Mom's Slide Set 1

Mom's Briefcase containing 12 Airequipt-Style Slide Sets

The 12 Aluminum Slide trays fit in custom briefcase

End view of the cardboard tray holder and the slide tray

... one slide is partially pulled out. NOTE: both the tray and cardboard box are labled.

Slide Tray #1 ... Lable on End: 1. 1949 -1950 2414 Bauman

A special slide projector was required to handle these trays Slide jams were eliminated since slides can't warp!

Typical labeling on each slide ... (the 1-1 is mine)

Slide 1 of set 1

Aluminum slide holder ... hard to slide in and remove

Needless to say, it is a lot of work to remove 432 slides ... good fingernails or tweezers required.

May 1950 - Pop on the porch and Mom in New Pontiac

2414 Bauman Street, Omaha, Nebraska. Last time I drove by the house, it looked very well kept. A sign in the front yard proclaime, "I LOVE MY CHURCH" ... looks like my bike to the left of the porch.

Dec 49 - Pa & Ma Eckert ... (Elaine just behind Ma?)

Miller High Life beer? . "If you have the time ... we have the beer!"

Oct 1949 - Licile Eckert at home

Dec 1949 - Our Front Room 2414 Bauman

Dec 1949 - Our Front Room 2414 Bauman

Barrel chair to the left ... loved this chair

Dec 1949 - Max, in comfort 2414 Bauman

More likely, Max would be reading the Police Gazette ... note small radio below the zebra lamp. Wonder if the magazine, lower center, is a union peridical for railway clerks ... Max was the "Store" Clerk at the roundhouse ... he knew double-entry bookkeeping.

Dec 1949 - Corner of our basement room

Dec 1949 - Our Piano Show Room - Basement

I watched Max pound the holes with a star drill for lead anchors to which studs were mounted before instlling wall boards.

12-27-49 ... Lucille & Pappy

Dec 1949 - Mom Lloyd

12-25-49 ... Xmas Day

12-25-49 ... Our dinner table Christmas

In the basement ... our piano showroom.

12-25-49 ... Mom - Max Eugene & Pop at Christmas dinner

NOTE: our dog's blue ribbon ... only Peke at the show!

12-25-49 ... Folks - Naomi - Max & Steve ... our Christmas dinner

Living room ... was it dinner in the basement and dessert in the living room?

No caption - Steve, cousin Barb Diehl & Elaine

Barb put herself through college with her prize pigs in 4-H. I got to show one of her pigs while visiting their farm in York, Nebraska ... only got 2nd place, my fault!

June 1950 - Jean Gadnitz & Skipper

Once a year, skipper would have a carnival in their back yard. Used-comic books were among the prizes. He and the neighbor boy, Gary Chastain, had a tin-can/string telephone rigged up between the two houses.

June 1950 - Jean Gdanitz and her roses ... Jean spent her life pulling crab grass. Max had a long story about his difficulty in dealing with her name and it's spelling.

June 1950 - Jean Gdanitz and her roses