January 18, 1951. "Patricia Murphy's Candlelight Inn restaurant. Manhasset, Long Island, New York. Garden Room." This was one of several Candlelight Inns operated by New York restaurateur Patricia Murphy (1905-1979), whose culinary trademark was the freshly baked popover. 4x5 inch acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. View full size.

Philadelphia, 1904. "Land Title Trust Building, Broad Street." The umpteenth appearance on these pages of this early skyscraper. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative. View full size.

August 1954. Antibes, French Riviera. "The Sporting Look -- Beachwear. Sunbathers at the Eden Roc, Côte d'Azur." 35mm Kodachrome slide by Toni Frissell. View full size.

Circa 1910. "Post office -- Annisquam Station, Gloucester, Massachusetts." Plus, a Fish Market. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

June 18, 1960. "Rowing, Harvard-Yale Regatta. Crew race at New London, Connecticut." Here we are back aboard the Versatile, quaffing cocktails on the Thames with Cabin Boy and the Catch of the Day. Can he reel this one in? 35mm Kodachrome by Toni Frissell. View full size.

New York circa 1910. "East River bridges from the Singer Tower" -- the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg spans. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Lenox, Massachusetts, circa 1910. "Entrance driveway to the Hotel Aspinwall." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

It's seventy years ago in Idyllic Larkspur™, where we find me (bottom left corner) with Bob, David, Bob, Jim, Jim, Margaret, Sandy, Donna, Rae Ann, Roberta, Virginia, Jerry, Buzzy, Fred, Gordy, Frances, Alice, Alice, Sheila, Mrs. Madeline Drew and others whose names I forget. This was taken within a month of losing nearly half our classmates, they having been siphoned off to the district's brand new school in neighboring "Twin City," almost-as-Idyllic Corte Madera. And that one was already overcrowded, for which first-wave baby boomers such as we must shoulder the blame. As for me, good old L-CM was just four blocks from our home at 9 Arch Street, and I continued to walk the round-trip every school day, rain or shine, until I graduated 8th grade. View full size.

Magnolia, Massachusetts, circa 1910. "Autos at entrance to the Oceanside." At the intersection of Hesperus and Lexington avenues. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.

Nantasket Beach, Massachusetts, circa 1905. "General view from Atlantic House -- Paragon Park and resorts." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

Circa 1900. "Main Street -- Northfield, Massachusetts." The bucolic burg last glimpsed here. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

Circa 1900. "Main Street -- Northfield, Massachusetts." Home of the Home Bakery and Candy Kitchen. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

"McCrory fire, 11/21/29." Washington, D.C., firefighters at the McCrory five-and-dime on Seventh Street N.W., after a lunchtime boiler explosion in the store's basement -- a disaster whose final toll was six dead and dozens injured. 4x5 inch glass negative. View full size.

Honolulu, 1957. "On the beach at Waikiki." 35mm Kodachrome slide by Toni Frissell for the Sports Illustrated assignment "Hawaii -- The Sporting Look." View full size.

May 1964. 35mm Kodachrome by Toni Frissell for the Life magazine assignment "The Splendor of a Great Family: The Vanderbilts." View full size.

        On her country estate near Stamford, Connecticut, Gloria Vanderbilt enjoys a picnic with her husband, Wyatt Cooper, and two sons by her marriage to Leopold Stokowski -- Chris, 12, and Stan, 13. She came upon the picturesque waterfall with its secluded cottage one day and couldn't resist buying it. "It was like something out of a fairy tale," she exclaims.