It is 100 years since Madge Stevens was born - Pt 13
26 May 1950, 2nd grandchild, Roselie Marie (Mary) Bamber (Audrey & Ian’s 2nd)
10 Jul 1950, son Ian marries Norma Swickis
Songs popular in 1950; Music! Music! Music! The Third Man Theme, If I Knew You Were Comin’ I’d’ve Baked A Cake, Mona Lisa, Tennessee Waltz and Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer. Events; - World War Two rationing is lifted in New Zealand and the The British Empire Games are held in Auckland. U.S. Air Force loses a Convair B-36 bomber that carried an Mk-4 atomic bomb off the west coast of Canada in February and later, in November, U.S. Air Force B-50 Superfortress bomber, experiencing an in-flight emergency, jettisons and detonates a Mark 4 nuclear bomb over Quebec, Canada (the device lacked its plutonium core).
Madge and Frank Stevens with his Betty & Madge's David on steps. Note on back; 1951 Oct 7 Thanksgiving weekend.
29 Mar 1952, 3rd grandchild, Roberta Susan Bamber (Robbie) (Audrey & Ian’s 3rd) 05 Jul 1952, 4th grandchild, Wendy Lynn Patterson (Ian & Norma’s first)
1952; TV debuts in Canada as the CBC in Montreal, Quebec airs. New Zealand's population exceeds two million, New Zealand athlete Yvette Williams wins a gold medal and sets a world record for the long jump at Helsinki Olympiad.
at Ian and Norma's with Wendy looking at camera (Norma's Dad? behind Ian)
19 Oct 1954, 5th grandchild, Ian Taylor Bamber (Audrey & Ian’s 4th) 29 Nov 1954, 6th grandchild, Terry Ian Patterson (Ian & Norma’s 2nd)
1954 Songs; Little Things Mean A Lot, Oh! My Pa-Pa, Wanted, Sh-Boom and Mr. Sandman. Events; DC6B's replace Solent flying boats on TEAL routes. TEAL becomes equally owned by Australia and New Zealand and The New Zealand team had it's most successful Games at the British Empire Games in Vancouver, winning seven gold, seven silver and five bronze medals. The tally included 3 gold medals for Yvette Williams in shot put, long jump and discus.
Ian and Norma with Chuck and Marion McManus … Wendy is sitting beside Marion. Ian and Norma (holding Cindy) are between Chuck and Grama with Terry in front. That door opened into Grama's porch where she kept and used her treadle sewing machine.
11 Feb 1956, 7th grandchild, Cindy Leanne (Ian & Norma’s 3rd)
05 Jan 1956, Madge’s father Fred Humphrey dies in Burnaby, Vancouver
1956 Songs; Memories Are Made Of This, Rock And Roll Waltz, The Wayward Wind, Singing The Blues – and the year of Elvis; Heartbreak Hotel, Don’t Be Cruel. Events; American TV maker Zenith, introduces the first remote control with its Space Command Device.
10 Jul 1950, son Ian marries Norma Swickis
Songs popular in 1950; Music! Music! Music! The Third Man Theme, If I Knew You Were Comin’ I’d’ve Baked A Cake, Mona Lisa, Tennessee Waltz and Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer. Events; - World War Two rationing is lifted in New Zealand and the The British Empire Games are held in Auckland. U.S. Air Force loses a Convair B-36 bomber that carried an Mk-4 atomic bomb off the west coast of Canada in February and later, in November, U.S. Air Force B-50 Superfortress bomber, experiencing an in-flight emergency, jettisons and detonates a Mark 4 nuclear bomb over Quebec, Canada (the device lacked its plutonium core).
Madge and Frank Stevens with his Betty & Madge's David on steps. Note on back; 1951 Oct 7 Thanksgiving weekend.
29 Mar 1952, 3rd grandchild, Roberta Susan Bamber (Robbie) (Audrey & Ian’s 3rd) 05 Jul 1952, 4th grandchild, Wendy Lynn Patterson (Ian & Norma’s first)
1952; TV debuts in Canada as the CBC in Montreal, Quebec airs. New Zealand's population exceeds two million, New Zealand athlete Yvette Williams wins a gold medal and sets a world record for the long jump at Helsinki Olympiad.
at Ian and Norma's with Wendy looking at camera (Norma's Dad? behind Ian)
19 Oct 1954, 5th grandchild, Ian Taylor Bamber (Audrey & Ian’s 4th) 29 Nov 1954, 6th grandchild, Terry Ian Patterson (Ian & Norma’s 2nd)
1954 Songs; Little Things Mean A Lot, Oh! My Pa-Pa, Wanted, Sh-Boom and Mr. Sandman. Events; DC6B's replace Solent flying boats on TEAL routes. TEAL becomes equally owned by Australia and New Zealand and The New Zealand team had it's most successful Games at the British Empire Games in Vancouver, winning seven gold, seven silver and five bronze medals. The tally included 3 gold medals for Yvette Williams in shot put, long jump and discus.
Ian and Norma with Chuck and Marion McManus … Wendy is sitting beside Marion. Ian and Norma (holding Cindy) are between Chuck and Grama with Terry in front. That door opened into Grama's porch where she kept and used her treadle sewing machine. 11 Feb 1956, 7th grandchild, Cindy Leanne (Ian & Norma’s 3rd)
05 Jan 1956, Madge’s father Fred Humphrey dies in Burnaby, Vancouver
1956 Songs; Memories Are Made Of This, Rock And Roll Waltz, The Wayward Wind, Singing The Blues – and the year of Elvis; Heartbreak Hotel, Don’t Be Cruel. Events; American TV maker Zenith, introduces the first remote control with its Space Command Device.
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