Lyle Carringer, U.S. Marine Reserves -- (Not So) Wordless Wednesday #914

  This is a priceless (to me) image in my computer file folders from the Carringer family collection:

The photograph is of my maternal grandfather, Lyle Lawrence Carringer (1891-1976) in his U.S. Marine Reser4ves unifrom, probably taken in 1917 as he attended boot camp at Balboa Park in San Diego, or after when he served in the PX (Post eXchange) at the base. 

He is standing in front of the Carringer palm tree near the northeast corner of 30th Street and Hawthorn Street in San Diego, California. The palm tree can be seen in other Carringer family photographs from 1900 until about 1950. 

My guess is that his mother, Della (Smith) Carringer, took this photograph. The original photograph is black and white.  I requested Google Gemini 3 to enhance and colorize the black and white photograph as seen above.

This event is part of my family history!!

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