I always loved this picture. Even more now because we own this house and the kitchen has under gone major changes. It is great seeing old pictures to remember the old days. But funny how I never really notice Jill's cloth diapers hanging so loose, her filthy shirt and Jay's shirt with all the stains. Glad I am mostly hidden, I am sure I had my reasons for hiding. Jay is washing some lead paint chips down with an ice cold Pepsi. Hey that carton is a collectors item now. Probably asbestos in the tile floor too. How did we all survive....oh that's right we didn't.
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I love the really old pics too...but sometimes NOW you see things you didnt see then. Was that kitchen really that tiny???? Was that really Pepsi she was giving Jay....
I think the thing I have the most problem with is not that Jill's shirt is so stained, but the fact that is it obviously a hand me down from her BROTHERS. Maybe Joe is trying to steal it back, though I am sure he is plenty warm in those flannel lined pants he is wearing. It is a great picture though b/c Elaine really looks like she is enjoying this moment with her 3 favorite children. :-)
that ought to start something.....
I am standing
Those three WERE her favorites. And so were the rest of us. Mom had the unique ability to make us all know we were the favorite. What a gift! What a blessing!
And if we ever needed proof, this picture is absolute proof we grew up poor. :)
I'm guessing my dad took this picture...since there's a finger blocking the lense:) Some things never change.
I don't think you were poor yet Jer! Look at the modern refrigerator and stove. The kids are just "been playing outside dirty".
I agree Andre...My mom always told me that we couldn't have soda because we were poor, so we had watered down koolaid instead. These kids have NAME BRAND soda. And look how pretty and stylish Elaine looks in her day dress. I think Joe may rent that metal detector again because the Bozarth Loot has to be around here somewhere.
Why do I have flannel lined pants on while Jill has no pants.
3 cabinet doors open
piss poor curtains
me wearing black socks, I hate black socks
dirty shirts
Dark outside
If it is summer, why flannel and get those kids to bed
If it's winter, get some clothes on them.
Maybe that is coal dust on their shirts.
But what I really find weird, there is nothing on the refrigerator door.
Magnets weren't invented yet, Joe.
I am sure that door was sticky enough to hold some pictures of me or drawings I did.
Maybe the refrigerator was new and the pepsi came with it as a promotional gift. I can attest that we didn't have pepsi as a staple. We usually had orange-aid with our popcorn on a Saturday night. That's using a small can of frozen orange juice to make 2 quarts of juice, adding sugar of course. It was a real treat if we had ice cream on a Saturday night.
I am also sure that the kids had been playing outside, that's why the dirty shirts. We were poor but didn't go around filthy.
I like this picture because it shows the refigerator in the old place before they put the table there and moved it between the porch window and the door.
Who are these people? They look like boat people from the Ukraine. Look at little Ivan drinking his socialsit soft drink. The older one is dragging his little sister off to the gulag. The mother, of course, is a party officer gleefully watching the process of the young boy becoming a KGB stooge. Stark picture of the reality behind the Iron Curtain. And thats the way it was July 17th, 1962.
Elaine has a heck of a figure after EIGHT kids. She may have been so busy she didn't have time to eat!
I'm just glad I was double bagged.
I thought I was the only one good enough to get the double bagging:)
(Did you hear about Merlin?)
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