kleenexwoman | Look, old pictures!

Oh, yay! Brian got pictures of the German punks in our house. Note: The picture you see hanging on the wall in top right-hand corner of the first photo? I PAINTED IT! (When I was in 11th grade.)

Here are some more photos I've been meaning to post. Except for the first one, I got most of these at a flea market in Royal Oak. I also got some very old books there for about 25 cents apiece. Most of them are pre-1930, and they're pretty much all falling apart. They're still in a plastic bag in my room. I've actually been collecting very cheap, very old books with a mind to cut them up and do interesting things to them the way Crispin did to "Oak-Mot" and "Rat-Catching", but I'm not certain I actually shall. I also found some old cheesecake cartoon postcards, which I intend to send out to select people who would like one.

My great-aunt Jane and her husband Eddie (we always called him Uncle E), circa I'm not sure when. Probably the late 1950s or early 1960s, judging from her age and the sunglasses. It's difficult to see because the letters are ornate, but Eddie's nametag reads "B.F.E.", which stands for "Big Fat Eddie" or "Big Fuckin' Eddie" (often shortened to "Biffie" by odd friends). E liked cars a lot, and would often take his nephews and nieces for very fast rides in his new cars. The kids invariably "baptized" the cars by tossing their cookies in the backseat.

Cowboys! Note the guy whose head seems to be disappearing into the leaves. Note the guy who's stretching out his overalls for no apparent reason. The guy at the booth told me that it was a photograph of gold-diggers during the Gold Rush. I have no way of verifying this, though.

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Marie, looking very happy with her new car. Have no idea what model the car is--cars from that era all look alike to me.

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I'm not sure when this is from, either. Depression Era, perhaps? A family of entrepreneurs, leaving their crowded tenement to make money in real estate...or so I imagine. It's fun to speculate.

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Employee ID badges. The older dude who sold these to me said that they were from GM, and he asked me what I thought of the boy in the pictures. "A fine, upstanding young man," he said. He looked to me like a rather nice greaser, but I like greasers.