The Nolan girls on Easter Sunday during the War years with their Easter bonnets on. This picture was sent to Jack so he could see their Easter bonnets.Note the post WWII picture of Jack in his suit was taken at the same angle against the same wall across from 1636 10th Ave.
This picture had a date on the back of 1929. This is what Aunt Anne wrote: "It was taken at Orange Lake-I don't remember where that was, maybe one of the Nolans do. In the back row - Nellie Dunne, my Mother holding me, Uncle Bibbie, Mamie Dunne, my Father. Front row - Eileen, Jack holding Tony-the dog, and Dinny and Marge, close friends of my Mother and Father-do not remember their last name. Mammie & Nellie were my Mother's close friends growing up in the Fourth Ward and had dinner with us every Sunday afternoon at 2. Took a bus from Bay Ridge and never missed a Sunday. Neither one was married and Nellie was the one who came to walk Jack to the Draft Board the morning he reported to leave for the Army and WWll. None of us could go because we were all home crying. (A classic Nolan story) He came home 3 years later, (safe and sound as they used to say) and the party lasted 2 days on 10th Ave."(Orange Lake is part of the town of Newburgh, NY and just northwest of West Point. Wasn't one of Grandma May's friends the pastor at Highland Falls or West Point?--J.)
Anne thinks this is from a picnic. " That is Mary and John Nolan, in the middle. Grandma May is in black because her brother Willie had died and of course John is holding her hand."( Anne told me the practice then was to wear black for a year.--J)These three pictures are courtesy of Aunt Anne and the skills of Tommy Kane.
