Wick Family 8mm Movie Films
These films of the Melvin and Faith Wick family
where taken over a 25 year period,
dating from April 1957 to Dec 1973.
This collection of 8mm films is on 10 reels.
Reels #1 through #9 are 400 feet long and Reel #10 is 50 feet.
All together, this is 3650 feet of film represent about 5 hours of viewing.
The notes below were written by Mel and found inside each reel canister.
The transfer of 10 reels of film to fits on 3 DVD-R's.
The DVD-R's have a menuing system so you can
directly access each reel. -Tim 2004
DVD - Part 1 (Apr1957 - Nov1959)
Reel#1 Apr 1957 - Sep 1957 (7" - 400ft)
- Timmy in snowstorm (April 1957)
- Easter Tim and Chris (Johnson)
- Picture of Plummer Mine (iron ore)
- Our cabin at Owen Lake, MN
- Tim and Faith in boat and ducks
- Linser family at our house
- Ed Wick (Pa) going in back door at his house
- The 4th of July parade at Coleraine (1957)
- Mary Ellen on water skis at Pike Lake
- Melvin trying to get up (3rd time - made it!!!)
- Timmy's birthday (2 yrs) (July 6, 1957) at Phoxey's cabin at Pike Lake
- Tim at playground in Hibbing
- Sam's (Helmer Wick) 35th birthday - everybody there except Pa (working)
- Pa's train #204 - where they are loaded
- Washing plant - where the train cars are dumped
- Joyce and Joe Turk at our cabin
- Train wreck in Pengilly (1957)
- Ed Wick's (Pa) house in Marble MN
- Pa, Tim, and Tuffy counting 1-2-3 (trick with a sugar lump)
- The 47th Bovey Farmer's Day (Labor Day 1957)
- Tim's day inside house
Reel#2 Oct 1957 - May 1958 (7" - 400ft)
- Freda and Albert's farm located north of Aitkin, MN
- Tim drinking beer in Sleepy Eye, MN
- Tim's little car from Uncle Charlie
- Thanksgiving at Grandma Fuller's house
- Melvin's Birthday (Nov 1957)
- Faith's painting class
- Tim and Wilbert Kangas kids
- Christmas 1957 at Sam's house (Grand Rapids)
- Tim at Christmas 1957 at home (Marble)
- Tim and Daddy shoveling snow
- Tim, Jimmie Joe Turk, Kim at our house
- Kim's baptism in March 1958
- Pa and Tim making snowman in backyard
- Ski Jumpers at Coleraine 1958 (Mt Itasca)
Bob Riley is the one who fell
- Tim and other kids at Mt. Iron play in Toots' car.
- Doug and David (Charle's kids) and Tim swinging in Mt. Iron school yard.
- Leo, Joe, Len, Inka and "little" Charlie at Leo's cabin at Lake Leander
- Mom feeding Kim (first time) 1958
- Kim all dressed up.
- Kim and Tim swinging at Virgina park on picnic with Dr. Payne
- Porcupine at Owen Lake - also 2 deer
- Pa and Tim by sign at Lost Lake - also with fish
- Squirrel at Rapids Riverside Park (windy day)
- Faith's nursery class in basement (Fairyland) with Jon and Kim.
(out of sequence - Jan 1961)
Reel#3 June 1958 - Nov 1959 (7" - 400ft)
- Tim and Jimmy Joe Turk at cabin (Owen Lake)
- Buggs and Alva in Bemidji, MN
- Kimberly at 5 months
- Marble's Golden Jubilee - Tim in parade
- Hulda and Lois from Aitkin
- Indians dancing in Bigfork
- Tim, Faith and Joe riding in Mary Ellen's boat
- Tim's 3rd birthday at our home in Marble
- Tim and deer at Scenic State Park
- Faith, Beverly and Hal on the North Shore
- Pa, Tim and a big bass at our cabin on Owen Lake
- Sam and Kathy in Pa's flowers in backyard
- Tim in sandpile at cabin
- Tim and Kim (Kim at 7 months)
- Tim playing in leaves at cabin
- Albert's pigs at his farm by Aitkin
- Train wreck at Coleraine's ore car loader dock
- Christmas 1958 - (Kim at 10 months)
- Kimberly's first birthday (Feb 2, 1959)
- Arcturus Pit Operations (stripping) truck hauling to dump
- Jon's baptism (June 1959) Betty and Axel Johnson sponsors
- Tim in Johnny Doughboy's Parade
- Tim's 4th Birthday (July 6, 1959)
- Leo, Joe, "Mrs. Fuller", and Joellen at house in Calumet
- Tim and Kim on small train at Duluth Zoo
- Under Aerial Bridge at Duluth where boat enter harbor
- Tim picking berries in 1959
- Tim and Kim playing in sprinkler at Calumet house
- Kim at cabin in evening (kind of dark)
- Halloween 1959 - Jon, Kim and Tim
- Linser family at our house in Calumet
- Lookout Mt. - skiing in Virginia
- Sliding with Kangas family
- Kimberly in bathtub (and Tim)
DVD - Part 2 (Dec 1959 - Sep1964)
Reel#4 Dec 1959 - Dec 1961 (7" - 400ft)
- Christmas at Sam and Val's house 1959
- Grandma, Grandpa, Lorraine, Eddie and all the kids
- Christmas at our house in Calumet (Dec 25, 1959)
- Kim's birthday at house in Calument (Feb 2, 1960)
- The 4th of July 1960 at Coleraine
- Tim, Kim and Kangas' kids in parade
- Tim's 5th birthday at Fairyland Park (July 6, 1960)
- Mom and flowers in Park
- Jon - a little over 1 year old (July 1960)
- Faith, kids and I on the way to church
- Pictures of Fairyland with Sam, Val and family
- By Old Woman in Shoe and Winken, Blinken, Nod scenes
- Christmas 1960 - our 1st Christmas at Fairyland.
- Kim with long hair
- Sliding at Mt. Iron (forgot to remove blue filter)
- Tim getting on and off school bus for 1st day of school.
- Orville Freeman (Gov. of MN) speaking at Bovey Farmer's Day.
- Hubert Humphrey (US Senator) in white shirt at Farmer's Day (Sept 1960)
- Tim, Kim, and Jon playing in the snow by front of house
- Easter 1961 at Mt. Iron
- Snowstorm in April 1961
- July 4, 1961 - Tim, Kim and Kangas's in Coleraine Parade
- Tim's 6th birthday with his "little friends"
- Sam, Val, Lorraine, Eddie, Mel, Faith and
all kids that night (July 6, 1961)
- Merry-go-round at park. Flowers at park. Large Zionias.
- Tim, Kim, and Jon with puppy (Frisky)
- Christmas 1961 at home (Fairyland Park)
- First pictures of Heidi (Dec 1961)
- Christmas 1961 - Grandma Fuller holding Heidi
- Kim's 4th birthday
- Trip to Duluth Zoo
- July 4th parade with Tom and Danny Linser as Yogi and Booboo
Reel#5 July 1962 - Oct 1963 (7" - 400ft)
- July or Aug 1962 at Brainerd's Paul Bunyan park and Bambi land
- Charlie Beck's kids and ours at Como Park
- Heidi crawling around (Sept 1962)
- Christmas 1962 - Heidi, Jon, Kim, Tim
- Heidi with patch on eye before operation
- Faith showing off sweater made for me
- Kim's birthday (Feb 2, 1963) family doing Twister
- Mel's big fish (14lbs. 8oz.) caught at Bass Lake
- Tim playing the piano
- Heidi eating cake
- Faith's school pictures of safety - no toys on stairway
- Kids taking nap and bath combing hair
- Watching TV, Popcorn, and having a good meal
- Phoxey and Ellen were here for that meal.
- Easter 1963 with rabbit "Pinkie"
- Tim's birthday at Grandma Wick's house with Lorraine, Val and families.
- Tim at Camp Warren
- Camp pictures taken by counciler
(must of had camera on telephoto lens the whole time)
- Tim's 1st year at Camp Warren (YMCA) on Half Moon Lake by Eveleth.
- Tim's 8th birthday at home 1963 - That year he had 3 parties:
Camp Warren, Grandma's house, our house
- Trip to Chicago to see George Hay
- Brookfield Zoo by Chicago
- O'Hare Airport by Chicago
- First day of School 1963 for Tim and Kim together.
- Joy Schroeder, Jon, Tim, and Kim walking by a fence.
- Heidi and rest of family digging pumpkins.
- Halloween 1963
- Tim 3rd grade - Kim in Kindergarten
Reel#6 Nov 1963 - Sep 1964 (7" - 400ft)
- Heidi's 2nd birthday
- Christmas 1963 (Kim, Tim, Jon, Heidi, Grandma, Grandpa)
- Kim's 6th birthday (Feb 2, 1964)
- Easter rabbits - Kim, Heidi, Jon
- Jon's 5th birthday (May 11, 1964)
- Plum tree in bloom by Old Woman Who Lived in the Shoe
- 4th of July 1964 Parade in Coleraine
- Kim and Heidi in rabbit clothes
- Our car with kids and Faith on top
- Bigfork Parade - kids
- Faith, Brother Bruce and wife Marilyn at Uncle Phoxey's cabin
- More at Phoxey's cabin
- August 1964 - vacation at Black Hills, SD
- Itasca State Park
DVD - Part 3 (Nov1964 - Dec1973)
Reel#7 Nov 1964 - Aug 1965 (7" - 400ft)
- Heidi's 3rd birthday - Lepola's in for cake
- Faith's class in school
- Christmas 1964 at our house
- Heidi and "Bare skin baby"
- Kids and Faith skiing at Mt. Itasca in Coleraine
- Tim broke his leg skiing (Jan 3, 1965)
- Danny Linser
- Kim's 7th birthday and riding bikes in snow
- Tim on crutches
- Blackie
- Square dancing at Busse's house in Marble with the
O'Brien's, Lepisto's, Busse's and us
- Easter 1965
- Old cars traveling around -
stopped and showed them at Fairyland Park
- Family at Duluth Zoo
- Mt. Iron's 75th Anniversary
- Inka on horse in Mt. Iron by Leo's home
- Our vacation started Aug 7, 1965 -
heading for Wash. state to Canada, then home
- Medora, ND (burning coal vein)
- Our Camper (P&C) on new 1965 Chev truck
- North Dakota Badlands - Prairie Dogs
- Fixing road through Bear Tooth Pass on way to Yellowstone
- Kids in Snow Falls - Bear at Yellowstone
- Picnic - Faith and kids swimming with Grand Tetons in background
- Chair lift at Mt. Rainier
- Taking pictures while driving
- Swimming in the Pacific Ocean
- Bruce and Marilyn - also with them at Point Defiance
- Seattle World's Fair - (3 years late)
- Pier 56 - seal show - Namu (the only killer whale in captivity)
- Pickup ('65 Chev) parked back of Bruce's house in Burly, Washington
- With Bruce and Marilyn at Deception Pass with us (Left that day for Canada)
- Swimming at Silver Sands, Canada
- Jon getting wood at Yho Yho Park
- Banff Gondola Lift down to Glacier Park, Montana
Reel#8 Sept 1965 - Feb 1967 (7" - 400ft)
- Kids coming home from school (first day Sept 1965)
- Christmas 1965
- First year of skiing for everyone - we are much better now -
better equipped too.
- Kim's birthday party (Feb 2, 1966) 8 years old
- Joe Johnson's family at ski hill
- Some 45 ton trucks at King Mine
- In a shed, at Freda and Albert's farm
- Easter 1966
- Jon's and Grandfather's birthday - May 1966
- Kid's riding bikes by Park
- 4th of July Parada in Coleraine
- Lorraine, Heidi, Jon and Kim - Danny racing 4th
- August 1966 starting vacation
- Swimming at Phoxey's cabin
- Kakabaka Falls
- Campground's at Fort William (Thunder Bay)
- Soo Locks - Mack. Bridge
- Deer Forest at Coloma, Mich - Cowboy Sam
- George Hay and family at Zoo in Chicago
- "Archway to the West" in St. Louis
- And another Zoo in St. Louis
- Itasca State Park - crossing the source of the Mississippi
- Greenway State Hockey Champs - 1967 (some of the 6 mile parade)
- Skiing at Mount Itasca
Reel#9 July 1967 - Aug 1972 (7" - 400ft)
- 4th of July 1967 in Coleraine
- Faith at Day Activity Center kids and Heidi
- Tim's birthday (12 years) in back of Fairyland Park
- Tim putting out flag
- Our fancy French poodle, "Le Bou Jouet"
- Bruce and Marilyn
- Family trip 1967
- Black Hills, Donkeys, Flintstone's City
- Kids getting off bus at Fairyland
- Parade on Labor Day (1967)
- Family, Grandma, Pa, Hulda, Freda at Aks-ar-ben garden's near Aitkin.
- Camping - Horseback riding - Black Hills
- 1968 - Grandpa fishing at Crooked Lake
- Lawrence and Ester camping Itasca State Park
- Kim going to Legionville (1968)
- Tim in deer stand (1968)
- Phoxey's cabin ('69-'70)
- Florida trip with Cass's for LLL
- Skiing at Mt. Itasca in Coleraine (1970)
- Herb Lepisto skiing at Mt. Itasca
- Duluth - Lake Superior excursion
- Train ride at railroad museum in Green Bay, Wisc
- Snowmobiling (1971-72)
- Summer Cabin (1972)
- Jon standing on head
- Gretchen
- Kim's softball team
- California Visitors
- Hal and wife
- Soap Box Derby Race 1972
- Trip to Wisconsin Dells
- Cabin pictures (Aug 24, 1972)
Reel#10 Sept 1973 - Dec 1973 (3" - 50ft)
- (There are no notes about this single 3" reel.)
- Jon at A-frame on the Mississippi
- Skiing at Sugar Hills
- Kim and John Grooms kiss on the T-bar
- Jon skis with 1 leg
- Kim and Heidi playing Baseball
- Heidi hits home run