These fascinating color pics from Joel Dinda were taken by his father Roger Dinda that show everyday life of his family in the 1950s and 1960s.
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| Dinda family picnic, 1954 |
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| Hatti and Rog, 1954 |
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| Me and mom with my baby brother, January 1954 |
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| On my fifth birthday, February 1954 |
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| Debbie with baby Richard at Grandma and Grandpa's house, 1305 Palmer Avenue in Kalamazoo, January 1954 |
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| George Benwire at our house on Beacon Street in Kalamazoo, January 1954 |
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| Joey at Milham Park, 1954 |
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| Joey on ice, 1954 |
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| Milham Park in winter, Kalamazoo, January 1954 |
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| Rog and Richard, January 1954 |
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| Dad was a firefighter with the Kalamazoo Fire Department for most of the 1950s, July 1955 |
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| The kids on a bridge, Crum Park, I think, which used to be north of Galesburg, Michigan, 1955 |
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| Debbie, Joey, Dick and mom. This would be at Lake Michigan, likely Miami Beach or Deer Lick Point near South Haven, circa 1956 |
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| My mother Hatti in a tree at Crum Park, north of Galesburg, Michigan, June 1956 |
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| At the beach, South Haven, circa 1957 |
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| Debbie and Joey and a bunch of bluegill fillets. Community fish fries were a regular feature at Fishers Lake in the fifties, circa 1957 |
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| My dad, Rog in a boat. It's likely this is Fishers Lake, near Three Rivers, where the family usually vacationed when we kids were young, circa 1957 |
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| The kids on a drift, Lake Michigan, circa 1957 |
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| My Mom Hatti (Harriett Dinda), a fallen tree, and Lake Michigan, 1957 |
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| My mother Hatti, and her brother Russ Kroeger in our house on Palmer Avenue in Kalamazoo, March 1958 |
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| The Dinda kids in the late summer of 1959 |
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| The Dinda men, late summer of 1959 |
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| The Dinda women, 1959 |
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| Debbie, Dick, (frowning) Joel at the Ted Krogh residence in Carroll, Iowa, June 1960 |
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| Atop Miners Castle, July 1961 |
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| Probably Yankee Springs, 1961 |
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| Walking on the dune at Warren Dunes State Park. Lake Michigan in the background, 1961 |
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| Babe, Paul, and the kids, 1962 |
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| Fisher Lake sunset, 1962 |
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| Hatti, the 1960 Ford Falcon, and a picnic table, circa 1962 |
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| My father Roger Dinda at work at this desk in Upjohn Company's Building 89, 1962 |
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| Tahquamenon Falls, September 1962 |
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| Dicky amongst the lupine, at Yankee Springs State Recreation Area, 1963 |
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| Joey and the Apache, Wilderness State Park on the Straits of Mackinac, October 1963 |
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| The Mackinac Straits Bridge. Fort Michilimackinac in the foreground, 1963 |
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| Me (with the backpack), my Dad (Rog), and brother Richard on Cannon Mountain in New Hampshire's Franconia Notch, 1964 |
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| Brook Lodge, the Upjohn family estate, north of Augusta, Michigan, 1966 |
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| Debbie, and Lake Michigan's in the background, 1966 |
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| 1318 Palmer, Kalamazoo, January 1967 |
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| March Street Hill, Kalamazoo, January 1967 |
