How We Spend Our Summer--Past and Present

at a family party...Michael, Rosie and Tommy

with a Bud... Dr. Tom, Uncle Tom and Aunt Anne

on the merry-go-round... Mary Rita and her mom

at the pool... Mary Rita

on a cruise...Eileen, Mary Kate and Courtney

and staying cool... Rich and Tommy

August 1973 Family Party at 29 Sherman

After the famous trip to Florida and Disney World, there was a party at 29 Sherman.

From left to right, Uncle Tom Quinn, Uncle Tom Kane, Nancy, Rich, Uncle George Munch and Ken.

Ken: From the '60s to '80s

Bishop Ford High School graduation, 1966

Mary Ellen's Confirmation, May 1972 with Nancy, Mary Ellen and flowers

With Nancy at 29 Sherman, 1973, before taking Mary Ellen to Montes

Wedding

At the Cirritos, 1976, Christmas, with Nancy, Elly and Mary E

Graduation from Law School, 1978?

With Kenny

With Caitlin

Another Angle on a Family Party

Here's another classic family party picture, from a different perspective.

Summer at the Beach

There were a few summers at Shady Lake and trips to Budd Lake and Fayson Lake but for the Nolans most summers were spent at the beach: Riis Park, Breezy or the the Long Shore Beach Club, just east of the Breezy bungalows. It was/is a family tradition ; the Quinns had a cabana at the Breezy Point Surf Cub then; now Rich does.

One constant at Riis or the Long Shore was the scotch cooler below. Elly would fill it with ice, a few sandwiches and some fruit. We head off in the car, fighing as always, compete to be the "first to see the bridge" and eventually lug the cooler to the beach where a few hours later we'd have "a peach at the beach."

Here are some pictures of the Nolans of Brooklyn at the beach.

Scotch Cooler

Eileen and George and Georgie. Look at those cigarettes!

Obviously, there was more ice than food in that cooler, as our ribs show.

Rich, Eileen, Courtney, Mary Kate and Jack at Breezy

Mary E and Rich

Nancy

From 1962: Kanes, Nolans, Elly and Jean Sullivan

Here are two classic pictures from 45 years ago, 1962.

Rich, Mary Ellen and Tommy, Bobby, Mary Anne and Terry Kane on Wingate Drive in Bethesda, Maryland.

Elly with the famous Jean Sullivan and Eileen in the battle of the furs.

Is that Joanie and Helen Quinn on the left?

Eight Pictures of Jack (Heado) Nolan

Thanks to Anne and to Elly's archives, here are some pictures of Jack

In high school

With Bud Pope in WWII

In the backyard WWII

The back of the photo reads: The linkup, Avignon France July 1 1945

With the guys, after the war. That's Heado on the far left and Pete Butchere in the stipped tie in the front row. Anne says he got the name "Heado" from Coogan Woglom, because of his large head size. The Army had to search for a helmet that fit Heado.

With Mary Ellen on Sherman Street

With Mary Ellen in 1969, Newport RI

On the way to W.R. Grace