JoAnna posted: " My Dad with Me and my Baby Sister 1958 Today's prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: "photograph." Use it as a noun or a verb or both. Have fun! The older I get, the more I enjoy looking at old photographs - pieces of family history. " Anything is Possible!
Today'sprompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: "photograph." Use it as a noun or a verb or both. Have fun!
The older I get, the more I enjoy looking at old photographs - pieces of family history. It's strange that we don't keep many paper photographs anymore, aside from some school pictures of my kids and granddaughter and wedding photos, most photos are just saved on phones or in the cloud.
After my dad died, there were several photo albums and hundreds of loose photos to go through- many in boxes and those envelopes we used to get when we took film to the drug store to be developed. It was hard to throw some of them away, but there were just too many to keep them all. The process was emotional and enlightening.
I think I'll just share a few of my favorites and leave it at that. These are mostly in chronological order except for the last one of Dad's high school football team in 1947.
Dad's mom picking berries
Dad home on Leave. The baby is my older cousin.
Before Dad met Mom
Dad and Mom
Mom, my big sister Linda and Me
Me, Mom and Dad on a picnic in Newfoundland
I'm still using Mom's hutch.
Mom must be thinking of Dad who was in Vietnam.
Green Bay High School Football Team 1947
In the last photo my dad is #74, the tall, good looking guy in the middle of the back row. He got sick for several weeks his junior or senior year with something serious, maybe it was pneumonia, or meningitis, I don't remember. Dad wanted to come back and play football before his was better, but the coach would not let him play while sick which made my dad mad. This was one of the factors that led him to join the Marine Corps before graduating from high school. He told me he joined the Marines because he was tired of people telling him what to do. He got his high school equivalency certificate while serving in the Corps.
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