A photograph tells a story. It shows where we called home, it shows the decade that we claim for our childhood and often, it shows much more. The above picture is one of thousands that have been shared on Taylor Jones' Dear Photograph. Digital nostalgia at it's best, it will make you smile, it may even make you shed a tear, but the most important thing that it does is make you want to go through all those old pictures and relive the moments that shaped our past.
Spradlin's Market up on Commercial Street where Mom and I would walk to on warm summer days to buy fresh produce ~
Stinger Sam's Automotive at the corner of Lyon and Commerical where Daddy would go on Saturdays to pick up oil or sparkplugs~
Past Katz City where we'd shop on Friday nights and I'd spend my 50
cents allowance for a bag of candy~
And Burge Hospital where I was born in 1952~
We'd park along the street in front of the Shrine Mosque, put money in the meter and for the next two hours I'd watch beautiful trapeze artists fly through the air, brave lion tamers and through the eyes of a child I dreamed of where my life would take me. Go over to Dear Photograph and go through those wonderful old pictures...
I love this post! I know exactly what you mean..our old pictures take us back to that very day and enable us to be child again and have our parents back with us....even if it is just a memory now. Aren't we lucky to have had them! So enjoyed this Joycee!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Betsy, we are the keepers of the memories so it's really important that we share with our kids the details of old pictures. I have so many of Mom's and Grandma's that I'm unsure who is in the picture.
DeleteOld photographs have such power. They take us back, right into the moment. So much of our landscape changes at incredible speed, but an old photo puts on the brakes and lets us sit for a moment in our own past.
ReplyDeleteThis is so true! I can go back in our really old pictures, the ones that were my Grandparents and return to those places since we still have the farm. I want to do that with some of these pictures before it's too late.
DeleteYou are very fortunate to have old photos. I have some, but not nearly enough. That end car in the Katz photo, reminds me of my grandfather's car.
ReplyDeleteI've been an avid photographer all my adult life and then I inherited all the family pictures going back to the 1860's so I am extremely lucky. My grandmother and mom were also keen on taking pictures, there was never a family gathering without someone taking pictures!
DeleteI really wish I had some photos of my childhood but I have only a treasured few. You are fortunate, Joy!...:)JP
ReplyDeleteI've been very lucky that my Mom and Grandmother took such good care of the most valuable treasures our family has, the pictures of our past.
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