Kim Berry - The 1960sSee Also:
After my father got his MS degree from Dartmouth College, we moved back to Sacramento for awhile. We moved to Reno in about August 1961 because my father accepted an offer of a research fellowship in physics. We found and bought the house at 1521 Hillside Drive before school started in September 1961. (See the photo further down about the new house.) We bought the house because we could not find a rental suitable for a family. The house cost $19,600 with a $600 down payment. The fellowship provided enough money for us to live on until Ed got his Ph.D. in June 1965. I attended Nursery School at the UNR Child Development Lab in 1962, then started kindergarten at Orvis Ring in 1963. See Education. Among my first memories of television was watching the assassination and funeral of John F Kennedy, November 22, 1963, on black/white TV with only channels 4 (NBC) and 8 (CBS) both running the same thing. (this was the shape of TV screens in the 60s. Slowly through the 1970s they became more square.)
I remember 1963 when my sister was born. Here's photos of the three of us in 1966 and 1999. I believe that I took this photo (note the camera angle) of my mother in 1961 at our home in Sacramento on College Oak :
As if we didn't have enough of snow in New Hampshire, here's my "mother of the year" allows me to eat dirty snow at a ski area in the Sierras in February 1961:
Jay was born September 1960. In April 1961, he was still safely in his cage.
By May 1961, Jay was joining me in the back yard swimming pool:
August 1961: Kim with Carole in backyard at new house on Hillside Drive in Reno. (Within few years, we had turned these nice rose gardens into mud play-areas.) I lost my one shoe.
November 1961 - Kim inside Hillside Drive.
Photo with same lamp September 2011
It wasn't always a spring day. Here I am age 3 1/2 with dog Wendall (age 4 months) in winter 1962:
1962 Ed pushing Kim and Jay in swings - location unknown - possibly on our trip
to the Oregon coast where I got swamped by a wave.
July 1, 1962, Uncle Scott Wallace visits us, in front of Hillside Drive (Jay, Kim, Ed)
July 14, 1962, Kim and Jay hike to Donner Peak
July 14, 1962, Kim and Ed on Donner Summit - I-80 under construction (not opened) in background
Carole with cat Tan-Tan, Kim, Jay, and dog Ivan, November 1962, Hillside Drive backyard.
Kim cleans the backyard into Jay's playpen - I remember doing this, thought it was pretty funny
I remember this too, we each took a photo of the other one running - I took this photo:
And Ed took this one of me:
In 1962-1963 UNR mounted a time-lapse camera on our house that photographed the construction of the Planetarium. This was either me or Jay on the ladder we used to change the film rolls. See Kim on roof of UNR Planetarium.
November 23, 1962, Jay, Kim, and Tan-Tan next to the camera support - Kim holding a telescope
Kim and Jay with our Grandparents, around 1962
Kim and Jay working on the petal-car
Punching Bags - Christmas Presents - likely taken or or shortly after Christmas Day.
Kim and Ed made this snowman in April 1963 (when Ingrid was born):
May 3, 1963, Kim and Susan, Beverly, Steven Hill, backyard Verner Avenue, Grandparents' house - Sacramento
Jay and Kim (with the pinwheel), May 4, 1963, back at Hillside Drive, Reno.
June 1963 - Jay, Ingrid, and Kim
For some reason my parents took 2-month old Ingrid on a hike to the top of Mount Evans, Colorado, elevation 14,260 on June 9, 1963. Probably when it came down to it, they didn't have the heart to do what needed to be done...
So in October 1963 Kim had a sister to tease
January 1964 - Kim and Jay on Hillside Drive - we probably got matching sweatshirts and pants for Christmas.
April 12, 1964, Kim at Fairytale Town in Sacramento. (I recall my grandmother
always hit her head on the entrance - and running the crooked mile.)
This is me hunting Easter Eggs 1966 in backyard of 1521 Hillside Drive, Reno. The dog is Mandy, the mother of what would be my dog Arthur from 3rd grade through age 25.
In summer 1966 (or perhaps 1967) my father used UNR's (Desert Research Institute) Cessna 206 to fly us to Southern California. Here we arrived in El Monte Airport. (Note this is a few hours before the photos of the three of us in 1966 and 1999 was taken.) On the return flight I "flew the airplane" by holding the altitude and heading from Minden to past Carson City, Nevada.
STAR TREK! Start Trek was my favorite show when it was first run around 1968 and i was in 4th through 6th grades. My friend Lee Heiman was also a fan. We made phasor guns out of wood, including "set to stun" - even cut star trek triangle emblem out of tin can and soldered a safety pin on it so it could hook on shirt. We only had B/W TV at that time. Lee and I both assembled models of the Enterprise from this AMT kit (still available in eBay and such):
We were fans of the Reno Air races. This is my "vari-vue" badge for the 1968 Reno Air Races:
From 1960 through 1968 we had a 1960 International Travelall. It was like an SUV - even through there was no such thing back then. Here future model Ingrid poses in front of the Travelall around 1967:
One time there was antifreeze in the back yard when my father was working on the Travelall. My mother told my brother "Don't drink out of that container." So being a good boy he went in the house and got a glass, and drank it out of the glass. Jay Scott had to go to emergency to have his stomach pumped, almost died. August 1965 we stop for picnic at Walker Lake on the way to Los Angeles.
August 1965: My first trip to Disneyland! Here I'm driving the cars. I recall the "house of the future" and of course the Matter-horn and submarine rides. (I also recall that the smog was worse back then.)
???, Kim, Ingrid, and Jay at Griffith Observatory in LA, August 1965
We visited Carole's mother and step-father
1966 - Carole liked Siamese cats. Here Nutmeg and Ginger enjoy the sun in the dining-room window at Hillside Drive
Around third grade, my parents got into sail boating, so we went to Pyramid Lake and Lake Tahoe often. Here's me and my brother at Zephyr Cove at Lake Tahoe around 1967:
Backyard at Verner Avenue house around 1967: JK, Carole, Edwin F, Sharon, Kim
In 1968 we traded in the 1960 Travelall for a new 1968 model that had four-wheel drive. Here is a trip to Turlock, California in 1968 with sailboat Lido 14 (# 3018), visiting my father's brother JK. Kim is in white t-shirt. Brock is setting on trailer and Blake has the football. JK and Sharon are in background. We went to Turlock for the Lido 14 Pacific Coast Championships at Turlock Lake. My parents won. They had been sailing only about 4 months and beat all the old California Lido 14 pros all the way from LA and San Diego.
In Summer 1969 we drove to Alberta, Canada for a combination vacation and for my father's work studying weather. During the week that Neil Armstrong (and the other guy) walked on the moon, July 20, 1969, we were living in a campground on Prince Edward's Island in the middle or Calgary, Canada. We went to the hotel of one of my father's co-workers to see it on TV.
We stopped at the Continental Divide on the trip to Calgary
Camping in Kootenay National Park
July 20, 1969, Kim at campground in Calgary's Prince Edward Island when Apollo 11 was on the moon.
We returned with a second sailboat, a "Fireball," shown here at the KOA campground in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Jay is playing with Greg the rat who accompanied us on the vacation.
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