Day 2589: Happy Birthday Dad!

Dad & his Grandma, 1910, Indiana:  collage, old photo & digital

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Click here for  Luther Vandross, Dance With my Father.

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Dad died 23 years ago at age 86.
He would be 110 today.

Dad, age 5 at the fishing hole.

He always said he had the best childhood.

Later he lived through the depression & was forever frugal.

He never smoked or drank.

I never heard him swear except once, when he was

teaching me to drive & I popped the clutch in the VW!

My dad was a driver, Greyhound buses, Yellowstone & 
later he chauffeured movie stars to work & back home. 

He had a lot of name dropping & stories.

He made the Olympic diving team when younger

but got TB and had to spend time in recovery.

A heartbreak. He loved to dance & tell stories.

Father's Day, 1975, Yorba Linda, CA

He had wanted a boy, but got me.

He always called me Jack.

Happy Birthday Dad!

For Throwback Thursday on Wednesday ...

Dad at age 80, 1990, Hong Kong.

I don't think I ever saw my Dad happier than 

riding that "Junk" in Hong Kong Harbor.

  He said "it was just like in the movies."

A smile for Wednesday ...