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This terrific sign is located at Feagans Jewelers in downtown Charles Town, West Virginia. The store's website notes that the business has been family owned since 1953.
Note: I should have placed this photo -- and all of the other ones that I'll be uploading on April 18-19, 2015 -- at the end of this album of Washington, DC photos (i.e., the ones that got uploaded first), because they were taken in 1946, long after my mother had gotten divorced, and moved (with me) from Florida back to her mother's house in Washington, DC.
In a few of the photos, you'll note that my mother has now met, and presumably begun dating, my stepfather Ray Yourdon. He was based in Washington at the end of his Navy enlistment; and when it was all over, they got married and the family moved to Denver in 1947 (which you'll find in a separate Flickr album covering the period of 1947-50).
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Mom's note on this snapshot says, "The dishpan again". No specific date on this picture, so I've arbitrarily assigned the date of July 15th of 1946.
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All of the photos in this album are “originals” from the period when I was an infant in the mid-1940s — i.e., the period before I lived in Omaha, Riverside, Roswell, New York, Ft. Worth, and Denver (photos of which you may have seen already in my Flickr archives).
Before I get into the details, let me make a strong request — if you’re looking at these photos, and if you are getting any enjoyment at all of this brief look at some mundane Americana from 70+ years ago: find a similar episode in your own life, and write it down. Gather the pictures, clean them up, and upload them somewhere on the Internet where they can be found. Trust me: there will come a day when the only person on the planet who actually experienced those events is you. Your own memories may be fuzzy and incomplete; but they will be invaluable to your friends and family members, and to many generations of your descendants.
My own story changes dramatically at this point: the man I’ve presented as my Dad in previous Flickr albums, Ray Yourdon, was actually my stepfather. My birth parents grew up in Washington DC, married, and moved to Florida in the early days of World War II. My birth father worked as a flight instructor for the Air Force, and I was born on an Air Force base near Ft. Walton Beach, in the panhandle section of Florida (which you can read about here, if you’re interested: www.eglin.af.mil )
Some time after that, my parents divorced and my mother moved back to Washington with me, to live with her mother. After a bitter custody battle over me (so I’ve been told), I didn’t see my birth-father again until I was 30—at which point I was surprised to learn that I had three more half-sisters, in addition to the two I had grown up with (i.e., both my mother and my birth-father had remarried after they got divorced from each other). But that’s another story, with another set of photos ...
Meanwhile, my mother worked as a secretary in the Pentagon as the war wound down, and when my stepfather ended up in Washington toward the end of his tour of duty in the Navy, they met, and married, and moved to Denver to begin a new life … chapters of which you’ve been seeing in these Flickr albums during the last several weeks.
So the photos in this album are from my birth in Florida through the first year or so of my childhood in Washington — uploaded in reverse chronological order, starting in 1945. I haven’t written any details, because I have no conscious memory of what was happening at the time; and at this point, all of my parents, step-parents, and grandparents are gone. Yes, I do have five wonderful sisters, all of whom share various memories with me; but I’m the oldest of the brood, so I have no siblings with first-hand information about what I was doing for the first year or two of my life.
All I have are the photos that you see here. But they do tell a story, and that’s why I think it’s so important that you track down all of your own photos and preserve them somewhere for the generations who will follow after you.
Note the glimpse of the radiators on the right.
Early photo below.
I've no idea who to credit for this photo.
Apologies if somebody still holds the copyright.
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I'm sorry I wasn't around either. It would have been great to see them. They got to my store just after I had left and they came by my house when I was at the grocery. It would been great to see them as it's been a couple weeks now.
I'm actually believing that no one has ever even accidentally hit that in the past 50 years. Not even one of the Kennedys! Maybe Teddy Roosevelt was the last to knock into it.
Note the long feathers over the tail. It is going into breeding plumage.
I couldn't decide which to post.
Musical notes on the digital piano. My daughter getting ready for her recital....she plays the piano better than me.
Ricohflex VII, Ricoh Anastigmat 1:3.5 80mm, Kodak Pro160, Wide Open
... on time.
The view through the skylight 12 hours apart:
06.48 (left) and 18.52, 5th May 2016.
© Lise Utne
Ich wünsche euch allen wunderbare Festtage, ganz egal, wie ihr sie verbringt.
Hauptsache, ihr lasst es euch gutgehen. :)
Weihnachtskarten basteln und schreiben ist eine meiner liebsten Weihnachtstraditionen, in die ich jedes Jahr viel Zeit und Porto investiere.
Was liegt euch besonders am Herzen in dieser Zeit? Habt ihr klassische oder ganz ungewöhnliche persönliche Traditionen?
Erzählt mal.
Hasselblad 500C/M | Planar 80mm f/2.8 | Kodak Plus-X 125 | B + W ND110 | f/22 - 9' | Rodinal
Notes:
Dev.: Rodinal | 1+50 | 21°C | 12': 12 invs. 1st min. - 2 invs. per minute - 11 mins.
Stop: Glacial + Water - 3'
Fix: Pablo San's studio-made Hypo - 15'
Marzia Casilli nasce a Lecce nel 1989. Vive ad Ascoli Piceno, dove è Vicepresidente dell'Associazione Culturale ''Das Andere'', che promuove incontri con scrittori e dibattiti filosofico-letterari, con l'obbiettivo di risvegliare la coscienza sociale. E' laureanda in Psicologia e dal 2015 allieva della Scuola Holden di Torino. Nel 2010 pubblicava con Albatros una raccolta di poesie dal titolo ''Leggendo e scrivendo'' . Con il mare in tasca'' (Talos 2015 - collana Polis) è il suo primo romanzo.