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Welcome to the web site of Iris and Irvine (Pinky, Jr.) Vidacovich     

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Good news:  Thanks to the expertise of my grandson, Luke, we appear to be back in business.  I'' have to get use to some new wrinkles, so please be patient.

The links below will work, but it will be a while before I add to them.

HAPPY   NEW YEAR  !!!

SOME BASICS:  First of all, if any of you are unfamiliar with using web sites we'll send you to a page of instructions.  Put your cursor (that little blinking thing) over this word: instructions .. and click.

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May 26, 2011, Allie Graduates with honors.   See Allie

OCTOBER, 2010  Allie astride Quincy at Texas Playday.  See Allie

SEPTEMBER 19-27, 2010     Eastern Canada Vacation see Canada

AUGUST 21, 2010, JENNY AND DARIN FETED AT ENGAGEMENT PARTY. See Engage

JUNE 25, 2010, KATE BECOMES MRS. KEVIN BOLAN IN SAN FRANCISCO. See KATE

MAY 22, 2010, LUKE AND REBECCA VIDACOVICH WEDDING.  see Luke

JANUARY 31, 2010, BRANDON GETS A "GROOM SHOWER."  See Brandon.

DECEMBER 31, 2009  A retro New Year's Eve for Iris and Pinky and friends .. see New Years Eve

DECEMBER 27, 2009, Allie turns 13  see Allie

DECEMBER 11, 2009 Becky Graduates Magna Cum Laude ..   see Becky

SEPTEMBER  2009, the trip to FRANCE AND BAVARIA.  See Tour

CRAPOLA 2009, Version 16.  See Crawfish

MARDI GRAS  -  Added in March, 2009, some random pictures from Mardi Gras over the years.  See Mardi Gras

NEMESIS, 2009 - In Chalmette.  Also added in March. Doeschers, Noggeraths, Robins on parade.  See Nemesis

CRAPOLA 2008  -  15th anniversary, back in Chalmette.  See CRAWFISH

Austin and Curtis Graduate From St. Paul's School May 18, 2008.  See St. Paul's.

Chelsea graduates from Archbishop Hannan High, May 16, 2008.  See Chelsea

Christmas in Chalmette, December 2007.  See Chalmette

The Downholders Meet in New Orleans November 11, 2007.  See Downwhold

Chelsea's Rings Mass, August 22, 2007.  See RING

The latest find:  A pre-Crapola crawfish party in 1993.  See CRAWFISH

A new addition:  Pictures of Joel and Pinky's 1954 wedding and some other pictures of that part of the family.  See Joel

June 10, 2007, a Day at the Races in Dallas.  See Allie

June 9, 2007 Kittens arrive in Irving.  See Allie

May 26, 2007 Michelle performs with her ballet class in Slidell.  See Michelle.

May 2007, Chad Doescher Graduates with honors from Archbishop Hannan High School.  See CHAD

Crapola moved to the West Bank at Casa Patron again for the 2007 version.  See CRAWFISH.

December 2006 Brandon Noggerath graduates from LSU with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Construction Management.  See BRANDON.

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Allie celebrates her 10th Birthday!  See Allie

Take a look at a small miracle.  See Amazing Grace!

In June Katrina forced CRAPOLA to move to the West Bank.  To the home of Dooty and Pam Patron.  See CRAPOLA.

In May, Kate graduates from the University of San Francisco.  See Kate.

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Pictures of the houses where Irvine and Richard were born and raised.  See HOUSES.

Repeated by request:  I've re-posted the pictures from the Washington DC Tribute to Lucien Carr.  It's temporary.  See Lucien

July 22, 2005  Irvine spent his birthday as a guest of Chris and Luke at Busch Stadium in
St. Louis.  See Baseball.

June 18, 2005 a cruise on the Mississippi.  See cruise

Don and Lee Schellhaas celebrate 50 years of marriage.  See  Schellhaas

See the latest assault on the mudbugs!  Crapola  2005.

A new addition:  Allie's haircut for charity.  See Allie.

Also some new pictures of Iris as a young girl.  See Iris

High School Graduations in Covington, Chalmette and Texas.  The graduates were Evan Noggerath, Melanie Doescher and Becky Nigro.

Archbishop Hannan High School in Meraux honored high scholastic achievement at a banquet in Chalmette April 18.  Among those honored were Chad Doescher and Kristina Farragut.

Allie's First Holy Communion, April 3 in Irving, TX.  See Communion.

Chelsea and a group of classmates earn kudos with costume from the Wizard of OZ.  See Earl.

A new addition: a picture of Iris and Earl's wedding in 1952.  See Iris & Earl

Christmas Eve at the Doescher Manor.  See Doescher

Eric, Clara, Sean and Isabel visit Chalmette for Christmas..   See Eric

And the next week, Chris, Donna and family (recently extended) came.  See Chris

And to start the New Year, Anne and Allie were here.  See Anne

A couple of pictures of Chris and Vicki Ewald's visit with Claire in January. See Ewald

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11/5/04 Dinner with Edie Doescher on her birthday .. see Edie

10/3/04  Beverly and Richard celebrate 25 (while Iris and yours truly celebrated nine). See Richard.

8/1/04  ... Anne and Allie visit City Park in New Orleans.  See Allie

Later that month, Iris and I met with Eric, Clara, Sean and Isabel at Kemah, a resort area south of Houston on Galveston Bay.  See Kemah

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7/11/04 ... We had dinner with Elmer Feldheim, a nonagenarian who sang with Pinky, Sr.'s band before Dawnbusters.  Take a look at:  Elmer.

7/4/04 ... Fourth of July 2004  in Hattiesburg  ... click on FOURTH

6/25/04 ... a gasoline truck runs into a train in Chalmette. See FIRE.

6/5/04 ... Courtney and Mike get Married! at Rolla, MO.  See Wedding

5/26/04 ... Austin Noggerath and Curtis Doescher graduate from eighth grade at St. Paul's in Covington.  See St. Paul's.

Also in May, Chelsea Doescher graduates with honors from the eighth grade at Chalmette Christian Academy.  See Chelsea.

Still in May, Honors at Hannan in April ... Kristina Farragut and Chad Doescher win awards.                  

4/30/04 ... Courtney graduates from Oklahoma Christian.  See Courtney.

4/25/04 ... Melanie shines in the Junior Miss St. Bernard Pageant (April 25). See Junior Miss

 December, 2003 Allie on Ice and Building A Dog .  See Allie.

 Chris and Donna on a visit to New Orleans.  See CHRIS

  See a new picture from Eric of Cowboy Sean

 8/01/03 ... You're invited ...  to take a look at a few pictures from the happy day. See Eric Doescher's Wedding.

Kate and Becky in formals and Becky performing. Click Nigro. 

Allie on her trusted steed.  See Allie.  And a cute shot of Isabel and Sean.  See Eric's page.

It's a big family!  So we've tried to make the web site as navigable as possible.  We welcome your suggestions.

Below we've listed the main branches of the families and the families of the families. Click on whichever ones you're interested in.  It should be pretty self-explanatory.

We'll start with "The latest additions" to highlight whatever is brand new on the site.  These will hang around until they get a bit old and then they'll be transferred to the appropriate family page.

From time to time we may eliminate some images to keep within the space guidelines imposed by our host (Tripod) but we'll save them elsewhere.  If you want to see one of them just ask via e-mail and we'll ship it to you. The e-mail address is listed below.

(Note: A few pages are "under construction" and no hyperlink is available.  These will be available soon, we hope)

Some other additions:

2003 saw Jenny Robin graduate from LSU School of Nursing, Keith Robin from LSU College of Art and Design, Luke Vidacovich from East Texas Christian Academy high school and Chad Doescher from Chalmette Christian Academy grade school.  Pictures are on the new Graduation page.

And please note the addition of a link, on the Dawnbusters page, to a good history of WWL Radio.

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A group of pictures from Elmer Feldheim, who sang with Pinky's band in 1931 and 1932 on WWL Radio BEFORE the Dawnbusters days.  Elmer is related to the Vidacovich family by marriage and furnished us with some good pictures on another side of the family.  And it creates a new page called Vidacovich Tree.  Lots more on this later.

Elmer also came up with a picture of Pinky and Nina Picone, who was with him before and during the Dawnbusters days.  See Dawnbusters.

Also a good picture of Grandpa Paul with Tony, Sr and Tony, Jr., and one of uncle Frank Vidacovich.  See Vidacovich.

Pictures from Richard which show Paul Vidacovich at his birthday party, and we've added his birth and death dates. And there is Pinky senior in his late teens on a date at Little Woods, and Tony and Catherine Vidacovich at Tony's 80th birthday party. See Vidacovich (Irvine and Richard's side of the family).

A link to Brigid's Web page, which contains a family tree:   http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/n/i/g/Brigid-Nigro/index.html#edit

Once you get there click on InterneTree and you'll get the tree, under which there are instructions for using it.  If anyone can fill in the missing blanks, please do so.

If you just want to look at family pictures, I have another area  for that: FAMILIES

If you're interested in the past, take a look at ANCESTRY

Now to the families:

Acquistapace         Doescher            Thornton         Vidacovich                     Pinky, Jr. & Iris          
   Parents                 Parents                Parents             Parents                       Travel
   Rodney                 Iris                       Asbury             Pinky, Sr.                    Pinky & Joel
   Steve                    Earl, Jr.               Bayard             Dawnbusters
   Lois                      Earl III (Fritz)              
                                Mark                   Ewald                Joel  Brigid   Chris
                                Eric D                  Moser              Eric V   Anne
                                Carl                                                Richard 
                                Judy                                               Heraldry 
                                Joan                                         

The latest offspring picture is a group shot of the Vidacovich/Nigro grandchildren.  See family today.

Send your questions and comments to:  pinkynola@aol.com

This page was last updated on 12/29/11.