mystery photos [revised]

One of the cool things about sorting through old stuff is that you run across photos you'd all but forgotten about. These were taken at Pat O'Brien's. For my handful of faithful readers, here's a little quiz: What city? What year? And why ARE these people smiling?

[They were smiling because they knew, many years later, they would have a son who would join the two photos into one, seamlessly, even to the point of removing a white box on the wall above Dad's head. Nice work, ol' buddy! Here's your masterpiece.]