Judging from the processing ID stamps and fountain pen ink color of Roberta's annotation on the reverse, this picture of niece Kathleen was probably taken at the Ravenna Park picnic shown at the top of Mary's page.

Yessssss....I'm so cute....

A worried looking John wonders if the cyclone fence behind them is enough to keep them from falling to the briny depths below.
Probably taken in the late 50's or early 1960 on the Oregon Coast as the Gordon family saw "the U.S.A. in their (Seafair, convertible) Chevrolet."
Looks like dad's shadow.

Hey this is like King of the Mountain.....

He went Thataway.....
And who got cropped????

Yup, that's Mary, Ann, and number one son, John.
We're on the beach somewhere. The picture was developed in Sept 1959.

Also from Summer of 1959, we've got the Gordon clan waving. Well we're all waving but John. And he looks like he's looking at the first coming of Jaws!

Here's Mom lighting a candle. Mary looks pretty interested. John's standing back.
(picture developed in August 1960, but hand dated as "1959")

Ok... Roberta Gordon's backyard with NO vegetation?
Three beautiful kids

 

Voices.. Voices... I hear voices

Here we are standing by Mom's front planter in view of the "Herrickson's" House. Kathleen, John, Mary (in back) and little Ann. The tall lady was the kindergarten teacher.

Here we are all admiring the Catholic NW Progress.
Jack and Roberta on the couch,
John Ann Mary, and little Joseph on the floor.

Oops, only thing showing of Joseph is his head. That's ok though, as he grew taller.
A trip to the Land that Time Forgot.  The City by the Bay. 
The adopted hometown of Portland Jack Gordon.

Probably the greatest Jack Gordon and kids picture extant.
It's from 1964 and we're at the Seattle Center, it's Ann, John, Mary, Dad, and Joseph.
(Elvis had nothing on us!)

 

photo by the seattle times

And here we are in 1969 at Seattle University. Jack was receiving an award from the University.
We are Ann, Mom, Dad (in back, of course), Joseph, John and Mary.
Related story and more information.

 

I don't know what happened to the color of this picture. It's from the 70's and was our official family picture for
Assumption Parish in Seattle. It's a couple of years later than the Seattle University picture above,
 and Joseph has grown about  a foot.
Dad, Ann, John (in back), Joseph, Mary (in back) and Mom.

We jump a bit here to January of 1989 and the Hospitality Industry Legislative Gala where almost
the whole Gordon clan showed up.
(left to right {as usual}) are Beverly and John Gordon and Roberta Gordon, then Joseph Gordon,
Gary (far back) and Mary Pederson (far front), Jack in back and then Lori Weeks.
(Daughter Ann and husband Gary Thomas were still living in Sacramento and unfortunately missed the shindig.)

 

Photo by John E. Walker

 

 

and we end with
Son and Father.... Any question?