Link to my grandfather's picture. This is the whole set, for now: link. I think I'm gonna look for more now.
Oh, God. Oh, God. My hair. My hair! The government gave me bad hair!
Cordelia ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
Natter 61*
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Shir - Oct 01, 2008 1:14:12 am PDT #1584 of 10001
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Jesse - Oct 01, 2008 2:46:07 am PDT #1585 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
What a great picture, Shir.
Steph L. - Oct 01, 2008 3:47:08 am PDT #1586 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Shir, this picture is amazing, too, in a movie-star way: [link]
amych - Oct 01, 2008 3:52:26 am PDT #1587 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Fantastic set, Shir. Your Grandmother had an amazing look as a young thing.
Shir - Oct 01, 2008 3:54:43 am PDT #1588 of 10001
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
I started collecting pictures for this after understanding I have no idea what's going on in most of the pictures, and before most of my relatives in my grandparents' ages will pass away (my grandmother in the pictures died in 72'; my grandfather in 57', age 34; Mordechai sometime in the late 70s', I think. They all died young).
I'm looking for a certain picture now: it's my grandmother's family on the Vistula river's bank in Kraków, summer of 1939. I'm hoping to find it. It's so moving to be able to relate to those pictures, not to mention learning their historic value.
Jesse - Oct 01, 2008 4:03:05 am PDT #1589 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Wow, your grandmother is gorgeous, too.
I am so not in the mood today, I can't even tell you.
Sparky1 - Oct 01, 2008 4:10:25 am PDT #1590 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
it's my grandmother's family on the Vistula river's bank in Kraków, summer of 1939.
What a place to be in 1939, with the German invasion about to happen in September.
I'll be in Krakow next week, and thinking of your family Shir.
Theodosia - Oct 01, 2008 4:20:36 am PDT #1591 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
It's a grand gift to your descendents to be able to properly identify pictures and who was in them. Which reminds me that I have a boatload of old snapshots that I'd better sit my aunt and Mom down and make them identify... soon.
Kat - Oct 01, 2008 4:21:39 am PDT #1592 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Shir, your grandmother has amazing eyes (and I love the pictures).
We're on day 3 of fever. Time to call the doctor?
JZ - Oct 01, 2008 4:22:37 am PDT #1593 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Both your grandparents are very striking, Shir!
The picture of your grandmother probably in Greece is definitely Greece, almost definitely in front of the Acropolis in Athens. Which I'm pretty sure of because somewhere I have a picture of myself a little over 20 years ago standing in what looks like exactly the same spot. I recognized it instantly. Your grandmother looks much more glamourous than I did, though.