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  1. Texas Forever

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    #2 wax, Nov 14, 2006
    You come from good stock!

    While there is a slight upturn to the corners of their mouths, as opposed to the by-default-oh-so-serious looks on many a century-old picture, I wonder when folks started showing their teeth in pics? The girl reminds of Addie in Paper Moon.
     
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    #3 AntonyR, Nov 14, 2006
    whats amazing is the quality of the photos and the conditions


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    #4 walnut, Nov 14, 2006
    i'm thinking that part of the reason for the "oh so serious" look in lots of old pictures is because its easier to stand still with a straight face than it is to keep a smile. didn't pictures take a lot longer to take? like seconds instead of instantly? maybe smiling and the twitching there of always looked forced and terrible or blurry.

    just a thought.
     
  5. Texas Forever

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    #5 Texas Forever, Nov 14, 2006
    Here is as much of the story that I know about Granddad.

    His father was one of four brothers who left the coal mines in West Virginia or Virginia or where ever. Apparently, they didn't leave any forwarding addresses, and they never found any reason to go back.

    They ended up in Missouri where they were farmers. I believe that Granddad's father ran a store.

    Granddad's wife in these pictures is a Pennsylvania Dutch gal with the last name of Housewright. Sorry, I can't remember her first name. She died of cancer in the early 40s.

    Granddad did what everybody did back then. That is, he didn't have a "career." He wasn't into finding his special purpose in life. He just did whatever it took to survive. He was a farmer. He worked on the railroad. He owned two or three different stores in the Kansas City area. He ended in Stonewall, Colorado as a traveling salesman for the National Biscuit Company. If you are ever in Stonewall, you will see the corner store and cabins that he and my father built.

    Granddad ended up getting remarried very quickly after his wife died. Perhaps a bit too quickly for some, but we don't talk about this much any more. :)

    Granddad ended up dying of emphysema in South Texas in 1975.

    One of the ladies in these pictures is his sister Ann. She ended up, somehow, getting a masters degree from the University of Chicago. She was working for McDonald Douglas when she got tapped to run the Japanese Internment program during WWII. She ended up doing a "Howard Hughes" in Pasadena California. She died in 1987.

    Long ways from the coal mines.

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