Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: Unknown Photographer

Me, in my office, on my fiftieth birthday in 1999. Things to note: * The computer books, mostly on SQL and MSAccess. I wasn't an IT guy, but my job had geeky tendencies. * Not sure what the critter behind my shoulder was, nor how it got there. Perhaps a birthday joke. * Yes, I had a window office. In fact, I had this specific cubicle twice. * All that paper. My office was always like that. * All those pins in the pinboard. * The Coke bottles. More often they were RC bottles. * The mouse pad, atop a stack of papers and a clipboard, with a photo of Bay Furnace. Bay Furnace is near Christmas in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Really. * The Baseball America Great Ballparks calendar. * The 1999 STATS Minor League Scouting Notebook by John Sickels, on the desktop. John's books, and his email newsletters, were essential background material for my Fans Guide to the Midwest League project. * Schedules for the Michigan Battle Cats and Lansing Lugnuts on the partition in front of the window. Not sure who took the photo, but it was taken with my Nikon N90s. Photo scan by Seattle Filmworks.

Elsie & Fritz Kroeger on the roof of their home in San Diego; date and photographer unknown but probably 1950ish. Scanned from a photo, obviously; one of my mother's keepsakes. Since Mom's parents lived a couple thousand miles from Michigan I didn't see them often; the only time I visited San Diego was in the mid-1950s. Can't say I remember much about the house, or the visit; just a few episodes, mostly from the long train trip, remain in my memory. Google's Streetview shows that the house is still standing , which I find surprising. When Grandma passed away in 1988 my parents expected the house to be replaced soon after it was sold, as its neighbors had been. Obviously that didn't happen. ========== A slightly-related story: On my first day as a State of Michigan employee, we new hires got a tour of the Secretary of State Building (that's the DMV, for those of you who aren't from Michigan). The call center's supervisor wanted to demonstrate something, and asked for an out-of-state address. I volunteered 1948 Felspar in San Diego; he came up with my grandmother's name. I'm really not sure how that address got embedded in my memory, but there it is.

My mom, and her dad, on a porch somewhere in Iowa, around 1930. Today would have been Mom's 94th birthday. Probably my favorite photo in the family collection.