Rochester - June, 1945

In June, 1945, the War In Europe had finished a few weeks earlier with the surrender of Germany. In the Pacific, fighting against Japan continued unabated. President Franklin Roosevelt had died two months earlier; the untested Harry S. Truman was President. In two months, Truman would order the use of the newly-developed atomic bomb against Japan.

In late May, my parents celebrated the birth of their first child, Elisabeth. They lived in the city of Rochester, NY at the time but would soon move out to the countryside some 25 east of the city. My father was 33 and worked as a chemist at the Eastman Kodak Company. My mother was 29.

I was some six years away....a vague twinkle in my father's eye, as they say.

These pictures were scanned from two relatively well-preserved 35 mm color slides from my parents collection. God bless Kodachrome!