Chez Vidac Presents ...
The Vidacovich
Family Roots ... Irvine and Richard's side of the family.
Here are some pictures from the past. More are welcome if you have them. Click on
thumbnail for large view.
John (or Johan, Jean,
Charlotte Brenny
Vidacovich Paul
Vidacovich (taken Josephine
Buras Vidacovich
Giovanni, depending
on) who came
here from France circa 1885
by the photo-
the ethnicity of the census (from a
suburb of Paris,
grapher
Daliet, whose
takers of 1850, 1860 and
according to
family legend). studio was on
Frenchman
1870) Vidacovich who
Street. Paul was born Aug.
4,
emigrated to America from 1859 in Sunrise, La. He died
Yugoslavia (then Austria)
in New Orleans Feb. 16, 1946.
around the 1840's.
The photos of John and Charlotte were taken around the
the time of the Civil War
.
Paul Vidacovich & Son:
Paul Vidacovich at This is Tony Vidacovich's Here are
Tony, Jr.,
This photo, courtesy
his birthday party 80th
birthday party, with
Grandpa Paul and Tony, Sr.
of P. J. Vidacovich.
in the mid-1940s.
wife Catherine on the left
The man on the left
and Richard in the middle.
is Paul Francois Vidacovich.
To his left is P. J.'s father,
Paul Joseph Vidacovich.
We think the next man
is Paul Francois's brother.
The other man is unidentified.
Here's Pinky at Little This is a shot of Pinky, Sr. Beverly and Richard
Uncle Frank Vidacovich
Woods with a couple on the golf course at City in a
recent photo
in Masonic regalia
of lady friends. He
Park. If I had to guess I'd
looks to be a teenager
say it was taken in the early
at the time. The Girl
or middle 1930s.
on the left is identified
as "Frankie Olivier."
This photo, courtesy of
These are the "Buras Sisters"
Irvine Vidacovich, Sr., Here's the formidable
P. J. Vidacovich, shows
(picture thanks to PJ) taken a few
Many Years Ago.
Buras Baseball Team
the house in Sunrise, LA, years ago. The id on the back with Paul Vidacovich
near Buras, where the of the pictures goes as follows: (Sr.) kneeling on the
family lived before moving Back Row: Adrianna Lauderbough,
right and above him to
to New Orleans. The photo Josephine
Vidacovich (Grandmother), his left is his brother,
apparently was taken about Clara Hingle
(apparently she was taking
Jean . Circa 1920. Is that
1900. the picture). Abner Doubleday in the
Front Row: Lulu Cognevich, Della Shirtsleeves?? See picture
St. Philip, Harriet (Hattie) St. Philip.
below for a look at John in
later years.
John (Jean) Vidacovich,
Here's another picture
This is a picture Richard
This is an enlargement
Paul's brother, is seated.
of five of the Buras sisters; took at Jean
Vidacovich's of a portion of the picture.
Behind him, from left, is
the same five as above.
camp on Bayou La Chute
Ernest, Richard and John,
Apparently, Clara was the (off Bay Bastien near Empire).
Jr. Both John Sr., and Jr.
family photographer.
Jean (Nicole's son and Jean B.'s
and Ernest
are deceased. Grandson, is on the left. To his
The picture
was taken in
left is his grandson, "Charlou"
Port Sulphu
circa 1970. Inabnet, Pinky, Sr., and "Jeaneau
(John, Jr.). The camp was built in
1915 by Jean and destroyed in a
hurricane in the 1990's.
Enter David Casanova, whose grandfather was Joseph Vidacovich and who
lives today in Joseph's house in
St. Bernard parish. The following pictures of the camp and of Joseph and
Nick are from him.
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Here's a really old Here are
three pictures taken at the camp, about the same time as
Nick Vidacovich at
shot of the camp at the photo at left, showing Joseph
Vidacovich and a friend on what the camp.
Bayou La Chute appears to be a
successful hunting trip.
From left, Bill Vidacovich
and his wife, Catherine
Vidacovich Labatut and
O. J. Labatut at Richard's
Navy retirement ceremony
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