I had to share

[sid]

I've spent a good portion of my day going through photographs, and this one I have to share.

My paternal grandparents on their wedding day in 1923:




Isn't Grandma beautiful? She's 21 years old, and Grandpa is 25. I tend to forget about how short Grandpa was, but Grandma was under 5 feet tall on her best day. At the age of 7 I could fit perfectly into her shoes. But then I had big feet, because I was destined to reach 5'10"!

They were together for over 70 years, and Grandpa passed away just eight years ago, a few weeks after his 103rd birthday.

On a side note, this picture was taken just 2 years after the Jack/Daniel 1921 AU I'm still not writing.

ETA: 70th Anniversary photo



They learned how to smile. :-)

Comments

[synecdochic]

ohhhh, how beautiful. and no matter the formality of the pose, you still get the sense that there's a powerful love there.

[sid]

It's very much a "we're facing the future together" look, isn't it? Strong and committed.

[zats_clear]

that is gorgeous! I have similar photos of my grandparents and gawd gramma was a classy lookin' dame! (she was the one with the pig on a leash!)

[sid]

I have one of Grandma as a child with her arm around a sheep, if that counts? :-D

[discodiva76]

Beautiful shot!....I have a few that I need to sort through.....stuff from mine and Jim's side of the family and from my grandad who also died almost at 103 (two months away from it)...they made 'em strong in those days - his mother also lived till 97!...


Sadly so many of my family has passed away now, my oldest and closest family member is my dad's sister who is the one living over here in Canada....I can't wait to see her on Thursday....hopefully she'll have more family tales of long ago to tell to me!...


{{{{{Hugs}}}}}} and thanks for those precious pictorial memories....


Deeds xx

[sid]

Glad you liked the picture! Dad had some cousins who live less than 2 hours from here. I'm definitely going to make plans to go visit them and take all the family photos along - they're in quite a few of them, from toddlers right through senior citizens!

[jdjunkie]

Oh, that is so beautiful. Pics from that era have such an indefinable, special quality.
You're so lucky to have that shot. :-)

[sid]

Yes, I simply love it. Especially the hat! :-)

(The pile of dirty dishes has disappeared - now to break down some cardboard boxes....)

[archersangel]

very nice. thanks for sharing. i have a similar one of my paternal grand parents circa 1920

[sid]

It's so very cool to get a glimpse into the past of people we know and love. I've found some pics of my Mom as a teenager, and with the sailor she was engaged to before she met my father. Weird to look at those and think "what if?"!

[stultiloquentia]

thesartorialist_feed has been showing a series of reader-submitted vintage photos, and at first I mistook this for one. That hat! Thank you for sharing.

[sid]

I have never seen a hat like it, and I ADORE IT TOTALLY! :-)

[eremc]

This is beautiful! Her expression is amazing. I want to ask her what she is thinking!

eremc

[sid]

A question for the ages. :-)

[starglyph]

I love looking at old family photographs. With some of them, it seems I notice something different about them each time.

This one's gorgeous. And 70 years together! They don't make people like that anymore.

Not-yay for the not-written AU!

[sid]

Today I found a Women's Home Companion from 1922, and picked up a few more details for the AU-I'm-not-writing.

I've scanned a 70th anniversary photo. I need to post it, yes? Yes. :-)

[perfica]

They made a very handsome couple, young and old :-)

[sid]

I agree. :-)

[(Anonymous)]

I love the anniversary photo. It's amazing to think of anyone being together for that long. :)

-Nell

[sid]

You have to start young and live a really long time and pick the right partner!

Totally amazing.

[(Anonymous)]

It's lovely to see they still look so happy together after 70 years. :)
Monkey

[sid]

Isn't it great? :-)

[paian]

Both of these are just beautiful. Thank you for sharing them!

[sid]

I'm glad you enjoyed them. :-)

[scrollgirl]

I just popped over here and wanted to say, wow, what a gorgeous couple. *g* Also, 70 years together is a true gift. And 103, wow!

[sid]

Those numbers are ridiculous, aren't they? Wow, indeed. :-)

[msbeata.livejournal.com]

Wow! 103, that's amazing. And your Grandma was 91? That's impressive too.

She is beautiful. Thanks for sharing them in LJland.

[sid]

*digs out pertinent document* Grandma was 94, actually. She'd had a bad heart for years and years and years, not to mention having had both breasts removed due to cancer. She was quite the survivor!

[magnavox-23.livejournal.com]

What a gorgeous photo! Thankyou for sharing their story. :)

[sid]

I may have to dig out the photo taken for their 70th anniversary for a bookend to this one. :-)

[lunachickk.livejournal.com]

What a beautiful couple! Thank you so much for sharing! I love old family photos. I really need to get a scanner so I can share some of mine...

[sid]

Here I've had this scanner sitting next to me for months, and this is only the second time I've used it, silly me!

[amnellwyvern.livejournal.com]

Lovely photo and a lovely couple! I just love old photos like that. :)

[sid]

I looked at so many great photos yesterday. And, oh lord, there are still so many to go through. I've been putting it off, but I'm glad I got started.

[janedavitt.livejournal.com]

Theyre a beautiful couple and I'm so glad they had long, happy lives together.

[sid]

It's wonderful to look at this picture and think of how much lies ahead of them. Far more sunshine than rain. :-)

[spacemonkeyphd2.livejournal.com]

What a lovely photo!! They look wonderful, I love old pics. They sound like wonderful people.

[sid]

I am totally going to post the bookend picture to this - seventy years later. :-D

[skieswideopen]

Oh, very cool! They look like a lovely couple, but oh so solemn!

[sid]

They're smiling in the 70th anniversary pic, which I will post soonly. *g*

[delphia2000.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous photos, both of them! What a wonderful treasure to have! I love her wedding hat especially.

[sid]

Yes, there's just something wonderful about that hat!

[catspaw-sgjd.livejournal.com]

They were a lovely couple in 1923 and damn, if they weren't a lovely couple in 1993 too :-D

I love that they stayed together all those years. So cool to be able to celebrate your 70th! It can't have been plain sailing for them all that time (just think of what they lived through!) but they stuck with it and still kept smiling!

[sid]

We had a very nice party to celebrate the 70th anniversary - wore them both out! They actually got cranky and had a spat when they went out to their car. First time I'd ever heard a cross word from either of them, let alone to each other!

But they were definitely happy when they were posing a little earlier with their first great-great-grandchild. :-)

[l-jade.livejournal.com]

Wonderful pics both of them... thank you for posting this.

[sid]

I'm so glad that I did! :-)