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Bozoette wants to see our old-timey family pictures, so here are mine:
1953, so I am the wee one. My sister was about five here; her daughter (Wonderful Niece) looked exactly like this throughout her childhood. How do you like my mother's glasses? And earrings?
1955, sitting on my grandmother's couch. They took a lot of pictures that day, and all of them have that line across the lower left. Could be that at this point my father was developing the pictures himself, which he did for a while in the fifties. The dress my sister is wearing was handmade for her by an elderly family friend, cranberry-colored velvet, with a white eyelet embroidery apron. Each of us in turn wore it until we could barely squeeze into it; my mother had to reinforce the seams all the time until she finally took it away from me because I was nearly nine years old and Hulking out of it.
Love these old photos! And you know what? You look SO much like your mom in the bottom photo.
ReplyDeleteI have a dress my mom had when she was a kid that I put Gracie in when she was about two. I need to see if ME can get into it and take a photo. That sort of thing means a lot to me. There isn't much continuity to my life, unless I make it myself.