1970 Family Pictures

Family Pictures from 1970

On this page you will find the pictures of our family that I didn't take and which, consequently, were not part of my own album pages. As near as I and my sister can determine, the pictures on this page were taken sometime in 1970. Picture descriptions will be as accurate as possible, given that either I didn't take the picture, or wasn't present when it was taken, or was too young to remember when/where it was taken. Such actual dates as are specified were either written on the pictures or can be inferred.

January-February: At Judy's House

None of the pictures in this section had notations on them, so placing them here, early in the year, is a "best guess". Ted is about nine months old now, and that about how old he appears to be in these pictures. The first subgroup of pictures were six, sepia-toned, square pictures- undoubtedly taken with a Polaroid camera. I have added some color to these first six pictures for this year:

The next two pictures seem to have been taken at the same time. In one, I can see a reached-out hand and the fabric of a blouse that I seem to remember that my Mom had, so I assume these pictures were taken when my Mom and Dad visited Judy. Both pictures were in color and the same size (although I have cropped them for this page).

We also have a group of a half dozen pictures, all in black and white, in which Ted seems to be the same age; some of the pictures were obviously taken at the same time.

March 8: At Judy's House

In this next section, we have a group of black and white pictures, all with Ted at seemingly the same age. These pictures had the notation "3-8-70" on them. I have gathered into this group some other black and white photos, again with Ted looking pretty much the same, with some of them having the notation "Mar 70" written on them.

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There were quite a few of these pictures, so I didn't want to put them all directly on the page. The solution was to create a slideshow of them. Using the slideshow format, you are able to look at the pictures easily and quickly if you want to- with no scrolling.

To view the slideshow, just click on the image at left and I will open the slideshow in a new window. In the slideshow, you can use the little arrows in the lower corners of each image to move from one to the next, and the index numbers in the upper left of each image will tell you where you are in the series. When you are finished looking at the pictures, just close the popup window.

March 29: At Judy's House

Well, Ted is just over a year old now, and my parents have gone up to Burlington for a visit, coming away with a number of good pictures featuring Ted. The exact date was written on the pictures.

April 30 - May 1: At Judy's House

According to dates written on these three pictures, my parents have made another trip to Judy's house:

May 17: Jennifer Barbour Arrives

Well, as Judy well knows, this day has been quite a few months in the making, but it is finally here, and my niece, Jennifer, has made her debut. With the dates on the pictures, and my Mom's presence in one of them, I assume my parents have yet again visited up in Burlington. Here are my Dad's pictures that I have from that visit:

My Niece- Jennifer Barbour

While Judy was in the hospital, my Mom helped by taking care of Ted.

Note from 2025:
I would like to point out here something that I mentioned in my own section of this photo album regarding Judy and Bob's choice for "Jennifer" as my new niece's first name. About twenty years ago, I ran across a website that graphically presented the changing popularity of baby names for girls and boys, and I found the information on the first names chosen for girls over the years to be especially interesting. What I found out was that the name "Jennifer" was not very popular until 1970 when, all of a sudden, it became very popular, in fact being the most popular baby name for girls thirty-six the fifty states.

The very next year, 1971, "Jennifer" conquered an additional 7 states, becoming the most popular girl baby name in 43 of the 50 states. In 1972, there were only three states in which "Jennifer" was not the most common name: it was "Melissa" in West Virginia, and "Angela" in South Carolina and Mississippi. But in 1973, even these states capitulated, and "Jennifer" took the entire country by storm, and it was the most common girl baby name in all fifty states. And it remained so for the next four years. Only in 1979 was the streak broken as "Amanda" took over Appalachia, becoming the most popular name in five states- West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas.

But "Jennifer" didn't give up easily. Here are the number of states in which "Jennifer" remained the most chosen girl baby name in subsequent years: 1980- 42; 1981- 43; 1982- 43; 1983- 40; 1984- 27; 1985- 3. By 1986, no state chose "Jennifer" as its most common girl baby name; "Ashley" and "Jessica" were each the most commonly chosen name in about half of the states. "Jennifer" was never again to take the title in any state- at least not through 2015.

If you would like to play around with the interactive map, you can find it at:

https://msbarry.github.io/babymap

You can watch the movie play itself, or you can hit "pause" and select years manually. You can also toggle over to boy baby names.

May 23: The Growing Family

If the notations on the pictures that I have are accurate, then it is about a week later, Judy is home with Jennifer, and my Mom and Dad are, once again, visiting. The pictures with this day's notation feature, of course, the newborn and the year-old:

In this group of pictures (as has been the case elsewhen), some of the pictures are color and some seem to be black-and-white. I am not sure why this is the case; if they were all taken by one person, I would think there would not be this variation. So I don't know why this is the case, but I am going by the dates noted on many of the pictures.

Early June: My Visit to North Carolina

Well, for the first time in this part of the album (if you are looking at the pages chronologically) the pictures I have from my family were taken when I was present (at least part of the time) and also took my own pictures. In my own photo album, this is the very first picture page for the very first year, so if you have already looked at that page (https://www.rondougherty.com/photoalbum/1970/19700604/19700604.htm) you will notice that some of the people in some of the pictures match with the pictures in this section. I was visiting prior to my departure for Korea, so I won't be back this way for at least 13 months.

During my North Carolina visit, my Dad took some pictures in Charlotte, and some at my sister's house. Here are the ones taken at home in Charlotte. The first three were just pictures of my Mom:

My Dad had me put on both my uniforms (winter and summer) so he could get some pictures, and the first three with the winter duds were taken in the front yard:

One of the pictures of me in my summer khakis was taken in our kitchen, but I can't quite place where the other one was taken:

The last picture from this group that I have is of my sister and me on her front stoop in Burlington when we drove up there for a visit. The pictures on my own web page referenced above were taken when we drove up there for a visit. All the rest of the pictures on this page for this year were taken after I departed for Korea the very next week.

June 19: At My Sister's

The pictures in this section were all annotated with "6-19-70", so I assume that is correct. Jennifer is over a month old and Ted well over a year at this point. From the backgrounds, I assume these pictures were taken in Burlington at my sister's house:

Here is a good picture of Bob and Ted, and someone also took a picture of baby Jennifer.

June 22: A Party Somewhere

If these pictures weren't all annotated with "6-22-70" I might have thought that they were taken years ago. Apparently, these were taken at some sort of party, and it definitely wasn't connected to Judy and her family. I honestly don't know anything about who these people are, but if I had to guess, I would think it was some kind of function held by or held in conjuction with my Dad's work at J N Pease. Anyway, here are the pictures:

July 4: At Judy's House

Another group of pictures was labeled "7-4-70", and they were apparently taken over the July 4th holiday during which my parents went up to Burlington for another visit with Judy and her growing family.

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There are enough pictures here to make a slideshow the best way to show them to you, so that's how I'll put them on this page.

Ted and Jennifer

Here are a couple of pictures of Ted that were annotated with a date (July 18, 1970), and of course the background is our childhood home on Somerset Drive in Charlotte:

This picture was dated about a month later (August 27), and the chair and pillow that Jennifer is posed against are unfamiliar to me:

These three pictures of Ted were annotated simply "1970", and I have put them here because they were adjacent in one of the photo albums to the pictures above. And Ted looks about right for this to be sometime late in 1970:

September: My Dad Gets a New Car

Before I left for Korea in June, I had made a trip up to my sister's with my Mom. I had driven my Dad's Oldsmobile Starfire (which I liked a lot) since I had already sold my own car to my friend, Steve Lee, since I wouldn't need it for over a year. It was in September this year that my Dad traded in the Starfire for a new Buick LeSabre two-door hardtop. I found three pictures of this car among my Dad's photos, showing it parked in the driveway of the Somerset Drive house:

November at Uncle Ralph's

One has to look at clues in these pictures to place them here in the online album.

My Dad's Brother Ralph

These pictures weren't annotated with a date. Obviously, they feature my Aunt Jane and Uncle Ralph, and since my Mom is in one of them, I must conclude that my parents were together with them. None of the backgrounds are my parent's own kitchen/home, and since someone is cooking, I must assume that they were taken at Ralph's house in Atlanta.

I have only been to my Uncle Ralph's house a few times. I recall being there a couple of times as a kid, and I actually visited with my Aunt Jane after both my Dad and Uncle had died and I was on a business trip to Atlanta in the late 1970s.

Ralph and Jane's house was in northeast (just barely on the line with northwest) Atlanta, between I-85 (the road to Charlotte) and I-75.

Their house was in a small new development where the builder had laid out two streets, and named them for the NBC newscasting duo (on TV at the time)- Chet Huntley and David Brinkley. It was a very nice house, and it is still lived-in; here is a current street view:

While I am here, some interesting observations. I remember Ralph and Jane's house being much nicer than ours in Charlotte. It was more than twenty years newer (built in 1963), had central air, and a really nice location in a city that was becoming one of the country's largest. Ralph had a very good job as CEO of Colonial Pipeline (which brought petroleum from Texas to the northeast. I am writing this in 2025, and checking online the house is now worth something around $950,000.

That the pictures in this group were in the same album as these other pictures from 1970, I am assuming that this is the year for them. Finally, what Jane is cooking appears to be a turkey, and so my conclusion is that the pictures were taken on November 20th, which was Thanksgiving that year. There are six pictures to include, and here they are:

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Before we continue, a word about the other piece of real estate that figured into this album- the house we lived in on Somerset Drive in Charlotte. When my Dad bought it in 1951, five years after it was built, he paid, if memory serves, $14,000. I do recall that he told us that it was the only time in his life he got a loan for anything, and I also remember that he worked as hard as he could to pay it off quickly. Here is a current street view of that house:

When we lived there, the house looked the same- at least from the front. But when we lived there, there was a vacant lot to the south (left in the picture) and the Britt's house (only a hundred square feet larger) to the north. As you can see, this is no longer the situation. The vacant lot now sports a new, 2300 sqft house, and the Britt's house has been replaced with a much larger one (3800 sqft). Our house has been expanded, and it is now about twice the size as when I lived there. But even given that, and given what has happened to real estate in the last half-century, I am a bit surprised that it has surpassed Ralph's Atlanta house in value:

(Incidentally, my mom sold the house in the late 1970s when she moved to a condominium a few years after my Dad's death. She got, if memory serves, around $80,000 -a great price at the time.)

Christmas, 1970

The pictures in this group were all annotated, so easy to place.

Ted

These pictures were taken mostly at Judy's house, but the two with my Mom with Ted and Jennifer were taken at my parents' house in Charlotte.

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At the Saddle Club

On a number of occasions when I or my parents were visiting with Judy and her family up in Burlington, we went to the Saddle Club where Judy has been keeping her horse(s). Judy, of course, knows their names and the sequence in which she acquired and owned them, but neither my Dad nor I do, so I would have a tough time trying to label all the pictures taken there.

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But I do want to put these pictures in this online album, so I have chosen to create a slideshow of them. Using the slideshow format, you are able to look at the pictures easily and quickly if you want to. Where my sister has provided some information about the horse(s) in a picture, I have added that label to the picture.

Miscellaneous Pictures from 1970

In this section, I want to put those pictures that I cannot place by date or by event, and/or pictures that I don't have enough information to identify subject or location. A blessing would be for my father to be alive again to identify and describe the pictures he took (and to see things like smartphones and the Internet, of course).

First, here are some examples of my sister's artwork; she has always been a talented artist:

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Here are the rest of the miscellaneous pictures for this year:

I suspect that this picture was taken at Carolina Biological Supply where Judy worked as an illustrator. Exactly what she is holding up is a mystery (but could be a frog).
This is a nice picture of Judy, Ted, and our Mom.

We used to have a screened front porch, but it was redone and opened up. This was the new mailbox we got.
During one of my visits home, my Dad and I went to a camera store in Cotswold Shopping Center to pick up his Argus camera he had cleaned so I could take it to Korea.
I do not recognize either the gentleman in the picture or the background. It might be a Barbour relative.

I think this is the departure of the flight that took me to Chicago for my onward flight to Seattle and my eventual flight to Korea. If so, that would place the picture as taken on June 11th, 1970.
This, of course, is my Dad, and I assume the picture was taken in his office at JN Pease Associates.

Here are my Mom and Uncle Bud. From the background and the auto, I assume it was taken on Somerset Drive during one of Bud's visits to Charlotte.
Why my Dad thought to take a picture of my Mom trimming a shrub at a back corner of the Somerset Drive house.

In all the time I remember living on Somerset Drive, there was always a big, vacant yard to our south. This yard was owned by Mr. White, who lived on the corner of Princeton Avenue and Somerset Drive.

This is, I believe, the only picture we have of Mr. White as he was mowing this yard. You can see the three crepe myrtles that were just on our side of the property line; we had no fence between our house and Mr. White's vacant quarter acre.

In 1989, ten years after my Mom had moved out to a condo near Southpark Shopping Mall on Park Road, Mr. White must have died for the lot was sold and a new house went up on it.

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1970 Family Pictures