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Mike in the tub in Magna. He is wearing my work hat. 1951.

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I can't express in words the love and respect that I have for my dear grandparents, John and Mary Elva Lauritzen. They were and are great people.

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That hay belonged to a man who rented the property from our landlady. That is Mike, Barry, Lynne and Robert. The dog -- one of the best dogs a boy ever had -- is Mr. Clem. He could be blocks away, but when I whistled, he would come running. One day he just didn't come back. I think he must have been killed by one of the neighbors.

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His nickname which he carried for years was "Mudpie Mike". Every chance he got he was playing in the mud -- even if he had to make the mud for himself. Spring 1951.

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We did have fun. Wonder where Mike was this day? Spring 1951 in Magna.

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My parents would have probably been arrested today for allowing their children to swim in the irrigation water. We had a ditch that flowed across the front of the property and when it was our water turn, this was the result. We often found large carp that came down the ditch into our front lawn with the water. Spring 1951.

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Barry, Mom, Lynne, Robert and Mike, Little Cottonwood Canyon. June 1951.

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Lynne, Robert, Barry and Mike in the Magna front yard. Spring 1951.

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My father standing in his garden among the peach trees in Magna. Spring 1951.

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My father was a workaholic and expected his kids to be the same. We didn't have a horse to pull the plow in his garden, so cousin Bill, myself, Lynne, and cousin Anne filled the bill. Spring of 1951.

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Another shot of the chicken coop along with some of the chickens. Also, the hay barn is to the left. We never stored hay there but did raise some turkeys who preferred to perch in the rafters at night.

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Our chicken coop just behind the house in Magna, UT. Mom's clothesline is on the left. No electric clothes dryers in those days. June 1951.

I don't have a picture, but later Dad built a platform for my pup tent just on the other side of that clothesline. I slept in that tent many nights, often accompanied by one or both of my brothers.

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Lynne, Barry, Robert and Mike in the front yard in Magna. About 1951.

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It is just a guess, but I believe this is another shot up Little Cottonwood Canyon in June 1951. I don't know whose arm that is, but the other players are Robert, cousin Bill, and Lynne.

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Another view up Little Cottonwood Canyon, June 1951. Robert, Mom, Mike, Dad and Lynne. I was the photographer, so I have no excuse for the poor quality of the shot.

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Little Cottonwood Canyon, just out of Salt Lake City. Mom, Robert, Mike, Dad and Lynne. June 1951.

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My cousin Bill Miller in my basement bedroom in Magna, UT. That helmet was a souveneir that my father sent to me from Germany, WWII. June 1951.

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My brother, Mike, in the door of the chicken coop in Magna, UT. June 1951.

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Lynne, Robert and Mike in our Magna front yard. June 1951.

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I don't remember her name, but this was out neighbor to the south in Magna, UT. Picture is taken in our front yard there. June 1951.

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Another shot of the family outing in the canyon outside of Salt Lake. About 1951.

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Robert up the canyon in Utah. About 1951.

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My sister, Lynne. About 1948.

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This is a bunch of the girls from our ward in Magna, UT. L to R top: ???Christianson, Jackie Snell, don't know the other two. L to R middle: Geraldine Riley, LaRae Thomas, Doris Thomas (the Thomas family were our next door neighbors to the north), Lynne Lauritzen. Bottom L to R: Michael Lauritzen, Robert Lauritzen. About 1953.

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Barry and Bill Miller, Pocatello, about 1950.