While Sepians are remembering listening to portable radios...I'll share some other old photos that are hanging out in my SS folder!
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With all the cold and snow the US has been having (and Canada, and Scotland, and and) this shot of Fifth Avenue is appropriate, by Alfred Steiglitz, 1905
Daughter of white tobacco sharecropper at country store in Person County, North Carolina, circa 1939.
Ray Hicks and family in Beech Mountain, NC. Ray Hicks was a storyteller known for his “Jack Tales”.
And going back south in the US, these pine forests provided turpentine, 1903
They probably never had snow to worry about!
Ray Hicks and family in Beech Mountain, NC. Ray Hicks was a storyteller known for his “Jack Tales”.
Come over and share your sepia photos at Sepia Saturday, it's easy!
Today's quote:
apricity: the warmth of the sun on a winter’s day
Cool mural of Roberta Flack. I love the photo of the man on the porch! Have a great weekend.
ReplyDeleteThank you. I like that mural to see when driving around town.
DeleteI remember my friend get a transistor radio. I am not really the jealous type, but . . .
ReplyDeleteI had friends with portable radios, even before transistor ones came along. But I later did catch up and had a Walkman.
Delete...thanks for the reminder about Roberta Flack.
ReplyDeleteI did like both of her songs. She may have recorded more, but these were hits.
DeleteAren't these a moment in history... Wow.
ReplyDeleteSome great old photographs here! My favorite is the last one and it blends right in with the music theme. It looks like Ray is getting ready to do a little 'soft shoe' number, or maybe a jig? :)
ReplyDeleteGreat photos and they all tell a story. Susan
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing these wonderful photos. In my collection of musical photos, I have a category labeled "porch bands" as it was both a perfect place to play musical instruments and take a group photo too! And your beautiful orchid looks as if it can't wait for more sunshine.
ReplyDeleteThe Roberta Flack mural is amazing. I had no idea she was from Black Mountain. Loved the other photos, although I held my breath at the bark-stripped pines, which produced turpentine. Some of my ancestors worked in leather tanning, which decimated NY and PA forests through the use of tanbark -- similarly stripping trees, then moving on to the next forest. Thank goodness we have learned about ecology and this not happen a much anymore.
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