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Oster
Bayne at 13 in 1953. |
Oster
Bayne in 2000. |
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Bayne
clan at the 2005 Creole Annuitants Association Reunion
in Orlando. |
Oster
Bayne was born at the Shell Hospital in Bella
Vista in 1940. I'm grateful to him for preserving
these historical reference photographs for so many
years and for allowing me to post them here for all
of us to see the way the Creole Camp, Oster's
family, and his friends used to look a half-century
or more ago.
Oster
writes: “My father, also named Oster, worked
for Creole from 1925 (then Lago Petroleum) to his
retirement in 1953. We lived in the Creole camp in
Maracaibo and I and my brothers and sisters (Diana,
Ele, Rosemarie, Andrew and Henry) all went to Escuela
Bella Vista and were frequent users of the Creole
camp club house and other company facilities. After
leaving Venezuela, I was educated in Trinidad and
then England, graduating as a Civil Engineer, working
mainly in the UK but often abroad including South
America, but never Venezuela. I am now retired myself
living in Hertfordshire with my wife Susan and 3 children
that live nearby.”
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“Taken in
about 1938 with my sisters Diana and Ele plus in the middle,
my cousin Marlene (Ursula's) in front of House 16 which, as
I recall, was directly in front of the Club entrance.”
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“Here
we have, in mid flight, that almost internationally famous acrobat,
David Gomez, tossed in the air by the troupe of English swimmers
visiting Maracaibo with one staying behind and earning his living,
at least at first, by selling eggs, door to door as it were.
That was the chap with the hat as I recall.” |
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| “A
group photo taken at my 12th birthday party in February 1952.
....If memory serves me, front row I think is, left to right,
Orlando Ortiz? (not sure) David Reese, Adrian Paulett and my
brother Andrew Bayne. Middle row, L - R, Oster Bayne, David
Eccles, David Gomez, Bobby Taylor (looking for something very
small?). Back row, Frankie Ashford, then not sure of the other
three but the tallest one was Buzz (Dennis) Barclay.” |
“A photo
of two lads on the high diving board at Creole camp, circa
1953... Left I make it David Gomez and right Adrian Paulett.”
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The Bayne Family,
taken in 1949, while living in Maracaibo. Front L to R: Ele,
Diana, Henry, Olga. Back L to R: Oster Jr., Rosemarie, Andrew.
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Cub Scouts, EBV, 1950.
Though this photo was originally provided by Douglas Becker,
I include it here because it includes a picture of Oster Bayne's
brother, Henry, as a member of this Cub Scout pack.
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Poolside, Creole Club,
L to R: Andrew, Oster, Rosmarie, Ele & Diana Bayne, Maracaibo,
1952.
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Creole
Club, Maracaibo - Carnival 1952. L to R: Louise Roberts, a pirate,
Marlene Bayne (La Salina), Diana Bayne. |
1954
- Back L to R - Rex Morgan, Orlando Ortiz & Frank Ashford.
Front L to R - Karen Nixon (astride the bike), Sylivia Fowler
and Eleanor ?? |
The “ Fearsome
Foursome”, in 1956: left to right, David Gomez,
Frank Ashford, Paul Bingham, & Bobby Taylor.
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Taken in July, 1957:
Frank Ashford & David Gomez poolside at the Creole Club,
cold Cerveza Zulia's in-hand.
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What they look
like today: taken at the Creole Reunion,
Birmingham, Alabama, 2001. Seated, L to R: David Gomez, Karen
Nixon; standing L to R: Margaret Nyquist, Linda Riedell.
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Oster writes, “
Photo (taken in January 2003) of David Gomez, holding
our
newest baby, Kayla, a Border Collie, 9 weeks old.”
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