A couple of photos of the Lloyd Wright family from around Christmas 1942. Both were taken inside the Wright residence at 406 N Geary.

I imagine “Noel Noel” across the top indicates that this photo was intended to be sent with (or as) a Christmas card in 1942. Dad (Lloyd Wright) is playing the piano and the children seem to be singing. Maybe they were singing, “Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Born is the King of Israel,” I don’t know.

Dad learned to play the piano from his mother, who taught him (and at least some of his siblings) on a pump organ in the sod house on the Alberta prairie. He was no piano virtuoso, but considering that was the extent of his piano training, he could find his way through a song pretty well.

Stools make great train tunnels, don’t they? This is Art with his train, in essentially the same spot where the “Noel” photo above was taken, but maybe a few months later.