Jean with Rose Sterne - 1964

This could be one of the last pictures taken of my paternal grandmother, Rose Seidenbach Sterne (1874-1966), sitting in the backyard of 7620 Lafayette Avenue with Jean. No doubt Charlie took the picture, probably on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon. This being 1964, I was then 17, old enough to drive. The 1962 Pontiac in the foreground was my father's car. It had a three-speed stick shift on the column and he drove itt o work every day. The Studebaker Lark, my mother's car, also had a three-on-the-column. That was the car Wendy and I would drive when we needed one. The Lark was one of the ugliest, geekiest car every made. Our lives would have been different had we been driving a Studebaker Avanti.