Album 2 Part 8

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1944 Christmas at 3149 S. Karlov -- Ed, Dot, Bert
Don was in the Army in Germany, Bob in Air Force training in Denver, Larue in Seattle with Navy husband Ken.
Bert was 14 years old. This was another lonesome time during the war.

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This and the previous picture were taken from the living room with the dining room in the background.
Note the upright piano on the far wall of the dining room, with family picture on top of it.

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Those aren't happy Christmas faces. The war took its toll on everyone, mostly Don.
He wasn't the same happy Don when he returned from Germany.

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More sadness, but this happens to be an excellent picture of Ed, sadness and all.
Note the pencil in one vest pocket and a pen in the other -- definitely an engineer!
Also note his ever-ready pack of Lucky Strikes in a lower pocket.

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Ed Lindberg family vacation in Duluth, Minnesota.
Very back row: Lawrence Grandchamp, Don's head behind Bob, Louise Lindberg Gibeaud (Ed's sister),
Middle row: George Lindberg, Jr., Florence (Snooky, Lawrence's girlfriend), with hand on Louise's daughter,
Bob Lindberg, and Clarann Lindberg (twin of George Jr.),
Front row: Boy of Louise, Bert with arm around John Lindberg, two more of Louise's boys.

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Same occasion, the older folks.
Top: Ed, his sister Rose, mother Hedwig, brother George,
Bottom: Ed's sisters Rachael, Louise, and Astrid.
Only Vinton (deceased) and Larue (in Milwaukee) are missing of John and Hedwig's eight children.

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Bert, Don, Ed and Bob, probably at Astrid and Harvey's cottage outside Duluth.
Happiness returned after war ended. Larue was married and not available for this vacation in 1946.

This, and the next several pictures, were taken by Larue while on a two-week vacation to Duluth with self-earned money. She was 18 and the year was 1943. She rode on a Pullman car, slept in the bottom bunk, and ate in the dining car, which had white tablecloths and high-class service. A dinner featuring tongue cost about $1.50, an astronomical price in those days. The pictures are all in the George Lindberg front yard.

Note Larue's hair style. She had graduated high school in January of 1943 and gone to Wright Junior College in northwest Chicago only five days after graduation. She wanted a new look, so had bravely defied the hair styles of the day (see Clarann and Gwen's styles). Larue's was Andrews Sisters style (a famous singing trio during the war years). As shown in these pictures, she parted her hair in the middle, cut the bangs and totally dispensed with hairpins, barrettes and so on, or excess curls. Simplicity, simplicity. On the first day of matriculation at the college she was asked to rush for the two most influential sororities on campus. By the end of the first week of actual classes many of the other female students were wearing the same hair style. What a lift for a girl who had spent all of high school as a first class wall flower. She was asked at the end of rush season to pledge both sororities. It was an agonizing decision because both were so great. She finally decided to go with the biggest, Alpha Beta Mu.

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Larue, 19 years, visited Miami, Florida where her fiancé Ken was in Naval training.

Larue paid her own way for this trip with money earned making B-29 bomber engines. Her task was inspecting the inside diameters of bores in the rear supercharger and supercharger covers. She was working because the Navy had taken over Wright College as a training center. Larue was trying to earn money to go to another college, then met Ken.

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Bob Lindberg and Bob Mackall in 3149 side yard.
They've been best friends to this day (2003) at 78 years old.
Note ladder to roof -- it was re-tarred and pebbled that day.

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Bob Mackall knocking heads of Bob and Bert Lindberg.
They're on the roof of 3149 with the houses across the alley in the background.
It had just been re-tarred and re-pebbled that day, and a special opportunity to stand on it.

This was a flat roof, which is unusual for this snowy part of the country because it promoted high snow loads. Edward Slack, Dot's father who had the house built, had 8 children and intended to build a second floor, but never did. Whether for financial reasons or because the eldest child, Ada, died at age 23 and the two next eldest married and moved away, making extra room not as necessary, is unknown. Dot's husband Ed always dreamed of building a second floor, or at least putting skylights in because the house was so dark. The size of the house as it was, 2900 square feet with four bedrooms, was adequate for his family. Edward Slack had the house foundation and framing built to carry a second floor.

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Still horsing around. Bob M. with Bert's arms and Don Goetz and Bob L. with his legs.

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Jump to Michigan. Standing: Fred Lemin, daughter Mary, Rose Lindberg Lemin.
Seated: Grandma Hedwig, Rose's son John Lemin with newborn son, and Grandpa John Lindberg
Probably taken at the Lemin house in Michigan

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Elizabeth Anne Slack, Dot's mother, holding baby Dorothy Rosalie
at Ed and Dot's home in Gwinn, Michigan, 1920.