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During the summer, you'd often find the Majors and Smolinski's at Sandy Pond, but in 1941 they vacationed at Fair Haven State Park, also on Lake Ontario. On this day there were visitors.

In the front are (left to right) Bobby Smolinski, his grandmother, Helen
Smolinski (better known simply as Nana), family friend Stella Rydelek
Pawlik, Helen Smolinski Major, Jack Major and Tommy Smolinski (lying in the sand), and Tommy's mother, Sally.

Standing to the left is a couple I cannot identify. In front of the man is Bimby Smolinski, then Eddie Smolinski, Al Pawlik, Alma Kaldowski (who mother was Wanda Smolinski Kaldowski. In front of Alma is a girl I cannot identify; she shows up again in the next photo.

Cousins Bobby Smolinski, Jack Major, Tommy and Bimby Smolinski line up for the camera, while a girl pours sand on Bobby's back. I have no idea whether the girl was a friend of relative or someone who happened to be at the beach that day.

Stanley "Buster" Major and mini-Buster (who somehow managed to avoid that nickname).

A wary-looking Bobby Smolinski with Jack Major and
Bobby's older brother, Bimby.

Jack Major looks at the miniature versions of the cottage and
garage of the place his family rented at Fair Haven.

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