At some point within the past 15 years I was given a couple of photo albums with misc., childhood photos of my father that also included a number of photos of Mary Jane and Austin just living. Below are a but a handful of those photos and shows what life was like for the young couple. My guess is that most of these were taken either in Eastern Canada or the coast of Maine with the exception of the photo of Austin on the beach in FL. I can only speculate that this photo was taken when he met his crew prior to shipping off to England to fight in the war. I will also take a guess that the child in these photos is of my father and their first born child, Darl. Most of them are not identified on the back, those that are I've included what's written.
Austin at Sarasota Beach, FL. "The birds would catch every peanut that was thrown their way."
Austin at Ganden (sp?) Lake. (child really resembles Darl in photos at that age.)
Austin on Coal Boat (could also read Caal Boat?)
Austin making ice cream.
Austin on the wharf at Catalina.
Mary Jane fishing.
The photo below was not marked on the back like so many I pulled from the two albums. It shows their Christmas tree along with a photo of Austin in uniform in front and their marriage photo hanging high on the wall in the background. There are also a bunch of toys under the tree which I can only assume were for either Darl or Darl and Karen.
