Outdoor Life

Bass Pro Shops will take your vintage family photos,

if they show your ancestors living the outdoor life.  They then display them throughout their new stores. 

I sent them several recently, but just in case they are never seen again, I thought I would post them here. 

My Grandpa Richard, great Uncle Ray and great Uncle Clarence, around 1925. 
Matching pipes, boots and Model T's. 
They must have been proud of their new outboard motor, it's a first generation Johnson and had about 3 horsepower.
My great Aunt Irene labled them "Bums" for the way they're dressed.

Don't know the woman on the left but the other two are my great Aunt Irene and Uncle Clarence.  He was on leave from the Army in 1918, doing some target practice in preperation for going to France.

Camp can be boring.

No idea who this guy is.

Uncle Ray, Uncle Clarence and Aunt Irene, fishing from a home-made bridge.  I believe this may be on a canal that leads into Sandusky Bay near Crystal Rock, OH. 

On the left is my Grandpa Richard, don't know the other two.

Uncle Ray and Uncle Clarence.  The clothes are almost two much to take in at once.  Uncle Ray's knickers and socks are fit for the golf course.  As long as I knew him, he dressed this same way, although he was in his 80's by then.

Big fish, but no idea what kind it is.

Mike thinks this is a carp of some kind,  It's too ugly to be anything else.

Fish caught in Canada, 1927.

Another mystery family.  But lots of fish.

My Aunt Irene and a friend after bagging some varmit.  This would have been about 1914.

Aunt Irene and her mother, my great-grandmother Ella.  Our Ella is named after her.  This would have been about 1904.

Aunt Irene and Uncle Clarence. 
He passed away in 1980, she in 1995.

I believe these are the brothers of my great-grandma Ella Studer.  Her maiden name was Hankhammer and her parents came from Germany.  This picture is from around 1885-1890.

More chipmunks had to die to prepare Uncle Clarence for fighting the dreaded Hun.  1918.