The newer photos have come home. We sent them from Chicago to Kaunas, and now another relative in Kaunas has sent them back to the United States. What's interesting about the photos is not the images. Instead, it's what my Dad and Grandmother wrote on the backs of the them.
I'll add a "new batch" label to these photos as I post them.
Suburban Chicago, September 1969. My paternal Grandmother, Tatjana, chose this photo (instead of these or this one) to illustrate her first interactions with our then-new dog, Gigi.
UPDATE: In my rush to write about the "new batch" photos, I omitted the remarks Tatjana wrote on the back of this photo. Ha ha. She addressed my Kaunas Cousin: "This is for you! Grandma Tanja looks through the back door while Gi-Gi stands on her hind legs."
4 comments:
You are very lucky so many of your family's photos have survived.
A lot of ours never survived a couple of moves.
Glad you can share them; some are quite fascinating.
Thanks, edutcher. I recently winced when a family member reported that some photos had been discarded.
I'm scanning as fast as I can.
Don't let this stuff get lost.
This is really a very valuable document about how life looked back when we were kids.
Without something like this, all people would have is old TV sitcoms to go by and we both know there was a lot more to it.
I also realized last night that I left out the back-of-the-photo remarks for this image. I'll update it later today.
Post a Comment