It's easier for anyone to share their life stories by writing a book. I didn't want to do that, but I wanted to do something with the photo albums, audio tapes, and movies my parents and grandparents left.
1942 Raymond 3 years Old
This little guy didn't know what was waiting for him to do in just eighty short years.
Finally, the day arrived to start planning our future move away from the Salt Lake City area. This time I had promised to finish duplicating every saved picture and document my wife and I had in our possession. We were no more moving an extra trailer load of memory boxes.
With each of our moves over the past twenty-five years, we accumulated pictures and those from our parents and their stored collections after they all departed for Heaven.
How many generations of memories do you have in your collection?
A word of encouragement, don't wait eighty or more years. Consider hiring a Photo Manager to get the job done. You don't have to do it alone.
Protect your memories now from fire, floods, and natural disasters. Just remember how many sad stories you have recently heard on the news of families losing everything in a few moments.
If I have stirred you up and got you thinking about your priceless collection of memories, let me take you on a little journey by telling you my story. Ok?
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On my Family Tree, you can learn all about my mom, dad, brother, and entire family, so I don't need to go into much detail here.
The slide show at the top left will give you a 7-picture snapshot of my life (if you are reading my story on your smartphone, my seven slides are at the very top); the slides only give you a quick preview of what is to come. Below that is my 8mm movies. You can skip them for now.
Using today's technology to tell my story has given me access to every current method. No longer tied to the limits of publishing a printed book, I can use all media for my tools. On this page alone, you have access to my written words, my pictures, a slide show, old movies, and even music favorites from my growing-up years, Plus the ability to click on Hyperlinks to open up additional items like seeing the house where I grew up on Google Maps.
The tools we now have to help tell our stories are fantastic, and the memories we save today can also be preserved FOREVER.
The best part of using Internet tools is adding more stories and details whenever we think of something new. You can't do that with a printed book.
Now back to my story.
In this
starting chapter I would like to go back and see just how much I can remember
from my early,early memories.
Let me take you back to the first house I
remember living in. At 1242 Pinchot Place in
1947
To visit my old neighborhood, Click Google Maps will take you to the front door. The wall you see in front was not there in 1947, before we moved to Tucson, AZ.
Google Maps provide a perfect way to travel back in time to visit the towns, cities, and neighborhoods we still remember. You will likely find your old house just where you left it.
Each of the pictures you see below will open up the memories I had during that time. Click on the links below the photos, and they will lead you to more of my story. Please understand that this page will continually grow and never be finished as long as we are making fun memories to share.
1951 - 1953 Junior High School year
1954 -1957 High School Memories
1958 -1961 Before University of AZ
1961-1964 Army Years in
1965-1972 1st Marriage and more
1973 -1976 Exhibit Trade Show Director
1977-1982 Mt. Lemmon,
Continue my work on Blast Masking
1985 Ray's Invention hits the
Tucson News Paper
1988 - 1995 Rayzist expansion to California
2105 Industrial Court Vista,CA
New Rental Building for Honor Life Memorials
1995 Randy Willis makes me an offer
Nov 1995
Ray sells his controlling interest in
Rayzist Photomask,Inc
1998
Computersaints
1st email contact with Kathryn
1998
Kathryn S. Wells
Our Heavenly Father
used the Christian Connection
on the Internet for our first Introduction
1st in person
meeting with Kassie at the
Grove Park Inn
Ashville North Carolina Oct 22, 1998
Family & Friends
Anderson SC Oct 24,1998
Kassie meets my family
Nov 14, 1998
In Las Vegas for our first
Zukowski Family Reunion
Proposed to Kassie
Nov 15, 1998
She said . . .
Sold my house in
1857 Timber Trail Vista, CA
Moved to Anderson, SC
January 23, 1999
Wedding to Kassie in Anderson SC
Honeymoon Cruise
Our 1999 New Home on Wheels
and
our 5000 mile USA Adventure
Y2K Hideout in Ellijay, Georgia
2000 - 2013
Panacea & the Panhandle of Florida
Finding Christian International
in Santa Rosa Beach, FL
Join the Hamon's Ministry and
setup their first video department
Our 2000-2002 RV Residence
in Santa Rosa Beach FL
Our 2003 rental home in
Santa Rosa Beach
2004 Purchased our Home
425 Golf Club Drive
Santa Rosa Beach
Started
Coast to Coast Video
Multi-Camera coverage of over
240 Beach, Church & area Weddings
Realestate House Tours
30A Events
Airport Hanger Fire Protection Equipment
Memory Story Telling
Live on the Internet Events
Walton County Council Meetings
Moving to Sandy, Utah
Three growing Grandsons and their adventures
2014 - 2017
Rosegate Apartments Sandy, Utah
Mom's Ashes
Grandsons activities
Events at Rosegate
Shooting Interviews for Dave Bartosiewicz
2017 - 2021
Rental home closer to our grandchildren
4783 Bron Breck St Holladay Utah
Family Events and activities
2018
2019
2020
2021
Selling everything and leaving Utah.
Duplicating Every Picture & Document
to elimate moving another trailer load of boxes
Leaving Utah and heading South & East
Apache Junction, AZ
Tucson and Mt Lemmon
Ranch in Texas
Sarah's Graduation in Ellijay GA
Condo in Naples, Florida
Condo in Ft Myers
Condo in Sarasota FL
Visit with Grandkids in Perry FL
Cabin in Ellijay, GA
Cabin in Blueridge, GA
Cabin in Coosawattee Resort
2 Yr Rental House
920 Santa Anita Dr. Woodstock, GA
Until October 15, 2025 or longer.