We've had this picture up in our dining room for a long time. Just relocated it when I introduced the new Irwin pastel picture and moved things around.
On the back is written in Lanays's handwriting.
Dennis Christening picture (5 mos old) 1953 taken by Bill Ransdell (his godfather)
Lanaya, age 26, holding baby Dennis, big baby in his mother's lap. Lanaya, always photogenic. Their friend Bill Randsdell took many pictures of Lanaya and sold some of them for commercial use.
We liked Bill Randsdell a lot, he was part of Jim's 'Alki Boys' crowd. He had a beloved first wife who died young and two children. With some crazy romantic attachments afterwards (including Marni Nixon, a celebrity singer). Jim and Dennis were very sad when we realized he had died and we hadn't known.
But it's a nice period picture of it's time and deserves a place on the wall.
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