My grandfather (1876-1956) around 1920
While going through some old storage containers that hadn't seen the light of day more years than I care to admit I came across this old image taken of my grandfather. The picture worn was torn but I but me best efforts into digitally restoring it and did a decent job. Still I look across time trying to read the soul of this man over a hundred years in my past. From what my father told me he was a proper gentleman that almost always wore a proper suit and a tie most days. One regret I had was not pressing my father for more stories about him. One story my father did tell was his sarcastic take on prohibition on the ban of the sale of alcohol in the US which he said was only passed in his opinion was that women getting the vote was going to happen and a lot of gutless politicians scarred of offending the millions of new voters passed the amendment to ban alcohol to appease them. Still to think he grew up when people rode around by horseback and did their business in a outhouse he lived to see a world with jet airplanes, the atomic bomb and television and probably no other generation in human history saw as much technological change as his did.
My grandfather (1876-1956) around 1920
While going through some old storage containers that hadn't seen the light of day more years than I care to admit I came across this old image taken of my grandfather. The picture worn was torn but I but me best efforts into digitally restoring it and did a decent job. Still I look across time trying to read the soul of this man over a hundred years in my past. From what my father told me he was a proper gentleman that almost always wore a proper suit and a tie most days. One regret I had was not pressing my father for more stories about him. One story my father did tell was his sarcastic take on prohibition on the ban of the sale of alcohol in the US which he said was only passed in his opinion was that women getting the vote was going to happen and a lot of gutless politicians scarred of offending the millions of new voters passed the amendment to ban alcohol to appease them. Still to think he grew up when people rode around by horseback and did their business in a outhouse he lived to see a world with jet airplanes, the atomic bomb and television and probably no other generation in human history saw as much technological change as his did.