Old Photos
Oct 22, 2021 21:18:48 #
I've had several of my dad's photo albums since he died in 1999. Yesterday I started culling the photos as there were quite a few that my sister & I had no interest in keeping. My dad was instrumental in establishing credit departments for B. F. Goodrich tire dealers in the northeast. The trucking industry was just getting started in the south. They were sent to Greensboro, NC by B. F. Goodrich to manage the facility. WWII came along, my dad joined the Navy, & mom moved back to Ohio for the duration. They liked NC well enough they moved back to NC after the war settling in Winston-Salem. These 3 are of the truck stop my folks ran just prior to WWII. They were taken in 1940 according to the information on the back.
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Oct 22, 2021 23:03:25 #
Nice. All of those shots I didn't take over the years because I had no idea how important the memories would be
Oct 22, 2021 23:07:57 #
Really nicely done, and great choices as “period pieces”. Kinda reminds ms of sights seen from the back seat of my dad’s old 1936 Buick, traveling to Louisiana from Kentucky, to spend summers on Grandpa’s farm.
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Oct 23, 2021 13:12:46 #
Alafoto
Loc: Montgomery, AL
My mother was 1/2 Creek Indian and attended one of those B.I.A. boarding schools intended to civilize all the heathen savages. I now have a number of pictures of scenes somewhere in Oklahoma that I don't recognize, people I never met and no one left to identify them. If your old photos mean anything at all to anyone, and you are fortunate enough to still have your mom, dad or Uncle Louie still with you, get one of them to tell you what those photos are about. One day it will very likely matter to someone.
Oct 23, 2021 18:52:22 #
Alafoto wrote:
My mother was 1/2 Creek Indian and attended one of... (show quote)
Unfortunately my sister, some of our 1st cousins, and I are now the oldest surviving generation on both sides of our family. I'm 1 of the youngest at 74. My dad spent several years putting together his memoirs which included a fairly complete family history completing it a couple years before he passed away. The photos we have list the names/dates/locations on the back. A lot of them were included his memoirs.
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Oct 24, 2021 00:32:11 #
Tdearing
Loc: Rockport, TX
nicksr1125 wrote:
I've had several of my dad's photo albums since he... (show quote)
I really enjoyed the photos, thank you for sharing them.
Oct 24, 2021 03:08:41 #
nicksr1125 wrote:
I've had several of my dad's photo albums since he... (show quote)
These are good Nick. I love OLD photos and the history in them.
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