Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: richarddinda

Another previously-unseen photo of Kalamazoo Richard . Like this one , the developer never printed the picture, because it came from a damaged roll.... When we lived on Palmer, Dick & I shared an upstairs room with built-in beds. That's where he's sitting. Christmas or thereabouts, 1971/72. Camera: Minolta SR-T 101

It's Kalamazoo Richard 's birthday. Happy Birthday, bro! I thought I'd honor that event by posting a few photographs. Here he is, at age 18, frolicking in the yard at our cottage on Wall Lake in Delton, MIchigan. Spring, 1972. We'd had an ice storm; as you can see, it did lots of damage. We'd spend the day cleaning that up. The cottage was one of two our parents owned; they'd originally been rental units constituting half of a small lakeside resort. Mom & Dad were about to sell our Palmer Avenue home, and we'd live on the lake until moving into the Wellington Road place in December. Dick & I shared this little cottage; Mom, Dad, & Debbie stayed next door in the somewhat larger, and better-equipped, place. ---------------- I drove by Wall Lake a few weeks back, and was quite surprised to discover that the cottages were still standing. Many of their neighbors have been replaced with more substantial places; I expect these to eventually meet that fate.

My brother, Kalamazoo Richard , bicycled from Kalamazoo to Dayton to attend the 1980 convention of the League of American Wheelmen (Bicyclists, now). He was, I believe, accompanied by a couple other members of the Kalamazoo Bicycle Club. This photograph is from that excursion. Perhaps Dick will fill in some details in the comments. ------------------------------- This will be the last KBC photo for a bit. I've got more, and will resume the series at some later date....