Posted in Old Photos, People on Oct 24th, 2009 5 Comments »
My parents, Walter and Frances, sometime between 1948 and 1951, before I was born.
This is my submission to the fantastic weblog: My Parents Were Awesome.
My parents, Walter and Frances either just before I was born or just after (1951 plus or minus a few).
This is my runner up submission.
Posted in Old Photos, Photo Sites on Oct 21st, 2009 11 Comments »
My Parents Were Awesome
Fantastic collection of images of people’s parents, sent in by kids. What a great collection. I’m gonna get on it and find a great one of my folks.
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Posted in Events, Old Photos, Places on Aug 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
The Denver Post Captured Photoblog: Images of World War II Normandy Beach Invasion.
Incredible collection of historic images.
Posted in Events, Old Photos, People on Jul 16th, 2009 No Comments »
NY TimesReaders’ Moon Memories.
Readers submit photos taken in 1969 when the Apollo 11 mission happened. The images and stories are fantastic. Recommended reading. You can submit yours here.
Posted in Old Photos, People, Places on Jun 12th, 2009 No Comments »
Lens Culture has a wonderful slide show of old Polish glass negatives. These are portraits of various people who lived in Debica Poland during the 1920s and 1930s. The images are haunting: they are so well done that they come alive yet the people are long gone. Each person has a story yet in this [...]
Posted in Old Photos, People, Stories on Jun 15th, 2008 2 Comments »
New York City, 1952. Walter Richard Wanderman, Richard Samuel Wanderman. My father is about thirty seven here, I’m six months.
My father died in 2000, just before the tech bubble burst, George W. Bush stole the White House, and 9/11 happened. He was 84. Had he not died in 2000 any one of these events would [...]
Posted in Old Photos, People on Jun 8th, 2008 No Comments »
New York, NY, 1952. My mother is 37, I’m 1.
I was a premature, breech birth and when this was taken I’d just finished with a bout of meningitis. Six months later I got polio. My poor mother, no wonder she decided not to have any more kids.
Posted in Old Photos, People on Jun 8th, 2008 No Comments »
Coney Island, New York, around 1943. This was the shot my mother sent to all of her various boyfriends serving overseas during World War II. She didn’t know my father yet so he never got one of these.
Posted in Old Photos on Feb 1st, 2006 No Comments »
This picture was taken in New York. L-R: Ben Diliatsky, Gladys Dick, Rose Dick, Sadie (Dick) Diliatsky.
All of these people were alive when I was 16 and I met them. They’re all gone now.
The women in this picture are three of my grandfather’s four sisters (my mother’s aunts) and all three are to the left [...]
Posted in Old Photos, People on Jan 26th, 2006 No Comments »
This picture, taken at Mt. Zion Cemetery in Queens, New York in 1918, has much of my mother’s family in it. My mother is the smallest child on the right. Her maiden name is Dick. She is 90 now.
The old man with the beard is David Dick, my great grandfather and the husband of Leah, [...]
Posted in Old Photos, People on Jan 25th, 2006 4 Comments »
L-R: Frances (my mother), the actress Ingrid Bergman, unknown person, and Peg (my mother’s best friend), in New York in 1946. Peg and my mother were assistant editors for Movieland magazine.
My 90 year old mother still has the pin she’s wearing here but the hat is no more (thank god, this one is worse than [...]
Posted in Old Photos, People on Dec 15th, 2005 8 Comments »
L-R: Peg (my mother’s best friend), Frances (my mother), and the actress Dorothy Lamore at “21″ in New York in 1946. Peg and my mother were assistant editors for Movieland magazine.
My 90 year old mother still has the pin she’s wearing here but the hat is no more (thank god).
*I shot this with my 20D [...]
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