Looking at the pictures from my dad’s little 1940s photo album, my mom was able to identify two more than we’d previously had. (My mom and dad didn’t meet until 1950 and marry until July 1951, so it’s not unusual that she would not recognize my dad’s friends and acquaintances from a decade earlier.)
My father's father (thus, my grandfather and namesake), Paul David Skolnik.
This, she’s sure, is a photo of my grandfather (my father’s father), Paul David Skolnik. (He died in 1947, so my mother didn’t know him.) I’ve never seen a photo of him when he wasn’t wearing wire-rim glasses, so I guess this one caught me off-guard.
Morty Gaffin, my father's friend from childhood.
And this one, my mother says, is Morty Gaffin, a friend of my dad’s since childhood. The back of the picture says “Italy,” from which I’m deducing that this is a photo of Morty from his WWII service in Italy.
I’ve also tried assembling the photos serially (one after another) rather than in a continuously moving slideshow. The serial display, which is static, is located in the Photos section of the blog. You can get there directly by clicking here.