Eric found a group of slides that were taken twenty five years ago at Grandma Bell’s 82nd birthday dinner in April 1980. Here are some details that he remembered from that family get-together:

It was held at an Italian restaurant on North Avenue just West of Mannheim Road in either Stone Park or Northlake. The name of the restaurant was Tirtillo’s (spelling?) and they used to be just a pizza restaurant in another location where we used to get our pizza. But after they moved to this new location they had suddenly transformed into a high priced, fancy Italian restaurant. However, their food was very good.

At this same time Tina McKillip had come to Chicago from California to visit with a boyfriend who was in the Navy and was stationed at Great Lakes Naval Center. They were both staying at our house and they attended this family gathering for Grandma Bell’s birthday. The Bullard family was well represented and so were the Yaccino and the Franke families. There were evidently no Danielsons present.

An amusing detail that I recall was the fact that the younger generation, being definitely in a party mood, took full advantage of the fact that their parents were sponsoring this outing and they racked up a bar bill that could choke a horse. Although we loved the little devils perhaps it wasn’t so amusing after all!

Thanks, Eric, so much, for sending this wonderful collection!