I'm posting family photographs from my collection on Wednesdays, but they won't be wordless Wednesday posts like others do - I simply am incapable of having a wordless post.
Here is a photograph from the Carringer family collection handed down by my mother in the 1988 to 2002 time period:
This is probably one of the strangest photographs in my family collection. The person on the left is my granfather, Lyle L. Carringer (1891-1976) dressed as a woman, and the person on the right is my grandmother, Emily K. Auble (1899-1977), dressed as a male. The setting is inside a house on a couch or sofa, probably either the Carringer home or the Auble home, in about 1918, either prior to their marriage or soon after their marriage on 19 June 1918.
I wonder why they dressed this way for this picture? Were going to a social event, a costume party or a Hallowe'en dance?
I always think of my grandparents as "old people" because that's the way I knew them. But they were young once, and had fun in their lives, and occasionally those times were documented for posterity. Thank goodness! I think Lyle made a pretty ugly chick, and Emily was a good-looking guy!
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2 comments:
What a really neat picture to have! :)
You're completely right, when you think about your grandparents, you think of them as you know them.
That is hilarious!! What I would give to have a picture of my grandparents doing something crazy. :)
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