Sepia Saturday challenges bloggers to share family
history through old photographs.
The first Sepia Saturday prompt of the new year inspires
any number of responses: buses, dams,
men in white coats. However, it is the
open doors of the tour bus that reminded me of a photo that captures a very
sweet moment between brother and sister.
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| Mary Eleanor Davis and Orvin Davis, Jr. 1929 Shenandoah, Virginia |
My mother’s older brother is propping her up to look out the car window (offering an interesting look at the inside of the car, by the way). Momma was likely less than a year old, so the year was 1929. When she was born that January 6th, her brother looked at her and declared she was “cuter than a pup.”
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| Mary Eleanor Davis on the left |
She was still cuter than a pup many years later when she
stepped out of a car while a student at Shenandoah College
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just moments after her friend got caught making an
adjustment.
The bus to Sepia Saturday is leaving, so hop on – my friends
will be ready to open the door for you.
©
2014, Wendy Mathias. All rights reserved.
Great photos Wendy! How cute that first one is of your mom and her older brother. And, as you pointed out, a very interesting look inside that classic car. Is that a front seat folded forward that I see?
ReplyDeleteHi Jana, I think it is the front seat folded forward. The floor looks rather dangerous though, don't you think?
DeleteThere is just no privacy when a camera is around! That poor woman's momentary adjustment is now being kept in perpetuity...perhaps it is a good thing that we don't even know her name...
ReplyDeleteYour mom had a sweet big brother!
Yes, no privacy at all. I have known people to change clothes behind an opened car door -- glad there were no cameras!
DeleteGreat photos! The tour bus on the Sepia Saturday ticket reminds me of he grand touring cars that once toured folks around Glacier National Park. There is still one on display...how stunning to tour the Highway to the Sun in one of those cool touring cars.
ReplyDeleteHave you figured out what is behind the front seat of the car with your mom and uncle?
Happy Saturday!
Marey, I think it's the seat itself. The striped material throws me off -- looks like a slipcover, not at all what I expected of early auto upholstery.
DeleteOh yes, very much cuter than a pup! I really like that second photo of her grown up, and the automobiles in the photo, are very fascinating. You always have the best family photos to share, it simple inspires me!
ReplyDeleteOh Karen, you're too much! Thank-you though.
DeleteGreat photos with an interesting theme: open car doors. Imaginatively clever. I like the friend's hairstyle in the second picture. She looked very chic. Just goes to show though - however elegant we may appear in one photo, that can quickly change! :->
ReplyDeleteYes, the friend looks rather Hollywood-ish. Love their shoes.
DeleteSometimes a photographer intrudes upon a moment that is not intended to become public, but does anyway. Love the first photo!
ReplyDeleteMy mother seems to be giving the photographer the evil eye.
DeleteI think what we see through the door is the front seat upturned to allow access to the back as this car has only two doors. The seat is hinged on the front bottom edge. The next two photos would be ordinary cellphone snaps in today's college world. Now they can become viral on the sepia web!
ReplyDeleteMike, I agree - looks like the seat was folded forward. But that hinge mechanism looks like trouble!
DeleteShort and sweet !
ReplyDeleteYep -- sometimes there just isn't anything to say but "here's a picture ...."
DeleteThe lady doing the adjustment would have preferred to see herself in the first photo, I'm sure.
ReplyDeleteI bet!
DeleteThe more i see of these old car photos the more I miss them !
ReplyDeleteI'm glad for auto museums and antique car clubs.
Delete‘Cuter than a pup’ is high praise indeed from a brother. That’s a lovely photo to have.
ReplyDeleteThat IS high praise -- my uncle always had a dog for as long as I knew him.
DeleteThose photos are classic! (I'd say as cute as a pup! ;) )
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by.
DeleteIndeed, indeed, cuter than a pup! Great, sweet photos.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Joan.
DeleteHow cute those photos are! :)
ReplyDeleteThank-you.
Deletethe photo of your mother and brother in the car is adorable!
ReplyDeleteI like that one too.
DeleteWhat apt photographs for this week's prompt and the first one in particular is so lovely.
ReplyDeleteI like that photo too because of the little baby bonnet. So cute.
DeleteThanks, Jackie.
ReplyDeleteAll old photos are full of information, but old photos which have not been carefully psed and framed such as these, always seem to be overflowing with information . The inconsequential of 50 years ago is the fascinating of today. Happy New Year Wendy.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what people will make of "selfies" 50 years from now.
DeleteAwww, that is so nice. Real brotherly love. And she was definitely cuter than a pup!
ReplyDeleteYes, they were sweet.
DeleteAppropriate timing since today was your mother's birthday. Great photos!
ReplyDeleteThanks for noticing the birthday connection!
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