1964 – My Dad's Photos

Famous Person Alert

03/01/201112/04/2020 By shendyNo Comments

I had to be told as I wouldn't have guessed, but this is Lesley Joseph in the Masque Theatre's 1964 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream - she wasn't quite 20.Other subsequently famous people to have been at the Masque -Michael Green (author of The Art of Coarse Acting) was a member around 1950, Marc Warren, and Alan Carr was in one production....

Christmas 1964

26/12/201012/04/2020 By shendyNo Comments

Photos from the two sides of the family at Christmas 1964:My father's father unwrapping presents on Christmas morning.Mother's family - Mother and her sister (more of whom shortly)This is Mother's father - there aren't many photos of her family, so it's good to find the ones that my dad took of them. He never met SWMBO, missing her by only a couple of years, but the general view is that he would have liked her.And this is her mother (on the left) - there will be even fewer of her, as she died in the early 1970's - I only have a vague recollection of her....

Strut that funky stuff…

26/12/201012/04/2020 By shendyNo Comments

Was it really September when I last posted? Oops. As the Masque Theatre is rapidly heading towards its 80th anniversary (it's actually in 2012, but they've started preparing nice and early), Mother asked me to dig out all of the Masque negatives I could find. I don't think anyone (least of all me) was quite expecting somewhere in the region of 400 films that I delivered a couple of weeks ago! Fortunately, now that I've handed over all of the Masque negs, they become an SEP (Someone Else's Problem - Douglas Adams) and I can concentrate on the rest of the archive. Anyway, I was trying to work out where I'd got up to on the blog, and found some older pics that I passed over previously. Dancing at a couple of Masque parties in 1964....

Er, OK

18/09/201012/04/2020 By shendyNo Comments

No, I have no idea why my dad is having a bath wearing a hat either....

Cefalu

18/09/201012/04/2020 By shendy1 Comment

In September 1964, the parents went on a 3-week Club Med holiday to Cefalu in Sicily. I believe that it was on a 3 weeks for the price of 2 end of season deal, and they both had to take some unpaid leave to make use of the third week. There's quite a few photos in this post, but it was a substantial holiday. It was a proper straw hut Club Med affair with communal dining, out in the open air. There are loads of photos of people water-skiing - strangely, quite a few of them appear to be of bikini-clad young ladies... Interesting seas for swimming And this just looks plain dangerous! Nice view for sunsets And we couldn't finish without a nice colour shot of bronzed 1960's types in bikinis, could we?...

Mother

28/08/201012/04/2020 By shendy1 Comment

A couple of Mother from 1964. Not really sure what's going on in this one - it looks like she might be taking some medicine. She still pulls faces like that if you feed her cheap red wine. A look, she's using a mangle. A mangle! I thought they went out in the 1800s. I know she's old, but even I didn't think she was that old....