Week 8 (February 18-24): Family Photo

Family Photo

So.  I do happen to have some great family photos-  I'll start with my direct family-  because the outfits have so much to say: 

I'm not sure of the year on the above photo.  MB looks to be about 3-  that would make it 1964 or so.

Clearly later than the previous photo.  Patty, with the lovely chip bowl on her heard.  Mom wearing the standard Easter CAKE on her head... and I have the infamous veiled hat that I BEGGED Aunt Lise to buy for me and then proceeded to get slapped in church for pulling the veil down over my eyes, pretending to be some mysterious widow.  (True story).

Another FAMOUS family photo-  Unfortunately, I can only identify ONE man and ONE woman in the photo-  this, of course, lead to a very funny story!

While in college (in 1977) we hung all sorts of crazy things on the walls in our off-campus house-  

It was a rental with 7 girls living upstairs and 6 guys living downstairs.  We hung anything and everything, including a duck stolen off someone's yard - and then later turned into a phone - but I digress ...  drawings that we created, newspaper articles that related to nothing at all... college event flyers  AND THIS PHOTO.  Someone found it behind the couch and so it was stapled right onto the wall... and we called them our house grandparents.  Of course, NO ONE had a clue who these mystery people were.

One day when my sister came to visit, she was admiring the wall art and exclaimed, "Why is this picture of Uncle Joe and Aunt Katherine hanging on your wall?"  

WHAT??

I took a closer look.. and what do you know???  The man on the left is Uncle Joe (a cigar-smoking man married to my Grandfather's sister.. and that is honestly ALL I can say about him) and Aunt Katherine is on the far right.   It hung on the wall for two years- and we made fun of these "unknown" people all that time... come to find out -  they were MY relatives!  It still gives me a chuckle.