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18 July 2008
Photo Friday: Things Forgotten Suggested by crush-onastick.
My grandfather (my father's father) came home from WWII and then, within a few years, died from the effects of injuries he had sustained in the war. Or so I think--that's the best my dad was ever able to piece together from relatives other than his mother. My grandmother, in the 30-some-odd years I knew her, never once mentioned my grandfather's name, or said to her children "your father [this or that]", or said "my husband". She stopped calling my Dad "junior" or his actual name (he was, obviously, named for his dad) and stuck with a nickname. In short, she never forgave her husband for surviving the war and then dying and would not remember him out loud. When my grandmother herself died, a few years ago, my sister found their wedding certificate wedged between the cardboard in a framed picture of my father's high school graduation. My mom found her wedding dress balled up in an old pillowcase at the bottom of a closet. Someone unearthed these photos, of a roadtrip my grandparents took before the war.
This was tucked into a forgotten corner of Turner Hall in Milwaukee, which they were working on restoring. I've been told that the restoration has been completed, and of course, none of these exist anymore.
A Foster's Freeze franchise was my family's business when I was a kid. A poor stepsister of Dairy Queen. You do not see many of them anymore. I ran into this guy in Hawaii and had to take his picture.
photo by splunge
photo by TheophileEscargot
photo by Kronos_to_Earth
photo by ethylene
