Jim Lovins photograph, Pleiku, Republic of Vietnam, 1970 or 1971.

Another photo from the party I showed you a couple weeks back. Miserably focused; obviously I was shooting the folks in the foreground, but instead I ended up with a fairly good photo of the buildings behind them. Ummm. What buildings are those, Joel? Wish I could remember; I'm totally disoriented.... That sky's pretty impressive.

A little fuzzy.... The army was scaling down the war while I was in Nam; over the course of my year the Pleiku Army CommCenter shrank from a large operation with 50 or so staffers working two shifts to a place which could be run by two crews of four, plus administrative staff. This party celebrated the largest staffing change, as about half of the GIs left within a few days. Obviously we had pizza. And Coke. We had beer, too. Probably weed, too. Names are a problem. 35 years is a long time; you tend to forget. I don't fully trust the labels I've put on the pic, and welcome corrections. ========== On June 1, 1971--before this party occurred, but not a lot before it--I recorded a tape to send home. Listened to it the other day, and pulled these names out of my comments: o Burnis Johnson (we'll show a picture or two of BJ one of these days) o Curtis Alford (see above) o ??? Correll (???) o Rick Edmonson (or Edmiston?) o Charlie Panquerne (Charlie's the one member of the gang who died in Nam) o Alexander Carson o Oscar Siminski (his photo's already in the set) o Pete Carlson

Headquarters--the Brothers of the Ring clubhouse.