Mama’s birthday is today. She would’ve been turning 86. Here we are, thick as thieves in December of 1961, with my beloved Gund Cubbi bear, that I still have of course. I was 2 and she was 32. Lots of our photos are of me standing on something, mostly cars it seems. They waited later […]
“A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of a mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them.” – Albert Einstein Cookout. Peabody, Massachusetts. June 1961. […]
My grandparents Jim and Tommie Sue were both teenagers when they met on a little dirt road in a small town in the 1950s. They got married soon after and had four children together in six years. Jim is in his eighties now, but he still has that twinkle in his eye and a mischievous […]
Over a hundred years ago, my great grandfather Girolamo (better known as Jerome) Gargano was born in Palermo, Sicily. According to the story my Grandpa told us, times were tough in Sicily for Jerome’s family when he was a little boy. So, his family sent him to America when he was only eight years old […]
Just found this photo of my Mum from 1967 next to my Dad’s bed. She died 7 years ago. On the back he wrote,”Patricia, making my car so attractive.” This photograph would have been taken shortly after they first met. My father was very proud of his Triumph Spitfire sports car, which he probably thought […]
Meet my Aunt Fran. My words will never do her justice; I can never properly explain how much she means to my family and me. And to me, this is the most beautiful photograph ever taken. Whenever I stayed with Aunt Fran, I would carry this photo around wherever I went. She gave it to […]
This photo was taken of our mom Shirley and our father Hugh shortly after he returned from overseas. Mom loves this photo because it reminds her of the early days of their romance and her independent spirit as a working girl. Apparently, everyone in their office except for them knew they were smitten with each […]
My granpa Chuck back in his boxing days, circa 1957. I found this picture in an old photo album while visiting my grandmother in Tulsa, Oklahoma. My grandfather (pictured far left) was one of the premier black boxers in Oklahoma from the mid 1950s through the 1960s. I assume this was taken right after a […]
On my way home from London for my niece’s birthday party, I stopped in at my grandmother’s house for a cup of tea and did my favourite thing – raided the family albums. It’s the first time I’ve seen this treasure. These are my Great Grandparents Jens Anton and Jytte Larsen on their wedding day […]
Gene and Lela. This photo of my great grandparents was taken in 1948 shortly after their wedding. It’s the closet thing to a wedding photo we have. I love how happy they look, especially my great grandma Lela. This was the start of a new life, a new and happier chapter. In 1942 at the […]
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