Old pictures

[Buster]

My mother is visiting and she brought a picture of her dad at the barber shop he worked at . He’s on the right. Story goes that he was finishing basic and the war ended. So the GI bill paid for him to become a barber. He was a kind man and I have fond memories of him.

Any other old pictures of granddads?

 

[Legion]

This is my paternal and maternal grandparents with my parents, during WW2, or maybe just before the grandfathers left to serve. They were probably a lot younger than I am now. People aged faster back in those days.

 

[musicman1951]

This is a four generation shot. I'm the one with the beard, taken around 1980.

 

[HoosierTrooper]

A four generation short as well, I’m the baby. Taken sometime in 1958 I believe because my great grandfather, seated, died in April 1959 and I was born in 1956.

 

[Buster]

Wow , great pictures fellas.

 

[Legion]

I don’t have too many old pictures of the grandparents, but I did find this while I was looking.

A portrait postcard my grandmother sent to her aunty in 1911. How nice is the handwriting for a little kid?

Edit: Doing the math, she could only have been six or seven in 1911, so an adult must have written that for her, right? Even in the days of getting beaten for poor penmanship, a seven year old couldn't write like that.

 

[Doc4]

an adult must have written that for her, right? Even in the days of getting beaten for poor penmanship, a seven year old couldn't write like that.

My suspicion is she did "yours Camille" on the photo side, and an adult did the writing on the other side ... a noticeable difference between the two.

 

[Space_Cadet]

My great grandad.

 

[ShaverAZ]

My Dad's Dad; Grandpa was a flight Instructor in San Antonio. i have his Colt 1911 and pocket watch.. Grandma was an RN at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

Great Grand Dad's (left) iron Foundry Machine Shop. Note the light bulb ...

 

[Mr5x5]

You are blessed. I had some of these but never got them backed up and lost them two weeks ago in the flood here in Eastern KY.

 

[ShaverAZ]

My suspicion is she did "yours Camille" on the photo side, and an adult did the writing on the other side ... a noticeable difference between the two.

Maybe not. Look at the High School graduation requirements of 100 years ago. You'll discover that kids back then were more capable and accomplished (smarter) than they are today. Penmanship, even back in the 1920's, was valued and encouraged.

 

[Legion]

Maybe not. Look at the High School graduation requirements of 100 years ago. You'll discover that kids back then were more capable and accomplished (smarter) than they are today. Penmanship, even back in the 1920's, was valued and encouraged.

Possibly. Hard to say for sure, but her son (my father) had excellent handwriting, so maybe. I don't think I have any later examples of her writing to compare.