Photograph of Lloyd Baldwin with Fireworks Equipment

This black-and-white photograph shows Lloyd F. Baldwin, posed outdoors on a lawn with some fireworks equipment. Trees and homes are visible behind him. The photographer, A.V. Shirk, lived next door to Baldwin. Shirk's parents, Albin (Al) B. and Maxine Gail Shirk, moved the family to 525 Meadoway Park in 1947. Lloyd and Helen Baldwin owned the house next door, 517 Meadoway Park, from 1946 to 1955.

A.V. Shirk wrote: "For some years, the Colonial Hills Civic Association had a Colonial Hills fireworks display every Fourth of July. Lloyd Baldwin, who lived in the house next door to the west of us on Meadoway Park, handled the fireworks which were set off up near Indianola Avenue, by the railroad tracks. Lloyd worked for the Kilgore Manufacturing Company, in Westerville, which made munitions during World War II. It also made the finest cap guns I have ever seen; both for roll caps and disc caps. One disk cap gun in particular that I had when I was a kid, was gold plated; and I wish I still had it. It was beautifully made. I heard Lloyd tell my father that the U.S. Treasury Department (I think) told Kilgore that they would have to use less gold in the plating, or the guns would have to be sold as jewelry."

Shirk grew up in Colonial Hills and graduated from Worthington High School in 1956.