Fabulous Kodachrome Photos Show a Boy Growing up in the 1950s California

John Sievers’s father captured these spectacular Kodachrome photos during his childhood. These slides show people dressed up and participating in some special occasion. John also found pictures of his home in Bellflower, California, Christmas, Thanksgiving, mom, uncle Dwight Sievers, and his cars at the Lions Drag Strip in Long Beach, California, kit flying, family, and road trips.

#1 Our family Thanksgiving in 1951 with my three grandparents and my brother while Dad takes the photo.

I’m the little guy in my Mom’s arms.

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#2 Me and my older brother reading Donald Duck books with our stuffed animals, 1954

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#3 Stopping to take photos in California’s High Sierra mountains, 1957

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#4 Let’s Go Fly a Kite Me and my brother. Bellflower, California, 1955.

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#5 Camping in Yosemite in 1955.

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#9 John, 4, and his older brother in Tomorrowland, 1955

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#11 John now leaves Disneyland behind.

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#15 There’s a lot to enjoy in this one. Me and my older brother, Jim, somewhere in Southern California, 1954.

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#16 Dad’s photographic portrait of my mom, 1954.

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