Picnic circa 1950

Here's a home movie of a family picnic with many of the same people in "Home Movie circa 1951" posted February 8th, 2012.

In the order they appear in the movie are:
"Little Jackie",
Art Mylott, behind "Little Jackie" dancing on the picnic table and swinging her around,
Dorothy Wills Mylott holding Little Jackie and later playing tennis,
Unidentified older couple, formerly thought to be Yettos
Baby W and his mother Claire holding him with "Little Jackie" on the side
Emile Rivet hugging Malvina Hamel his wife,
Walker Yetto lighting a cigarette,

Then there's a toast to the cameraman and for a brief moment at the very end, Al Rivet appears  wearing blue pants.

Home Movie Circa 1951...who is ???

After I posted the home movie clip, comments suggested the gentleman seen below is not Walker Yetto Sr.  Perhaps someone can help identify this gentleman.... If he is not a Yetto, he may be a brother of Malvina Hamel or Emile Rivet.  Please send your thoughts to FrancoAmerican Gravy if you think you know who he is! Thank you.

Home Movie circa 1951

Below is a home movie from Christmas 1951 with a few folks some Yetto, Rivet, Mylott family readers may recognize.  If you still cannot identify the adults after you watch the clip, you can get a little help figuring out the names of a few of the folks by scrolling down to the stills.

Here's the help identifying adults in the clip.................

Below is Marie Claire Rivet and her husband, Walker Yetto (Guertin)...

Next is Paul Emile Rivet

Below is Emile's son, Al Rivet

and next is Art Mylott

then Malvina Hamel, stepmother of Claire, Al and Ray Rivet and third wife of Emile Rivet

Dorothy Wills, wife of Arthur Mylott

I believe this gentleman may be Walker Yetto Sr

and finally Bill Bossidy and Lucy Messier

Yetto, Rivet, Mylott Picnic at Saratoga Lake, circa 1950 and Under Age Drinking!

There once was a time when a camp at the lake was really a camp.  It was rough living, no soft chairs and picnics weren't set up on patios. Food was simple and beer was cheap. After WWII, Americans wanted to have a little fun with their friends and family. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the effects of alcohol on toddlers, wasn't given much thought and you see what I mean when you watch this clip! In this home movie, Rivet, Yetto, Mylott, and LaMarche families and more gather together at Saratoga Lake where someone was renting a camp.  Don't be shocked when you see adults giving beer to toddlers - it was a totally different state of mind back then.

By the way, all four families -Rivet, Yetto, Mylott and LaMarche were French-Canadian family names with Anglicized spellings and/or pronunciations

Many of the children in the video are alive so I won't be naming young folks.  There are many older folks who have passed and I do recognize - Al Rivet, Art Mylott, Doris LaMarche, Walker Yetto.  You can catch a glimpse of a very young Margaret Yetto sitting on the picnic bench near the end of the clip. There's several other adults who I don't know....I would love help from any Yetto or LaMarche who might be able to name some of the adults!