Posted in My mother, 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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in My mother, 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 [...]
Posted in My mother, 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 [...]
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