These photos really moved me for some reason. They were all taken shortly before I was born in 1944. I can’t stop looking at them.
These photos really moved me for some reason. They were all taken shortly before I was born in 1944. I can’t stop looking at them.
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Those are pretty cool pictures. Obamanomics seems to be pulling us back to the level of prosperity of the Depression and World War II America.
Poignant Tom. I see why they move you. One of the earlier ones with folks at a corner in Massachusetts where there's news items handwritten in the window, the man in front in the brown overcoat and fedora looks exactly like my father and uncles. My irish immigrant grandfather had a brother and sister up in Mass. because they landed in Boston instead of Ellis Island like he did. Could very well be a Lally that man in the photo, which only made it more moving for me.
Lal, I checked the guy out and he does look like a Lally. That's pretty cool. I'm with you, what does it hurt to believe he was your kin?
I should have mentioned it in my initial post but picture #27 is the road to Emmett, Idaho. My grandpa was a preacher and had a church in Emmett at one time. He and my grandma are buried in the Emmett cemetery. I'll bet my folks and I were on that road a few years after the photo was taken.
I think that's why we're so moved by these kinds of photos. They evoke some of our earliest memories of family and home, familiarity and happy or at least comforting feelings (they say we generally forget the bad parts mostly). We know the world was troubled, but our lives were a lot simpler and so much easier to manage then. Mostly it was just about the basics, food, shelter and family and friends.
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