Photo Booth

I do not know when this was taken.
Perhaps it was the weird years when Dad travelled to construction sites for a living...seasonally.
Mom told me that when they met at University of Miami he would say "No wife of mine will work!" She always did, except while in Library school - then too. Her salary was more reliable than his.
In my imagination, this is a photo for mom, while he is off working. I may be wrong.
I could ask her, but no hurry.
This is the half-time of the biography - before the family - and there are great stories, very scrambled.
When he and his cousin emerged from the Marines - the world was their oyster - they had High School equivalency and the GI bill and smarts and were in FL. Dad says that his cousin wanted to be a Soldier of Fortune and told dad to meet him for an adventure, but Dad overslept and the adventure may have been the Bay of Pigs or related venture, because his cousin disappeared. He later said that the man was languishing in jail someplace.
Dad ended up, instead, at University of Miami on the GI bill studying Literature - James Joyce and all that. His girlfriend, he has said a thousand times - was Tina Louise. His other girlfriend was a guitarist from a kid's TV show I watched in the early 1970s, but I forget her name.
He seems to have stalked my mom, who was beautiful and from Vermont and had taffeta dresses and lived in a hotel being used as student housing at 1111 Ponce de Leon Blvd. and there was a pool there where they floted gardenias, but I get ahead of myself. More tomorrow.