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They're all sitting there pondering what life would have been like 100 years earlier when people didn't have it so easy. ;)
I think the lady in the rocker is talking on her cell phone.
In the foreground, is it a motion blurred kid bathing in a bucket?
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.
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.
Looks like several families have come from different places. Some by T. Some by horse.
"... 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
Isn't that a brass T behind that dog and T, door open, pointing away from us?
Also, what is that on the ground next to the man in the rocking chair?
Hat.
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.
Yes, Erich, that looks like a brass T in the background with a later style, curved right front fender.
Sitting with the hand to the chin was a popular pose in those days. Here's one of some of my family members.
Norm
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).
Here's one. My granddad, 1926.