Family Pictures

I received a packet of pictures recently from the wife of my cousin, Jim.  She has been going through his things to decide what to keep and what not.  I think he had likely inherited them from his mother.  I recalled seeing a couple before, but most were new to me.  Many had notes on the back, usually in my mother's hand, which included the date the pictures were made.

There is no date on the back of this picture of my mom and the date of the Time cover is not visible.  I''m pretty sure it was made in the mid-1940s.
 

My half-sister at two in our Eastgate house; she came along fifteen years after me.

Early 1950s.  My stepfather, my mother, my uncle and me eating.  We are in the West Seattle house my mother helped my grand-parents to buy.  The leg and elbow on the right likely belonged to my grandfather as he always sat in that chair to watch tv.  It's a flash shot, probably not from the only family camera I remember from those days which was my grandfather's Kodak folder.  I don't know who made it.  It is a pretty silly picture for several obvious reasons, but it contains a great mystery.  I am wearing glasses!  I don't remember putting on a pair of glasses  before I got some readers at about the age of 60.  No way now to know the real story.