A Sunday Visit with the College Kid

I focus primarily on old photos on this blog, and photos from the 1970s don't seem old to me. When I ran across the two photos I post here, however, I digested a different sense of "old."

These images record a Sunday afternoon when my Parents visited me in my college dorm room. Both Mom and Dad were younger than I am now. The "digital" clock—a high school graduation gift from an old boyfriend—records the time and date. I'm wearing a kilt that I picked up at a second-hand store in Evanston, Illinois. The store stood on a street that ran between the Marshall Field's and the "L" tracks. 

I shared the room with two other women. The "dorm" was a converted apartment building that housed about thirty-six students. Our space was an old living room, and my area occupied the alcove overlooking the street. The alcove was a cold spot, but it felt as though I had my own room within the bigger room.

Evanston, Illinois, November 21, 1976. I can't make out which photos I tacked to the wall area between the windows.

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Evanston, Illinois, November 21, 1976. Had Mom been looking at one of my textbooks?