Old photo, one of my favorites of life with lizzy

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erich Bruckner, Vancouver, WA on Friday, September 07, 2012 - 02:11 am:

http://www.shorpy.com/node/3435?size=_original#caption


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Derek Kiefer - Mantorville, MN on Friday, September 07, 2012 - 08:15 am:

They're all sitting there pondering what life would have been like 100 years earlier when people didn't have it so easy. ;)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Henry Petrino in Modesto, CA on Friday, September 07, 2012 - 10:08 am:

I think the lady in the rocker is talking on her cell phone. :-)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erich Bruckner, Vancouver, WA on Friday, September 07, 2012 - 10:13 am:

In the foreground, is it a motion blurred kid bathing in a bucket?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dennis Seth - Ohio on Friday, September 07, 2012 - 11:27 am:

Another great photo of yester year.
I think what you see Erich is a concrete planter with a flower in it. A dog is running down the side porch steps. Just like we do today they sit and wait for the cable man to come install the cable.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Henry Petrino in Modesto, CA on Friday, September 07, 2012 - 11:33 am:

The caption says that it's a "Summer residence". Notice that all the windows that can be seen are wide open, the 1922 version of central air conditioning.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Rob Heyen - Nebraska on Friday, September 07, 2012 - 11:36 am:


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erich Bruckner, Vancouver, WA on Friday, September 07, 2012 - 06:42 pm:

Looks like several families have come from different places. Some by T. Some by horse.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Terry Horlick in Penn Valley, CA on Friday, September 07, 2012 - 07:09 pm:

"... when people didn't have it so easy"

The summer residence of a senator, and I see at least four automobiles there, six adults, two children, one dog, one horse with buggy.

I think the only ones who didn't have it so easy are busy in the kitchen, barn or cutting grass in the back 40. The rocking chairs look well used.

That is a rather large dog, maybe a St. Bernard, the cars are all about the same era, no brassys. These folks look like they could afford to keep their cars all of recent manufacture!

Life back then was hard, but not for everybody! Neat photo too bad it is very badly damaged with mold, that makes it harder to make out details!



The dog is on the right behind the front car.

TH


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erich Bruckner, Vancouver, WA on Friday, September 07, 2012 - 07:39 pm:

Isn't that a brass T behind that dog and T, door open, pointing away from us?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erich Bruckner, Vancouver, WA on Saturday, September 08, 2012 - 12:29 am:

Also, what is that on the ground next to the man in the rocking chair?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Terry Horlick in Penn Valley, CA on Saturday, September 08, 2012 - 12:57 am:

Hat.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erich Bruckner, Vancouver, WA on Saturday, September 08, 2012 - 01:12 am:

Terry, good eye. I kept wanting to make it into a pot with lid or such.

I see the lady next to him is not on her cell phone either.

Must say, I sure like rocking chairs. I never tried one out in the front grass. Must have been to stuffy in the house.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dan Woolf on Saturday, September 08, 2012 - 08:06 am:

Yes, Erich, that looks like a brass T in the background with a later style, curved right front fender.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Norman T. Kling on Saturday, September 08, 2012 - 08:51 am:

Sitting with the hand to the chin was a popular pose in those days. Here's one of some of my family members.
Norm


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dennis Hoshield on Saturday, September 08, 2012 - 09:53 am:

I think the blurr in the front is a flower that's out of focal range for the camera .. in front of a bird bath.

Love these old photos. Wish we had more of my families ...(parents, and grand parents).


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By R.V. Anderson on Saturday, September 08, 2012 - 10:06 am:

Here's one. My granddad, 1926.


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