mom & dad, pre-me: 1916-'65
Mom (Dorka; Czechoslovakian for Dorothy) is the youngest kid in this photo, sitting on her mother Mary's lap. The entire Zeman family is here, probably on the stoop of their austere Havre, Montana home. (Original photo B&W, restored and colorized in Photoshop) - 1917
Mom showing off her hand-made dress on the lawn beside her family's Havre home (Original photo B&W, restored and colorized in Photoshop. Credit unknown, from Ancestry.com) - c.1921
Dad's family: Sister Roxane (Roxy), Dad, mother Rivka, and sister Shiela (Original photo B&W, restored and colorized in Photoshop) - 1935
PFC Robert Bruce Lisker, USMC. He's 17 here. The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor about a year prior. By the following year, he'll be wading ashore with a rifle held dry over his head in the U.S. Marines' second day landing upon Tarawa Atoll, with his "K" Co. comrades, Third Battalion, 8th Marines, 2d Mar Div. – 1943 enlistment photo
A signed photo of Mom (29) and Dad (19) shot in Tijuana, Mexico moments after their wedding, as a way to announce their nuptials to one and all. (Original photo B&W, restored and colorized in Photoshop. Credit unknown, from Ancestry.com) - Jan 1, 1946
Mom looking super glamorous, laughing at a magazine in a booth in one of the many restaurants she and Dad frequented in the day - c.1955
The house my folks built in the early 1950s. Jadestone Drive, Sherman Oaks - c.1957
Mom and friends at the Jadestone house - late 1950s
Dad at Jadestone - late 1950s
At the Jadestone Drive house - late 1950s
Mom at Jadestone Drive - late 1950s
Dad at the Jadestone house - late 1950s
Mom and her crew at Technicolor, Hollywood. She was a well-respected film negative cutter there. She and Dad met after he'd accidentally snapped a reel on the rewind bench, and took it to her to be repaired - 1960s
Mom cutting into her 46th birthday cake, on vacation in Hawaii - 1962
Mom and Dad on her 46th birthday, in Hawaii - 1962
Mom and Dad on vacation in Hawaii - 1962
Mom and Dad on vacation in Hawaii - 1962