I salute your detective work Mr. GES, be it right or wrong. But I can’t duplicate your work with the watch – I finally downloaded the full-size image, but don’t see anything close to 5:00. Assuming the 12 is closest to the man’s hand (there seems to be a stem there) , I’m seeing the watch’s hands in the 10 and 2 positions.
Which makes no sense, unless the watch is wrong/stopped. The shadows are too long for 10:10 am or 1:50 pm.
Does anyone else see the watch hands?
It looked like a little after 5:00 to me, but it might have been the power of suggestion.
I’ll note that usually a watch stem is at the 3:00 position. That might be why you see it differently.
Every wristwatch I can recall owning always had the stem adjacent to the 3. I can’t make out the hands clearly but based on yours and the detective work above, both hands just either side of the three makes it a little after 4/5:00 or coming up on 1/2:30. Curve of the bezel looks to be throwing shadows on the clockface parallel to the arm.
Pocket watches have the stem near the 12 but I’ve also seen them with a stop watch configuration at 2 & 10 with the hanger for the fob at 12.
I’ve never seen a watch with 12 closest to the hand. It’s always been the 3. Can you provide any example of a wrist watch with a 12 nearest the hand?
Notre Dame School Sisters
Address: 345 Belden Hill Rd, Wilton, CT 06897
The man was 5’11 1/2’’ inches. Not sure of the woman’s height. I posted the address of the place in my most recent post before this one. I’m really liking your analysis.
Heh, and facepalm. Well, to put a postive spin on things, that certainly jump-started the thread. And with that little orientation tidbit factored in, the watch does read a little after five o’clock.
Google maps satellite view.
It’s apparently the same building – at leastthis article says the institution has been located there since 1961, and the buildings are “1950s modern.”
If the young lady is in habit, I suspect that it is the habit of either a postulant or a novice (google images of SSND show that professed Sisters wore traditional habits,* including wimples (my late aunt, by contrast, did not wear a wimple as a novice). If she is a postulant or novice, that photograph seems consistent with an end-of-summer visit from her family (or perhaps her family dropping her off to begin a new school year).
The length of the shadows also appears consistent with late-ish afternoon while still in Daylight Saving Time, but not too long before the equinox (a matter of a couple of weeks, tops). So, I’m voting for early September.
*IIRC, traditional habits would still have been the norm in 1967, for most communities of nuns.
If it helps, she turned 18 in late September 1967, although I don’t know what the rules were then. I know she completed High School in June 1967.
A second photo from the same day
That second photo is quite helpful, as the chapel wall above the auto’s tailfin faces almost due west. Here’s a bird’s eye view to aid others. With such long shadows, and the sun’s position seemingly due west, it must be September (or March, which seems unlikely from the vegetation).
To the OP, why is the time of year important?
Did she enter the convent with an intention to take the veil?
Too bad this isn’t a movie. There’d be a guy in the background reading a newspaper we could zoom and enhance.
Yes. She would have got away with it, too, if it weren’t for those darn kids.
When people started talking about the watch hands, I was hoping for a zoom in on a date counter…
1967 was a very important year in my family’s history. At some point in the year, my grandfather (the man pictured with my aunt in the OP)'s affair was uncovered and that ended my grandparents marriage. These are among a very few family photos I even have from the 1960s. Narrowing down when such an important, life-changing event happened is interesting to me. If my grandparents hadn’t split up, my mother’s life, for example, would’ve been completely different; she wouldn’t have been a mother at 17, for one.
From what I gather, yes. There is a later picture from September 1969 with her in more of the traditional habit. And an early 1970s picture with her fully as a Nun. I can’t be sure and say when exactly her time as a Nun ended, but I do know she used the Nunnery to get the fuck out of my grandparents’ house as soon as she could, at age 18. By the end of the 1970s, though, she had escaped from being a Nun.
There is a movie shot this day, but it’s not aged well, it’s in quite poor condition. It would be hard to tell time of day from it. Some screencaps just to hammer home the poor quality of it:
In the second, you can see my grandfather accidentally catching his reflection in the glass, camera in hand
It’s for whatever reason one of the poorer quality home movies. We no longer have the original reels, just DVD copies. But the films span from 1962-1967 yet some of the '62, '63 era films look largely okay.
