Sunday, January 16, 2011

Uncle Ray's Photographs

Grandma wrote on the back of this photograph: “Ray's first photo - 1923”. Ray was my Grandma's only sibling and younger brother. While showing me this photograph, I could see Grandma remembering that day and time with her new husband. I believe the location for this picture is one of the parks in Cedarburg. She and Uncle Ray were raised in Cedarburg and then moved to Milwaukee with my Grandpa after they married. When My Grandpa and Uncle Ray didn't work, they would spend a lot of time in Cedarburg on the weekends, because Grandma and Grand Uncle Ray still had family there.


I think this second photograph was taken at my Great Grandmother's home.
This photograph was, also taken by Uncle Ray and, dated 1923, but Grandma had choose not to show it to me when we were going through the box of pictures. After finding it recently in one of the many boxes of photos, I'm curious as to why she choose not to share it. It obviously meant a lot to her because it is the only picture I've found that was laminated. Could it just have been her modesty of showing a racy photo of her and my Grandpa? I know from the dates of these two pictures that my uncle had taken photographs of the newlyweds. Those were different times then ours, public signs of affection amongst proper young people just didn't take place. Was my Grandma too embarrassed to show her granddaughter a photograph of her and my Grandpa kissing or or just an over site on her part? Those are questions I would have liked to ask her.

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