This photograph is of my grandmother, Margaret (Kelly) Birkenbach, second from the right. She was born in southern Ohio in 1904. Judging from her age, this photograph was most likely taken in 1915 or 1916, when she would have been 11 or 12 years old and her sister, Katie Ruth Kelly, on the far left, […]
Mom graduated from Lincoln High School in Sioux Falls, SD in 1975. At the time she thought she’d major in interior design. She ended up in child development and worked for a long time as the Director of Child Life at Children’s Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska. That’s where my sister and I were born. Mom […]
Sometimes the best trip is the one down memory lane. My grandmother Gladys (center, in red trousers) plays shuffleboard on board a ship to Canada to visit cousins. The photo shows her having fun and playing games, which she always enjoyed. She was a great card player too. The photo is from the treasure trove […]
Today is my mom’s 85th birthday. Here she is, little Dolores Irwin, on her way to St. Mary’s Star of Sea church for her first communion in 1938 in Baltimore, Maryland. She is telling me right now at her kitchen table that this was in her great-aunt Minnie’s yard. It backed up to her grandmother’s […]
Meet my paternal great-grandfather Jesse, a red-headed blue-eyed guy of (mostly) Scottish extraction. Here, he’s sitting with his grandsons. When Jesse married his wife in a Virginia/North Carolina border town, they decided to move up North to Jersey for a better life because they were a mixed-race couple. Once settled, Jesse got a job in […]
I was recently given an old box full of some of my grandpa’s photo equipment. In that box were two rolls of film. I scanned them and discovered some beautiful gems I had never seen before of my grandparent’s lives during the 1950s. It might be my favorite photo of my grandmother. ~shared by @kimsabbatino […]
I could look at this photo all day, every day. Taken in Jalisco, Mexico in the early 1950s, this photo shows my mom Maria (the girl in the dark dress) with her mother and sisters. They lived in a little pueblo called Villa Guerrero in the state of Jalisco in Mexico. My grandmother was called […]
My dad as a yound boy, young man, husband and dad. He was a family man. He used to say, “I am not rich in money, but in how much happiness you guys have brought me.” He was born in Romania in the country and after high school, he moved to Bucharest. That’s where he […]
Me at the Memphis zoo, circa 1965. I had a broken arm from flying out of the tire swing we had. As I recall, I went over a small maple tree, then crashed and broke my arm in two places. I love the Hitchcock-ish lady walking in the background…not to mention the peacock sneaking up […]
My favorite picture of my grandparents, taken sometime in the early 1950’s in Georgia. When they met, they were on dates with different people, but my grandpa knew he wanted my grandmother and wouldn’t leave her alone until she finally gave in and went on a date with him. They’ve been together ever since. ~shared […]
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