King Family Photos

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The captions below each slide are Howard Jr.'s commentary. Some of the longer ones run into the next caption.

Space Needle, Seattle WA. A structure left from an earlier Worlds Fair.

The first of the rotating views form the top of the Space Needle. We enjoyed a lunch here atop the Needle and later went out on the …

… observation platform.

Moving to the right from the frame before.

Looking closely on the horizon to the left of center and you see Mount Rainier.

A bought slide where the photographer has used a long distance lens; Mount Rainier is easily discerned.

Looking down on the city; having moved right of the Mt. Rainier vista.

Judy and Mark look out over the city and harbor of Seattle from the observation deck of the Space Needle.

Another view south from the observation deck of the Space Needle.

Museum of Science in buildings left from the Worlds Fair. Howard holds the menu for the restaurant atop the Space Needle. …

… Judy, Trudy, and Mark are to his right.

The inner court and fountains of the Science Museum.

Breakfast on a beautiful morning at Grants Pass, OR. Behind the photographer (Thelma) was a river waterway. This … (a)

Our first redwood grove is most impressive to one and all. Thelma caught us all doing our ‘thing’. This tree bears the name …(b)

(a) … was one of our favorite spots.

(b) … Sol G. Simpson, it is 286 feet high, has a diameter of 10 and 1/2 feet and has a circumference of 33 feet.

Although touted to be the tallest tree, this one is not as tall as the one we showed on the … (c)

By now this might giant may have fallen. Given its center of gravity, height, weight, etc.

Enter through this old tree into a normal gift and curio shop.

Looking up through the bowers of a grove of redwoods.

A purchased slide shows how a road becomes truly one way around one of the giant trees.

Looking between two giant trees we see a third. But also note a fallen giant inbetween.

Cabrillo Lighthouse – a national monument near San Diego.

Visitors’ center and navy ships seen from Cabrillo Lighthouse.

(c) … last slide. Of course it could be the tallest for that particular grove. It was a surprise to us all that the redwood trees are not contained in one forest, but in a series of groves along the coast.