Sepia Saturday is a collection of blogs published with a prompt, an old photo that's posted for us to consider and perhaps be inspired to share some of our old photos .Incidentally others post about their ancestry research, which is definitely in the same historic category, or postcards saved with either a theme or notes on the back relating to someone's actual travels, (see, it's a wonderful coming together of blogs!)
Alas, and so forth, I seldom have my own photos to post, but have collected some from my favorite groups who post such photos on FB.
Of course you could also see them there...but I do like to present them as a group, no matter how they relate, or don't, to each other. (Yay split infinitives.)
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A rather elongated pair of bell-bottomed readers!
Today's quote:
...this is a great look back.
ReplyDeleteThe NY beach must have been interesting, with ladies still in long dresses, while someone must have had on bathing suits, such as they were...to swim!
DeleteI remember the iceman in the fifties or at least the earlier fifties. I tink both of my grandparents had ice boxes and not fridges. I am pretty certain of the grandfather that we lived with tunic the mid-fifties.
ReplyDeleteMy grandparents too, in Houston TX and early fifties I saw ice cart deliveries in another city as well.
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ReplyDeleteGreat collection of sepia images. I got goose bumps from the licking the ice image. Have a great weekend.
I think it probably wasn't cold enough for tongues to stick to it...having a nice sheen of melting water in the heat. But I have heard of licking a flag pole in freezing weather...that does give me the goose bumps!
DeleteAh bellbottoms. I still have a very elegant pair I made in the early 1970's. Don't know why I keep them as I will never be a size six again.
ReplyDeleteIt's Suzi/Smartcat BTW. Google is still being mean to me!🤭🤬
Hi Suzi...your's were a size 6? Mine were probably 8-10s! Loved adding patches all over them too! Don't have a single pair!
DeleteA lovely collection of sepia images.
ReplyDeleteThank you muchly!
DeleteThere much be platform shoes under those amazing bell bottoms.
ReplyDeleteGood point!
DeleteThe Galveston sea wall speaks volumes when you know what happened there fifteen years before.
ReplyDeleteYes, and all the houses had also been raised something like 6 feet higher than they had been (if they survived the 1900 storm).
DeleteMy favourite - the early selfie! :-)
ReplyDeleteIt's pretty amazing how early photographers thought of that!
DeleteMy favorite is also the early selfie! Of course they are all interesting.
ReplyDeleteA very nice summertime medley. I liked the contrast of the Brighton Beach life guard and the ladies in long skirts with umbrellas. I don't know how people, especially women and children, kept their shoes and clothes clean after spending a day at the beach dressed like that.
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