Nicolazzo Family Photos, Circa 1952


While cleaning out my mother's house last Spring, I naturally came across about seventy years' worth of photographs. I didn't have time to do anything with them, except for one "contact sheet" that I just had to take a few minutes and quickly snapshot with my cellphone camera!
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Uncle Eddie - as a student; presumably the same day as the graduation photo below, but before donning his robe.
"Eddie1"
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Uncle Eddie, graduating from... high school? If this is 1952, that seems not unreasonable.
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My father Peter P. Chiesa (left) and his father Peter B. Chiesa (right), on the sidewalk in front of the family home at 321 High St., Johnsonburg.
"FatherAndSon"
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Jimmy, at the time when that was a reasonable thing to call him!
"Jimmy1"
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Jimmy again.
"Jimmy2"
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Linda
"Linda"
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Mama mia - looking sweet.
"MJPortrait1"
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Mama mia again - looking more ... businesslike? Housewife-y?
"MJPortrait2"
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Nickie, in what looks like a First Communion dress; if it is, we could nail this to the DAY!
"Nickie"
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L-to-R: Grandpa Nicolazzo, Beth Ann, Aunt Bertha (partly hidden), Jimmy, Barbara Jean
"NicolazzoKids"
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My Dad (Pete Chiesa) apparently washing glass panes in a door, in a setting I don't recognize. In 1952, could this have been my parents' apartment in Bel Air, MD, while Dad was at the Army Chemical Center? If so, this is the only photo I've ever seen of the place...
"PeteWashingGlass"
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Nickie, Susan, and Linda. Uh oh, they're not in the historically-approved order. Nickie, Susan, switch places!
"NSL"
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Uncle Frank
"UncleFrank"
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