# Found a neat photo of grandparents from 1928 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 28, 2004, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-neat-photo-of-grandparents-from-1928/266474 "2004-09-28T13:29:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-neat-photo-of-grandparents-from-1928/266474/1 "2004-09-28T13:29:59Z")
I’m moving to a new apartment and, going through a drawer, I came across three photos of my maternal grandparents. The one I’m linking to is of them from about 1928, when she was 16 and he was 18 and they were recently married. It’s funny to see real people dressed in the period. Anyway, the pic. Have a nice day. ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-neat-photo-of-grandparents-from-1928/266474/2 "2004-09-28T13:39:29Z")
I can’t make out what your grandfather is holding, but the whole thing reminds me strongly of one of the Bonnie & Clyde photos, in which IIRC he’s holding a Tommy gun and she has a pistol. ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-neat-photo-of-grandparents-from-1928/266474/3 "2004-09-28T13:45:16Z")
> [@Bookkeeper](#): > > I can’t make out what your grandfather is holding… His left hand is holding her left hand on his waist. The building in the background makes it look like there’s more. It does have that Bonnie & Clyde-ish look, doesn’t it? I couldn’t place it until you mentioned it. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-neat-photo-of-grandparents-from-1928/266474/4 "2004-09-28T14:01:55Z")
What wonderful clothes they’re wearing! I LOVE finding old family photos. We’ve got a handful of them of my great aunts and uncles gussied up at the Kentucky Derby circa the 1930s-40s. They look fabulous. I’ve retouched a numer of old photos for my older relatives, pictures a hundred years old or more. There’s one of said aunts and uncles with their parents, dating from 1906 when they were very young (my grandmother wouldn’t be born for another 4 years) that I haven’t had the guts to tackle yet; it’s really not in good shape (torn in half, and the emulsion is smudged and faded), but it’s a great photo. ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-neat-photo-of-grandparents-from-1928/266474/5 "2004-09-28T14:07:28Z")
Great photo! I agree-very Bonnie and Clyde-ish, which adds to its charm. I never get tired of looking at old photographs like this one. My grandfather recently passed away and it was bittersweet but enjoyable task to go through the boxes of old photographs he had kept. Over a century of life, from his grandparents to him, are contained in those photos. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-neat-photo-of-grandparents-from-1928/266474/6 "2004-09-28T15:52:12Z")
Yep, Bonnie & Clyde to a “T”. I saw one of my grandparents a few years back when they had their 70th wedding anniversary celebration that I’d never seen before then. It was taken in the 20s or 30s down in Mexico at an outdoor cantina along with grandad’s brother and his wife. The four of them we’re sitting at a table and all dressed to the 9s, as were other tourists at other tables nearby. Something about it was very mesmerizing and drew you in… I must have stared at it for 20 minutes and it immediately became my favorite pic of them. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-neat-photo-of-grandparents-from-1928/266474/7 "2004-09-28T16:15:46Z")
I love old family photos—I have framed my (maternal) great-grandparent’s wedding photo (1895), my grandparent’s (1918), my parent’s (1946) and my sister’s (1998). ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-neat-photo-of-grandparents-from-1928/266474/8 "2004-09-29T04:55:02Z")
Oooh, I love your grandmother’s dress-20s fashions are my favorite! ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-neat-photo-of-grandparents-from-1928/266474/9 "2004-09-29T05:43:21Z")
Great picture. It always seems people were better looking in those old pictures than they are now. Maybe it’s the black & white. My friend’s dad died recently and she had all sorts of pictures that she showed me of her family. One was especially cool - her dad, uncles and aunts sitting around a table in a club in Havana, drinking and smoking cigars. I think it was taken in the 50’s. They were all so cosmopolitan. It made me wish I’d been there. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Means\_Go](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cc9497/32.png) [@Green\_Means\_Go](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Means_Go)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-neat-photo-of-grandparents-from-1928/266474/10 "2004-09-29T15:20:07Z")
I love old photos like this as well! If any of you dopers out there have more of these type of photos, link em! I personally will be super excited to look at them. ---
**Author:** ![tsarina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@tsarina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tsarina)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-neat-photo-of-grandparents-from-1928/266474/11 "2004-09-29T15:38:13Z")
Here’s my grandma all gussied up, circa 1926 or so. > **[Flickr](https://flickr.com/)** > > Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you... There’s some more family photos in that album, if you’re interested. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-neat-photo-of-grandparents-from-1928/266474/12 "2004-09-29T17:26:46Z")
In a family genealogy compiled by a distant cousin, I have a picture of my grandfather’s family taken around 1900, when he was ten or so. There are about 10 older siblings and their various spouses, all dressed to the nines. It’s fascinating to notice how, at that age, my grandfather’s facial features foreshadowed those of my father, my brother, my uncle, and myself, more than anyone else in that photo. ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-neat-photo-of-grandparents-from-1928/266474/13 "2004-09-29T18:36:19Z")
> [@tsarina](#): > > [Find your inspiration. | Flickr](http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/anspaug4msu/detail?.dir=db24&.dnm=924d.jpg) Your link isn’t working. Is the album public? > [@C3](#): > > It always seems people were better looking in those old pictures than they are now. It’s almost like they didn’t know how to pose. Nowadays, every time a camera comes out, people are ready to jump into their well-rehearsed poses and ham it up to various degrees. They somehow seem more natural in old photos, and I wonder if it’s because cameras were not to ubiquitous. Some modern photos from the Third World seem to have that same feel. (No examples, just my flawed memory.) Now, to get a good photo, it sometimes seems like one needs to catch the subjects by suprise or unaware. ---
**Author:** ![tsarina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@tsarina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tsarina)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-neat-photo-of-grandparents-from-1928/266474/14 "2004-09-29T18:43:56Z")
> [@js\_africanus](#): > > Your link isn’t working. Is the album public? It is now! Thanks for the heads-up. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SylverOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SylverOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SylverOne)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-neat-photo-of-grandparents-from-1928/266474/15 "2004-09-29T19:19:52Z")
I just happened across this [site](http://www.rooneys-minnesota.com) while googling our family name a couple of months ago. [This](http://www.rooneys-minnesota.com/will_rooney_family.jpg) is a picture of my paternal grandmother’s family. She’s in the middle row, Agnes, standing to the left of my great-grandfather, William Rooney. Having never seen any pictures of my fathers side of the family, save for the current generation, it was kind of neat finding one online. After contacting the folks who run the site, I now have a copy in an antique frame on my wall, next to her wedding picture from 1933 of her and my grandfather that I got from my aunt a couple of years ago. She died in 1999 at 91, so I’m guessing this picture is from the 1920’s, only a couple of years before she married. My dad was the baby of 9 kids, and she gave birth to him at the age of 45. She was pregnant at the same time as her oldest daughter (who was the oldest child.) So my dad has a nephew that is a month or so older than he is. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-neat-photo-of-grandparents-from-1928/266474/16 "2004-09-29T20:17:47Z")
Hmmm, I have some CDs that my cousin gave us full of family photos…I’m off to look at them and see what I can add! (I have some lovely old family photos that I’d love to add, but I don’t have a scanner) ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-neat-photo-of-grandparents-from-1928/266474/17 "2004-09-29T20:25:06Z")
> [@SylverOne](#): > > I’m guessing this picture is from the 1920’s. Judging by the womens’ hairstyles and clothes, I’m guessing mid- to late-1920s. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-neat-photo-of-grandparents-from-1928/266474/18 "2004-09-29T20:34:42Z")
Courtesy of **GingeroftheNorth** , [here](http://gingerdave.fathom.org/index.cgi?mode=image&album=/Eve%27s%20Pictures&image=Mom.jpg) is one of my favorite old photos of my mother, c1952. ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-neat-photo-of-grandparents-from-1928/266474/19 "2004-09-29T20:41:16Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Courtesy of **GingeroftheNorth** , [here](http://gingerdave.fathom.org/index.cgi?mode=image&album=/Eve%27s%20Pictures&image=Mom.jpg) is one of my favorite old photos of my mother, c1952. That’s a great photo. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-neat-photo-of-grandparents-from-1928/266474/20 "2004-09-29T22:11:44Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Courtesy of **GingeroftheNorth** , [here](http://gingerdave.fathom.org/index.cgi?mode=image&album=/Eve%27s%20Pictures&image=Mom.jpg) is one of my favorite old photos of my mother, c1952. Great picture-I can see where you got your sense of style! Here, I found a whole bunch of old family photos. I’m just going to link to the ones I find most interesting. (My aunts were a stylish bunch, weren’t they?) They’re all of my dad’s family, specifically his father’s family, with one exception. [My Great-Great Aunt Margaret, her husband Uncle Leo, and my great-Aunt Lu in 1934](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Guinastasia/Family%20Pictures/auntmargaretuncleleowithauntlu5201934.jpg). (Aunt Margaret’s a family legend-she died the same day I was born, and during Prohibition in the 1920s, she ran a speakeasy in her basement to make ends meet. How cool is that?) [Great-Gramma and Pappap Sutter with family, 1934](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Guinastasia/Family%20Pictures/sutterfamily1934.jpg) A picture from the same day, (judging by the fact that my aunt is wearing the same dress, and the date is the same). I’m not sure which one my grandfather is-he’s one of the two elder boys in the photo. [Great-Grandparents wedding, 1920s](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Guinastasia/Family%20Pictures/greatgrandparentssutterwedding.jpg) I THINK my great-grandmother is the one in the cloche on the right. I know that the man in the chair, however, is my great-grandfather. [Great-Gramma Sutter (then Anna Leahy), 1918](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Guinastasia/Family%20Pictures/greatgrammasutter1918.jpg) (I love this picture!) [MY great-grandparents’ “Bonnie and Clyde” style photo, 1924](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Guinastasia/Family%20Pictures/greatgrandparentssutter1924.jpg) [Early 1900s picture of Great-grandmother and siblings](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Guinastasia/Family%20Pictures/auntmargaretgreatgrammaannaunclefrancesfriend.jpg) Great-Great Aunt Margaret is the one sitting, standing to the right is my great-grandmother, and Aunt Margaret is holding Great-Great Uncle France. The other kid is a neigbhor of their’s. [Aunt Lu, Uncle Paul and Aunt Joan, 1944](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Guinastasia/Family%20Pictures/auntluunclepaulauntjoanmay141944.jpg) My Aunt Lu, Uncle Paul, (in his Navy uniform!), and my Aunt Joan. (I’d be willing to bet my Aunt Lu made those dresses-she’s a FANTASTIC seamstress) [Great Aunt Joan](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Guinastasia/Family%20Pictures/auntjoan.jpg). Aunt Joan died when I was a baby. She never married, but she worked as a secretary for the CIA in D.C.! [Aunt Margie and Uncle Gene’s wedding](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Guinastasia/Family%20Pictures/auntmargieunclegeneweddingcake.jpg) Aunt Margie is on the far right, then Uncle Gene, and then Aunt Gina (I THINK). I don’t know who the other man is. [Uncle Paul and Aunt Bernie’s wedding](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Guinastasia/Family%20Pictures/unclepaulauntberniewedding.jpg) [My paternal grandparents wedding portrait, 1947](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Guinastasia/Family%20Pictures/grammapappapsutterwedding.jpg) [Aunt Margie, junior prom, 1952](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Guinastasia/Family%20Pictures/auntmargiejrprom1952.jpg) My aunt Lu made her dress-she said it was white organdy (or something like that), with a lavender underdress. [Aunt Gina, Aunt Lu and Aunt Margie](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Guinastasia/Family%20Pictures/auntginaauntluauntmargie.jpg) I love this picture, it’s so sweet! [Great Grandparents and daughters, April 1954](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Guinastasia/Family%20Pictures/greatgrammaandpappapsutterdaughtersapril181954.jpg) My great-grandparents and four of my aunts. The only two I can identify for certain, though, are Aunt Margie, on the far right (I love her dress!), and aunt Gina on the far left. [Great Gramma Gerthoffer-Ellen Hickey, 1918](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/Guinastasia/Family%20Pictures/greatgrammagerthofferneehickey1918.jpg) My dad’s mother’s mom, in 1918, before she was married. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/found-a-neat-photo-of-grandparents-from-1928/266474.md?page=2)