Fort Knox, Wilder, and Covington KY Album: Miami Beach Trip Nov 1956

These photos come from an album I bought on eBay several years ago. The album is not in good shape, it was probably not intended to be used as a photo album, the paper is non archival, thin white paper. The photos are taped in place with scotch tape. So far I only found one photo with writing on the back. I am calling this the Fort Knox album as several of the photos are of a soldier who went through basic at Fort Knox. The only other identifying place names I can find is a Wilder Volunteer Fire Department, and a soldier who lived at 2237 Madison Ave, Covington, KY.  Wilder is in Kentucky.

Refer to this post, Soldiers, from 2013 for a photo of 3 soldiers, whose last names are Ferring, Harrison, and Kovach.

Here are a few of many photos taken on a vacation to Miami Beach in November 1956, although a few are labeled November 1957. It looks like they either rented a furnished cottage or visited family or friends.

Update 3/2/2023: While looking in newspapers dot com for the name Carolyn Spears I found a photo of Carolyn with a group of auto drivers' club members, one of whom was an Edward Ferring, and that is definitely the tall man with glasses in these photos. 

Fort Knox, Wilder, and Covington, KY Album: Christmas Day 1956

These photos come from an album I bought on eBay several years ago. The album is not in good shape, it was probably not intended to be used as a photo album, the paper is non archival, thin white paper. The photos are taped in place with scotch tape. So far I only found one photo with writing on the back. I am calling this the Fort Knox, Wilder, and Covington album as several of the photos are of a soldier who went through basic at Fort Knox. The only other identifying place names I can find is a Wilder Volunteer Fire Department, and a soldier who lived at 2237 Madison Ave, Covington, KY.  Wilder is in Kentucky.

Refer to this post from 2013: Soldiers for a photo of 3 soldiers, whose last names are Ferring, Harrison, and Kovach.

Here are the photos from the first page. They are labeled Christmas Day 1956.

U.S. Army, Probably Fort Knox, 1960's

This is one of several photos from an album I bought on ebay many years ago. There are 3 young soldiers. The last names are Harrison, Kovach, and Fleming (as best as I can make out).  One has the first name of Ras or Ros, he lived at 2237 Madison Avenue,Covington, Kentucky, One is Wally. The photo belonged to Ed, according to the inscription on the back.

9/11/2015: I believe the soldier named Fleming owned this album as he is definitely in many other photos throughout the album. I'm pretty sure his first name is Ed.

2/21/2022: I'm quite sure Harrison is Roscoe Harrison, as I found him in the city directories living at the address he wrote on the back of this photo. Update, I discovered Roscoe died in 2012.

3/2/2023: I have discovered the soldier who owned this album was not Ed Fleming but Ed Ferring, I misread his name tag on his uniform.

Update: 9/11/2015: I will be posting more photos from this album each day the next week.