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infrogmationThis batch is probably of little interest to anyone else. Unless you want to see the gratuitous monkey photo at the end; hey everyone likes monkeys.
Grandfather, Mother, Grandmother, Uncle. Although the photographer's prop reads "Galveston", the inscription on the back reads "Florida, 1941".
I like how this one makes my uncle look like he has a pair of Bugs Bunny teeth.
Grandmother, Grandfather, Grandmother's mother, Great-grandmother's older brother, and his wife (looking disturbingly like Peter Sellers in one of his clever disguises), 1950.
I slightly remember Great-Grandmother's older brother, as lived to be nearly 100. The family story has it that he had been pronounced dead as a youth during some 19th century epidemic. As it was during severe winter weather, his supposed corpse was laid out in the attic until weather would make burial possible; then a few days later someone noticed slight traces of breathing. He joked about his longevity being due to the fact that he got dying out of the way at a young age.
I also recall my Great-Grandmother. She was in good shape until she slipped and fell at age 88. At the hospital, the doctors asked her age, and she would only tell them "I'm of legal age."
Near Tangier, Morocco, September, 1965; my grandmother is second from left.
I should have warned about visible camel toe.
In pedicab in Penang, Malaysia, 1967.
And, as promised, a monkey (anyone recognize the species?), with added additional mini-monkey in tow at no extra charge. Singapore, 1967.
Grandfather, Mother, Grandmother, Uncle. Although the photographer's prop reads "Galveston", the inscription on the back reads "Florida, 1941".
I like how this one makes my uncle look like he has a pair of Bugs Bunny teeth.
Grandmother, Grandfather, Grandmother's mother, Great-grandmother's older brother, and his wife (looking disturbingly like Peter Sellers in one of his clever disguises), 1950.
I slightly remember Great-Grandmother's older brother, as lived to be nearly 100. The family story has it that he had been pronounced dead as a youth during some 19th century epidemic. As it was during severe winter weather, his supposed corpse was laid out in the attic until weather would make burial possible; then a few days later someone noticed slight traces of breathing. He joked about his longevity being due to the fact that he got dying out of the way at a young age.
I also recall my Great-Grandmother. She was in good shape until she slipped and fell at age 88. At the hospital, the doctors asked her age, and she would only tell them "I'm of legal age."
Near Tangier, Morocco, September, 1965; my grandmother is second from left.
I should have warned about visible camel toe.
In pedicab in Penang, Malaysia, 1967.
And, as promised, a monkey (anyone recognize the species?), with added additional mini-monkey in tow at no extra charge. Singapore, 1967.
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Date: 2005-06-28 11:07 am (UTC)Camels and monkeys and grandmothers, oh my
Date: 2005-06-28 03:46 pm (UTC)