Vanderlaan Family Photographs from Our Book - "Ancestors Memories and Simple Gifts" - The History of the Vanderlaan Family - and Many Many More Pictures that People Sent Me.

All these Pictures are curved
because I Just Pointed the Camera
at the Book and the Pages are Curved...




Gregory and Martin Vanderlaan


Jill Robin Greg Martin and Prince the Dog Vanderlaan






Justin and Marguerite Vanderlaan Dressed Up For a Ball


Martin and Gregory Vanderlaan
Holding Swimming Medals
at the Oka Road Swim and Racquet Club
in Los Gatos...


Thanksgiving 1951


Marcus Vanderlaan US Army


Vanessa Justin and Patti Vanderlaan

12/25/2021: We had a Family Gathering on ZOOM... Wonderful fun... Totally Safe from COVID-19... Finding out what's popular with children these days... and New Jobs for the 20 somethings... and Old folks re-telling stories... Excellent... These people are precious to me... I was sitting at the dining room table with my housemates and the Care giver in the background serving lunch... and all of the residents waved and said "Hi" to my family... That gave my family a True Idea of My Lifestyle... at an Old Folks home with SIX Residents and One Care giver on duty 24 hours a day..
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Thanksgiving with my Family as a Child. In Los Gatos and Sacramento. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/11/thanksgiving-with-my-family-as-child-in.html




Vanderlaan Family at Thanksgiving:Left to Right Standing: Robin's Husband, Robin's Son, My Brother Martin, My Dad Justin. Seated: Cousin Robin, Patti's Mom Bonita, Patti-Martin's Wife, Child, Uncle Marc, Aunt Peg and Mom-Marguerite


Gregory, Vanessa, Nicole and Justin Vanderlaan


Vanderlaan Family Collage for Dad's
90th Birthday Coffee Cup.
Gregory, Marguerite, Justin, Vanessa, Nicole, Martin, Patty, Victoria, Brodie and Patty's Mom, Bonita.

Hi all,
Vanessa and Patti have been working on a hoop skirt, petticoat and supporting hoops for "appropriate attire" for the Dickens Faire at the Cow Palace yesterday. It all came together as you can see in the dressing photos.
Marty


Vanessa and Patti Post Vanderlaan


Vanessa Vanderlaan at the Dickens Faire at the Cow Palace in San Francisco Modeling a Home Made Hoop Skirt made by Vanessa and Patti Post Vanderlaan

Vanderlaan Family Photographs: Martin, Patti, Nicole, Vanessa, Bonita, Justin, Gregory, Victoria, Beth, Broady, Cadence, Reese, Gary Lea and My Daves Avenue Elementary Class Photo
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/02/vanderlaan-family-photographs-martin.html


Christmas 1961 Left to right: Martin Vanderlaan, Cousin Patty, Gregory Vanderlaan, Cousin Gary Lea - We Had Family Parties in the Willow Glen district of San Jose. Mom's Family had a Farm there... growing Prunes... Grandma Made Prunes Stuffed With Divinity Fudge (100% Sugar) - Uncle Forrest Made Apricot Liquor by Taking a Mason Jar Filled with pitted Fresh apricots, vodka and rock candy... set it on the shelf for a year to Mellow... They used to give the children a single apricot to eat and That's My First Drink of Alcohol...
FUN! Not So Much Fun Years Later...


Victoria, Gregory
In Cutten, California
Near Eureka...



Picture of Victoria's Sister Beth, Our Home in the Redwood Forest and a Tower of Jewels Plant. 

My Truck and The Magic Bus Kinetic Sculpture


Vanessa
Bay to Breakers Race...


Martin


Daves Ave Elementary School 1965 Mrs Fuller's Class


Nicole


Dog, Patti, Bonita, Vanessa

and Then I Realized I Did Not Have Enough Photographs of Nicole, Brodie, Reese, Cadence or Vanessa... So I Found All of These Pictures on Facebook...







































My Family from My Mom's Side...
In a Crab Restaurant near Baltimore.
My Cousin Dian, her sons Ken and John and
My Brother Martin (on the left)

Writings of Justin Duff Vanderlaan - My Father - How the Airplane got to Oak Meadow Park Los Gatos California...

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/01/writings-of-justin-duff-vanderlaan-my.html

I Took My Parents to the Iran-Contra Hearings at the US Capital. General Secord Testifying. Exciting! I was really glad to take Mom and Dad to a place that they had fun at.
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/06/taking-my-parents-to-iran-contra.html

Dad's 90th Birthday Party in Los Gatos, California - Justin Duff Vanderlaan Family Photographs

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/10/dads-90th-birthday-party-in-los-gatos.html

Thanksgiving with my Family as a Child. In Los Gatos and Sacramento.

We went to Sacramento on Thanksgiving to Uncle Marc and Aunt Peg's home. They had two daughters, Robin and Jill. Uncle Marc was a criminal defense attorney in Sacramento and Aunt Peg was a Social Worker. Jill became a lawyer and moved to Seattle and Robin went to work at Uncle Marc's Law office. One time a client of Aunt Peg's did a Bank Robbery and was holding hostages. The police called her and said that the only person he felt comfortable talking to was his social worker... She negotiate the release of the hostages. 

We alternated Locations Every Year. One Year we would all go out to dinner in Los Gatos at a Fancy Restaurant (Villa Felice Or La Hacienda) and the Other Year we had a home cooked meal in Sacramento. After Dinner we always took a "Forced March" down the Street to Land Park... I Never Liked That but... It WAS FORCED so I Participated. I Also Remember Debating with Uncle Marc About Important Subjects. He always won  the Debates. I Guess since he TALKED FOR A LIVING he Had Become Skilled at That. I Also believe he simply took the opposite viewpoint just to exercise my brain... Get me Thinking... No Matter What the Subject was he took the Opposite... 

Once I Asked Uncle Marc about Defending Guilty People. He Said: "We Don't Know if They are Guilty. That's for Judges and Jurors to Decide. AND... Every person deserves a Defense Attorney... Not Only a Defense Attorney but a MAD DOG Defense Attorney that will Fight for Him... 

As a child my family climbed the Cinder Cone at Mount Lassen. It's a pile of volcanic ash. It was difficult to climb as we slid down while walking up. "Two steps forward one step back." The whole family went. Uncle Marc and Aunt Peg, Cousins Robin and Jill.

We camped at the Lake and went to a campfire talk by Park Rangers. They told the story of the Indians of Lassen and the History of the Volcano exploding. Lava flowed as far away as Chico. The volcano once was a giant mountain in prehistoric times... They showed illustrations of how big it was in comparison to the seemingly tiny mountain that remains...

The highlight of any trip to Lassen was the Bubbling Mudpots of Bumpass Hell. It's a valley of hot springs that is bright orange and yellow. Extremely hot sulfur vents out of the volcano making lakes of hot bubbling mud. It was named for an early explorer, Kendall Bumpass, who fell into a mudpot and died from the heat. There are sulfur springs right on the road but the best ones are an easy one and a half mile hike away from the parking lot. The rangers built wooden boardwalks for tourists to go out over the mudpots safely.

Read more of My Autobiography at:

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html

Vanderlaan Family at Thanksgiving:

Left to Right Standing: Robin's Husband, Robin's Son, My Brother Martin, My Dad Justin.

Seated: Cousin Robin, Patti's Mom Bonita, Patti-Martin's Wife, Child, Uncle Marcus, Aunt Peg and Mom-Marguerite

Marcus Vanderlaan - My Uncle

Great Book: "Jack and Jill" by James Patterson. A murder mystery contrasting the Assassination of the President and Murder of Black Children.

Detective Alex Cross has two serial killers loose in Washington DC. One is killing Famous Politicians and the other is killing poor black children. The interesting quality of this book is how the Police treat these two groups differently. A huge force of police try to prevent the murder of the President while the poor black children are almost completely ignored...

James Patterson writes about subjects that are relevant to today's news headlines... Black Lives Matter protests... Assassination of the President... He can write about these subjects but if I type a blog post... It's possible for me to be included in a List of Crazies to be watched by the FBI, NSA and CIA... I really enjoyed this book as it allows me to fantasize about a subject that is,,, shall we say... Verboten! (Forbidden!)

http://www.jamespatterson.com/books/jack-and-jill

https://www.amazon.com/Jack-Jill-Cross-James-Patterson/dp/0446604801