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A photo of the Church of the Living God with the full congregation. Myrtle Overstreet helped found this church in Valley View, North of Santa Fe and South of Mill. In the right front is Nancy Pugh (white dress) with Rosalyn Overstreet. Most of congregation is not yet identified.
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A photo of David and Essie Greens family at their new home which David built in San Bernardino after moving from Pasadena. All eleven children present; Left to R from back Annette, David Lewis, Irma Jean, Essie, Tallest Oliver, David (dad), Patsy, Opal, Zoie. In front (L-R) Daniel, Lorena, Alonzo, standing Roy.
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A photo of the garden Grannie Myrtle Overstreet would plant on her Norman Road property which included greens, ocra, and avocado trees.
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A photo of two unknown women sitting on front porch of home holding a young baby. One woman has her hands up to her face and the other in Black dress looks exhausted. The back of the photo says 1931, indicating the date.
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A photo a plot of land that belonged to Myrtle and Sydney Overstreet at the corner of Norman Road & Waterman, where in earlier decades the Overstreets tried to develop a drive in restaurant. The blue house across the street belonged to the McMurrays, the house in the middle is on Lincoln and belonged to Wilson and Willie Brue. Past the stop sign on Waterman, you would find Aunt Ethel's house.
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A black and white photo of Genora Haynes posing, she lived on Norman Road in a home to the left of the Overstreet family. The house may still exist next to Kohls warehourse. She was also a good friend of Grandma Myrtle Overstreet. First scrapbook page photo.
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A photo of Mother Lucinda Harper on the left and Maxine Baker on the right in front of St. Mark's church.
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A photo of Sally Morris and Maxine Baker Ramsey in front of St.Marks church overlooking open fields across Central. The background displays the rural character of the Valley before development that escalated from the 1990s onward.
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A photo Johnny Morris and two girls from church at their house, apart of a larger scrapbook.
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A photo of Dennis Jackson, who was Rosalee Jackson's youngest son, standing on St. Mark's porch looking across the street to Valley landscape.
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An additional accompaning photo of Oscar and a girl at Central house playing, you can see Obrera house across the street.
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A black and white photo of Myrna, a girl, Rosalyn, and Oscar in front of the house they just moved into. In the background was where Victoria and Bill White lived next door (parents of Vera White Saville and Pedro White) and William White (who was in the band) on the corner of Foisy and Central.
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Annette Overstreet cutting Mrs Coolie's hair in her salon in her home, datedJune 1968.
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Sherwood Warren's children with boys on either end Kurt & Kirk, Middle front Cathy, Tall girl in back Michelle, boy in middle Anthony, girl on right Yolanda. Located at Norman road by the Overstreet house of Aunt Myrtle and Uncle Sid (granchildren of Elvie). In the background is BBQ pit.
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A photo of Canaan Temple, church on East side of Waterman, just south of Central, past Ms Chapels house as it moved in across the street. Myrtle Overstreet is third from right in back row, 3rd in front row is Ms Lewis, Celeste Lister (her granddaughter) with white sandals.
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A photo of the cafe that Sidney Overstreet was trying to develop as a drive in, unfortunately it never opened. This was the original location of Mrs McDowell's Cafe first on the NE Corner of Waterman and Norman Rd. Front row Rosalyn Overstreet, Myrna Overstreet. Back row Sidney Overstreet Sr, JD Goodwin at Drive in on Waterman and Norman Rd in San Bernardino CA, all names were written on the back.
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Photo of Oscar Overstreet in the Army at Fort Eustis sitting on a car.
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A portrait of the identified members of the Board of Trustees of St. Mark's Missionary Baptist Church. From front left to right are Brothers Harper, Barrier, and White. In the back row from left to right are Brothers Bellnavis, Benton, and Ward. All are dressed in their formal church attire and posed on the steps in front of the exterior front doors of the church.
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A select Board of Deacon members from St. Mark's Missionary Baptist Church pose for a photo. The bottom text reads, "BOARD OF DEACONS, PICTURED LEFT TO RIGHT: Deacons Byas. Gilmore. Howard. Jackson. Thomas. Ward, NOT PICTURED: Deacons Bell. Bennett. Benson. Cash. Mann. and White."
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Pastor Percy Jackson poses for a portrait inside St. Mark's Missionary Baptist Church. He is wearing a red clergy robe and holding a bible in hand. "The fourth and current pastor, Percy Harper, started his Pastorate at St. Mark’s Missionary Baptist Church as interim pastor in
July of 1987 when Pastor Williams passed away and was voted in as full pastor in April 1988" (Valley Truck Farms Scrapbook, 2019.)
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Group photo of smiling churchgoers in their Sunday attire seated in the pews inside St. Mark's Missionary Baptist Church. Deacons sitting in the front include far left Andrew Swanson and Mr. Etherly who lived on Norman Road (3rd from left). Ola McDowell is visible 4th row from the back on the right.
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A candid photo depicting Pastor Freeman Williams and his wife Mrs. Lucille Williams, dressed in formal attire and seated at a table.
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This photo represents the Valley Recreation Center, supported by federal funds during the Great Depression. In 1944 as St. Mark's Missionary Baptist outgrew its original sanctuary and began reconstruction, it met in this building from 1944-1946.
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During a church service, Donald Jackson and other churchgoers congregate at St. Mark's Missionary Baptist Church. Churchgoers stand in the pews, likely participating in a service activity.