Piazza San Marco Venezia, July 1978

This first photo I believe was taken in Piazza San Marco Venezia, or in English, Saint Mark's Square in Venice.  Photo was taken in July 1978. My eldest brother, Chris, is swatting in the middle trying to get the attention of some piegeons, while middle brother, Patrick (stripped shirt to the right) is probably bringing more crackers to help feed the birds.

The arches are the only standout in the background.  My more seasoned-travelers friends immediately replied back with the location and photos from Google images to confirm.

Old family photos

I was supposed to start this over a year ago when I started planning a vacation to visit Italy.

I love how some people recreated photographs, with the original image in the foreground and re-photographed present time.  Or reenactment photos are neat. Just google to see what I'm talking about.

Anyhow, this (for me) started years ago when my parents were going thru their divorce in 1995.  It's was a bad one that was dragged out over a couple of years. Dad took possession of all the family photo albums.  Some of them documented the years we lived in Italy, and the family vacations across Europe. Mom and Dad took the time to lay out the photos nicely, and in order, of their trips. Even handwriting captions as to what they saw, ate or experienced. Dad thought he was entitled to keep all the photos since they were taken with his camera, and he paid for all the developing.  At the time, we didn't care.  

Fast forward to 2003. Dad is dying in a hospital bed in the VA hospital in San Diego.  We get the call from family friends, as we were not in touch with him since finalizing the divorce.  He is no longer able to speak, but is happy to see us as he smiled with tears in his eyes. We make peace and are all together when he finally passes weeks later.  After the funeral, we clean up his condo, and look for the photo albums.  We don't find them, instead we find all the photos in a box. Most are intact, none of them are in any kind of order. Some of them are cut in half or have Mom's face cut out (again, bitter divorce).

Mom remembers most of the places, but can't place the church, exact city or country... And after watching Lion, I knew that the Google community would be helpful in finding these places.

And now here we are... If you can, let me know where you believe these places are.  If I can confirm, I will update location information. Thanks in advance for all of your help.

-L