Theodore Dost

This is one of the only images of my father in which he does not seem to be wearing a moustach. I believe the picture dates from 1958. My mother said she never saw my father without his moustach and so he shaved it away. She said she preferred the moustach and that is why he he had a moustach ever since. His glasses. His moustach and his pipe were kind of his signature props. People always remember him as the slim be speckled guy smoking a pipe. It's funny the image of my clean shaven father should be accidently preserved in a souveneer photo from the SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY building in Chicago, Illinois. The photographer and his old fashioned equipment were part of a museum display of the Streets of Old CHICAGO.