From years back - people and places
The scans
The scan below starts top left with myself around 2 for my second Christmas in Dallas. Note the war time toys without any metal things. 1944.
Top left: Tom, a former boyfriend horsing around, (after my divorce.)
Bottom left: Group at a retreat, Seeds of Universal Light, I'm in back row with my chin in the air and bangs, near Tallahassee FL
The house on the right was built by my grandfather in Galveston TX...two views. My father was born there in 1914, and my sister took those photos around 1972. Not sure if it's still standing.
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"The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it. Almost always it seemed to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma and bigotry, superstition, exploitation and the preservation of vested interests."
-Jawaharlal Nehru, freedom fighter and the first Prime Minister of India (14 Nov 1889-1964)
...a fun look back!
ReplyDeleteIt's a brief glimpse into a chapter of my life, the 60s into the 70s.
DeleteLovely remembetings. I understand very well...
ReplyDelete...greetings by Heidrun
In too much of a hurry I would scan a bunch of photos together, intending to cut and paste them into individual ones later. Never got around to it with most of these. Hey, you break up with a boy friend, why keep his photo? Only if it's silly enough.
DeleteGreat memories, photos and look back.
ReplyDeleteHappy Friday! Have a great day and a happy weekend!
Hi, and I hope your Friday is happy too!
DeleteAh, cars without AC. Our first AC may have been our 92 Corolla. Not sure, but I do remember some hot trips in our earlier days of marriage.
ReplyDeleteI was still thinking (or maybe not thinking much at all) like a Yankee when I next purchased a camper van without AC also. But I drove it all over the country, including camping all summer many times...over 12 years of owning it. Must have been a bit more hardy those days.
DeleteLooking at old photos of my family makes me sad. Videos are worse. I guess I mourn the passing of time, how quickly it's gone. How little I understood about that, even as everyone told me. And although I love and adore my grown children and my getting-grown grandchildren, I have to admit I miss those beautiful babies.
ReplyDeleteI lived in a 10 by 50 foot trailer once and it had red shag carpeting. Even then it was hysterical.
Oh I remember those red shag carpeting places. Our "mobile home" was at least a 12 foot wide, and then had the sunken bedroom and living room...which of course I would hate these days. But jumping up and down a step got easy after a few weeks. I seldom look at old videos because they were so awful. It's just send them to the recycle bin!
DeleteIt's fun looking back at old photos, not so fun actually having the labour of scanning them - but worthwhile if we can be motivated to do it.
ReplyDeleteMy project these days, when I'm not doing what I'm supposed to be doing to get ready for a possible move across the country...is to shuffle the old photos on the external hard drive. I actually learned how to copy some of them into the iCloud, so they'd have a double chance of survival. This hard drive setup is pretty old...probably 25-30 years or so.
DeleteNehru's thoughts on organized religion are all too true and are being played out here in the USA today.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that he had that opinion on organized religions, until reading that quote. And we certainly are seeing the worst of it these days.
DeleteLove your photos. Thye really do bring back memories, don't they!
ReplyDeleteThe review of old photos does hit a certain spot in my heart.
DeleteTracking one's life through pictures revitalizes memories - some wonderful, some not, some funny, some sad, some forgotten, but it definitely brings your life into focus. :)
ReplyDeleteAnd yes indeed, these are just seconds of a lifetime, captured on film (back then!)
DeleteLooking back is always a pleasure and also a nice marker of time.
ReplyDeleteHaving attained elderhood, I'm glad to have so many decades of photos to scan and consider.
DeleteI love the wooden toys. So many great memories. Thanks for sharing.
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Oh boy, that orange shag carpet! We bought a house in the early 1980s that had orange & yellow shag carpeting in the living room & down the hallway. Oh ugh. As soon as we could afford it, we had the whole house done in a lovely medium tan color - wall to wall all the way. Looked wonderful. Wall-to-wall carpeting is now kind of going out of style which I think is too bad. Individual carpets can be very attractive, but then you have to dust all around them. :-/
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