The photo on the top of the page is not mine but was taken by Dennis Mook (The Wandering Lensman) when we had brunch with Kathy and him in Smithfield last Saturday. So this has turned out to be our official 50th Anniversary photo. Please don’t tell Dennis his rate will escalate and I still have to figure out how to pay for this showing.

The other photo was a quick shot of where Cindy lived from the age of 7 until college. There was a big tree in the yard and all of that parking was grass then. She and her Aunt B occupied the upper floor and used the door on the right side of the house. She lived just over 8 miles from me and I made that 20 minute drive a lot. I also worked just a bit past her house at the American Family Raceway where I started before they opened helping to stock and assemble tracks and often managed the store for my boss, Ralph. Sometimes when Cindy was at college I would spend the night at her house, Aunt B was great, because it was occasionally very late or very bad weather. One of my memories of this place is sitting on her couch with Cindy and Christy Monroe, a college friend of Cindy’s, while we watched the first moon landing in 1969.

That stoop, as we called them in Pittsburgh, in front of the door is where Cindy and I shared our first kiss. I still remember that 56 years later.