1973- world trade center

World Trade Center in New York becomes the tallest building in the world. The original World Trade Center was designed by Minoru Yamasaki in the early 1960s. Groundbreaking for the World Trade Center took place on August 5, 1966. The North Tower was completed in December 1970 and the South Tower was finished in July 1971. The Tower was also know as the twin towers. But was attacked in September 11 2001. Both buildings collapsed within two hours, destroying nearby buildings and damaging others. At 8:46 a.m., American Airlines Flight 11 was crashed into the World Trade Center's North Tower, followed by United Airlines Flight 175 which hit the South Tower at 9:03 a.m. 2,973 victims and the 19 hijackers died as a result of these attacks.

family photos

The life in Kansas

A friend of my grand-pa and grand-ma was trying to learn to be a professional photographer so he got them to pose for him for practice. These were taken in a park in Wichita, Kansas about 1973. Grandma was having trouble making grandpa behave.

In June of 1978 grand-pa and grand-ma graduated from college. It took them 10 years going to night school to finish their degrees. Grand-ma got a degree in Sociology and Grand-pa got two degrees, one in Industrial Safety and one in Business. They graduated from Kansas Newman College in Wichita, Kansas. They used their GI Bill to attend school and Grand-ma completed her last year in a Bootstrap program that guaranteed her a commission in the Air Force when she completed her schooling.