Mama's Cedar Chest

Lowell Goins, 1956

Lowell was quite the looker in 1956 what with the treasure trail and the nice bulge in his jeans.

Eugene K Redmond (1936)

Wartburg Central High School Wartburg, Tennessee

Judy Mantooth, Kenny Redmond (Wittiest - 1964)

Class of 1964 "Superlatives"Karns High School

Katherine "Kitty" Walters, Kenny Redmond (Most Likely to Succeed - 1964)

Karns High School - Class of 1964

Becky Miller, Kenny Redmond (Junior Prom - 1963)

"Stairway to the Stars" was the first high school prom held at Knoxville's then-new Civic Coliseum.

Lowell (1956)

Lowell (ca 1956)

Lowell (ca 1956)

Vincent and Lowell (1956)

Why Don't You Look Me Up!

Scanned from a 1940s postcard in Mama's Cedar Chest "While the cat's away, the mice will play, Y'Know!"

Wiring Inspection

You Get the Picture

From the package containing negatives. 1940s

Working on the Hudson

at 326 E. Vermont Avenue in Knoxville, TN - 1946

Win the War

Wartburg, TN, 5/26/1944 The postmark and stamp on an envelope from Mrs. Glena K. Ott , Morgan County Court Clerk, bearing the deed for Dad's cemetery plots.

Watch Tower, Castle San Marcos National Monument

Scanned from a 1940s postcard in Mama's Cedar Chest "WATCH TOWER, CASTLE SAN MARCOS NATIONAL MONUMENT, ST AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA This is the main watch tower on the fort, commands a view of the ocean."

Vincent and Lowell (1956)

Tropical Palm in Florida

Scanned from a 1940s postcard in Mama's Cedar Chest

"Victory"

My mother was a steelworker during WWII. She belonged to the United Steel & Aluminum Workers - Local No. 309 in Maryville, TN. She actually operated an overhead crane in the North Plant of the Aluminum Company of America in Alcoa. And she carried a badge. Well, she carried two badges actually, this one and her employee identification badge issued by the company. She met my father at the North Plant where he was a millwright. They were married on Christmas Eve, 1944.

Treasury Street, St. Augustine, Florida

Scanned from a 1940s postcard in Mama's Cedar Chest "TREASURY STREET, ST AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA, NARROWEST IN THE U. S. 6 FEET, 1 INCH Used in Spanish period as a public highway."

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Battered Husband? Maybe he cut himself shaving. This photo was in Mama's cedar chest. My family was never known to identify for posterity the people in their pictures.

Vermont Avenue, 1947

at 326 E. Vermont Avenue in Knoxville, TN (ca.1947)

Vermont Avenue, 1947

Vermont Avenue, 1947

Dad's 1939? Hudson

Vamp

Aunt Jane (1920 - 2008) in the late 1930s

Union Carbide Corporation Nuclear Division

I grew up at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/cheneworth/2674798931/ ) then operated by UCCND. I hired in the week before Christmas in 1966 at the age of twenty and witnessed the shutdown of the historic plant in 1985. When the last gaseous diffusion cell was silenced in the K-33 building, we felt as though we were at a funeral. This commemorative pin was given to all on the payroll in 1984 when Union Carbide abandoned us to the ravages of Martin Marietta Energy Systems and thus began my quest for an early retirement. I spent the next 15 years working at the sister Y-12 Plant (affectionately known as the Bomb Factory) with everything in place to accomplish that goal except one major piece, how to continue paying the bills. When I finally discovered how to do that in 1999, I was outta there.

Unknown Male

From Dad's Lincoln Memorial University Scrapbook of 1938. Apparently somebody licked all the chocolate off his ice cream bar.

Unknown Female

From Dad's Lincoln Memorial University Scrapbook, 1938

Uncle Roy

From Dad's Lincoln Memorial University Scrapbook

Uncle Roy

From Dad's Lincoln Memorial University Scrapbook

Uncle Roy and Doug

in Grandpa's back yard, ca. 1948

Uncle Ott's Truck

Bridgeport, Tennessee, late 1940s. That's me on the left, my brother Doug just behind me and cousins. In the center background is a June apple tree. Grandma used to make some of the best apple jelly ever from its fruit. She put it in little Garret Snuff glasses and sealed them with melted paraffin.

Uncle Bill's

a work in progress. He later bricked the entire house. The house sits on a portion of the original farm Dad's family settled in Morgan County, TN in the late 1800s.

The Taylor Family

My step-brother Doug's late mother Sibyl's family.

Titanic: The Exhibition

Added to the cedar chest of old photos and memorabilia is this card from the world premiere showing of Titanic artifacts. It was indeed an impressive display.

The Roman Catholic Cathedral and Plaza

Scanned from a 1940s postcard in Mama's Cedar Chest "The Roman Catholic Cathedral of St. Augustine, Fla. Of Moorish style of architecture, was dedicated Dec. 8th, 1796. In 1887 the roofs and interior were destroyed by fire but the walls were uninjured. In rebuilding the North Wall was extended and the arms of the cross were lengthened. The Campanile was built in 1888 and contains the new Peal of Bells. The old chime still hangs in the facade, one bearing the date of 1882."

Titanic: The Exhibition

Added to the cedar chest of old photos an memorabilia is this card from the world premiere showing of Titanic artifacts. It was indeed an impressive display.

Theresa

June, 1959 And look at all the diapers on Granny's clothes line. No disposables here. Dad made this runabout by covering a 1953 Thompson cedar fishing boat with fiberglass one summer in his basement.

The Rice Mill, Norris, Tennessee

From a mid 1940s negative. That's my step-brother Doug, who was three years older than me, with his late mother's mom and dad.

The Oldest House, St Francis Street

Scanned from a 1940s postcard in Mama's Cedar Chest "Oldest House -- Property of the St. Augustine Historical Society, and Institute of Science, St. Augustine Fla. On St. Francis Street, beside the old barracks and five minutes walk from the Plaza, directly south along the Sea Wall to the end. Then look to the right and you will see The House Under four Flags. Open Daily from 8 A.M. to 6 P.M. Guides in attendance"

The Major J. T. Huff Bridge across the French Broad River

Bridgeport. Tennessee, as seen from Grandpa Bud's front porch in the summer of 1958. It was built on US 25-70 in 1922 and was recently replaced with a modern span. The gap at the top in the trees on the crest of the ridge in the background is the upper portion of a barely visible cleared pasture that the locals called "The Broadaxe" because, from this distance, the shape of the clearing resembled that common tool. By the time of my grandmother's death in 1980, the Broadaxe had been reclaimed by the trees and was only a memory. I shot this photo with my first camera. Dad bought it for me at a general store in Cocke County, when we stopped to buy bait for a fishing trip. It used 620 roll film, cost him about six dollars, and was molded from the ugliest green plastic imaginable. I loved that thing.

The Jockey-cycle

at 326 E. Vermont Avenue in Knoxville, TN I have never seen another similar vehicle. The rider pushed the pedals down to move it and the seat raised and lowered as the rear wheels rolled.

The Fountain of Youth and Cross, 1513

Scanned from a 1940s postcard in Mama's Cedar Chest "THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH is synonymous with ROMANCE, ADVENTURE, DISCOVERIES, A NEW WORLD, FLORIDA! Hidden away among the century old oaks, cedars, and magnolias, the fabled fountain of Don Juan Ponce de Leon still bubbles forth, as thousands of people are constantly finding their way to this National Shrine, following the footsteps of this famous Spanish explorer who first landed on the mainland of North America only a few hundred feet away, A. D. 1513, in his search for eternal youth."

The Jockey-cycle

at 326 E. Vermont Avenue in Knoxville, TN I have never seen another similar vehicle. The rider pushed the pedals down to move it and the seat raised and lowered as the rear wheels rolled.

The Homestead

Some time in the fifties. The chimney on the left indicates there is a coal fire in the furnace. One of my jobs was keeping the hopper full on the stoker. The house had a flat roof (complete with a sundeck) until the early seventies. The local paper published a schedule for viewing satellites in those days. I watched Sputnik from that deck.

The Front Porch

Probably about 1950. Dad later built a then-fashionable curved glass block window into that black hole on the right. This kid has never since been that skinny.

The Arch at Castillo de San Marcos National Monument, St. Augustine, Florida

Scanned from a 1940s postcard in Mama's Cedar Chest "The Massive arch, built without a keystone, is one of the finest constructions of its kind; of the Moorish design. The stairway on the right was formerly used as a ramp to transport cannon from the ground to the terreplein above. Construction was started in 1672 -- completed in 1756. Built entirely of coquina, this fortification is one of the finest preserved in the world today."

"Streamlining through Wonderful Florida"

Scanned from a 1940s postcard in Mama's Cedar Chest