This is a scan of a photocopy of a newspaper photo. Probably 1958 or '59. I'm standing in the back of a Red Arrow freight truck. Below and in front of me are Junior Hendricks, the driver, W. L. Fulwiler, manager of the J. C. Penney store where we're unloading, and Thedford Rhodes, the stock room manager. The boxes contain 300 women's coats for the annual "J. C. Penney Coat Caravan." Thed's nephew, Ray Rhodes, who's not in the picture of course, went on to become an NFL star player and later a coach. 

On the way to school for the first time. Without shoes. 

Two-gun kid, around 1947. Also in the picture are the neighbors' dog, Pal, and my bother, Bob. I wish I still had those pistols and that hat. I do have the chaps, which my father bought at the 1936 Texas Cetennial Exposition in Dallas.

Frances Brodnax Crider, my mother, at age 2-1/2, summer, 1920. 

This was a place near our hotel it Cuzco in January 2005. Why don't we have high-tech places like this in the U.S.? Or maybe we do.

I was born on my father's 26th birthday, July 28, 1941. Here we are a year later. 

Six cousins. Michelle, Angela, and Sunday. Scott, Sarah, and Allen. 

Angela and I at Mando Falls, not far from Machu Picchu. 

My parents, Billy and Frances Crider, undated photo. 

Me, about 1947. 

My parents, Frances and Billy Crider, 1953.

Gardenias in our back yard. 

My mother and father, me, Judy, Jimmy Fulwiler, Francelle, and Freckles (a good dog) in 1966. We're in the back yard of my parents' house at 401 S. McKinney, Mexia, Texas. 

Bill, Angela, and Judy at Machu Picchu, December 31, 2004. 

Francelle, me, Bob, and Drift (a good dog) around 1955. 

Here Angela and I are in front of a cathedral in Cuzco, Peru, late December 2004. 

Angela with Nancy and Robert Romig, 1985. My how time flies. 

I'm holding Allen in front of our new house in Brownwood. Dig the glasses and the cool sideburns. This is 1971 or '72.

This is a shot of me and Walter Funk, my roomie for four years at The University of Texas at Austin. This was taken around 1960, and we're standing on the observation deck of the Tower. 

Here I am with a few of my books around 1980. 

Here Judy and I are sometime around 1964. Check out my cool belt. 

No Photos Yet

For some reason or other, I thought I might start a blog where I could post some photos. I haven't taken any photos to post yet, but I might begin with some older ones. Or maybe I won't post anything at all. We'll have to wait and see.