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This little pile of binders/etc finally actually brought home here from the cleanout house today, at my insistence, in a specific trip over there that otherwise rather unexpectedly took an extra hour+ to also chase down/recover BEAR as well from all around the surrounding 'hood, who had otherwise managed to free himself from his collar sometime earlier today and was thus running loose all over the place. <groan> I really *don't* need to suddenly have a big ole sweet puppydog living in my own backyard...why am I somehow nearly expecting that that's gonna happen anyways in the near future, whether I wanna or not...?? <sigh><headdesk>
[his only handy pic I gots already shown here:]
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/275969-happy-holidaze-to-all-my-cw-friends
OH WELL, let's carry on. The pile of binders shown here are, in reality, somebody else's old family photo albums. The REAL kinda of photographs that is -- which still (likely 1960's-70's here...not anything 'antique' by any means, just old family pictures?) had to be taken with actual film in an actual camera, which then got taken off someplace else to be 'developed' and all that assorted yada yada...that was just how everybody did "family photos" back then before we all had (enormously better quality no doubt) little 'phone-cams' in our pockets everywhere we otherwise go...??? (unless somebody had a 'rich uncle' with a POLAROID camera that is, if so being able to actually enjoy seeing the freshly taken picture 'develop before one's eyes' in only 5mins or so...?? yes, I've got a couple of those things hanging around here in boxes too... <lol>)
They're just in their pile on top of my clothes dryer right now (for their own few days of 'quarantine' before I bring 'em inside and start to look closer at what they really are) but I already know that there are a few kinda now priceless bits of history therein...I *do* know who's family they came from. (even if I don't and haven't ever, or will likely ever, meet anybody in there)
Yes, one of the photos on the top is somebody's uncle (daddy? grandpa?) in his casket at his funeral with his US Military-duty flag also prominently seen...that very flag (along with 3 others, not sure which one is exactly which) is also here safely in my house now for all the further 'safekeeping/honor' I can ever possibly give it.
The flags came home immediately upon their discovery a couple wks ago there...the photo albums were unearthed about the same time (and STRONGLY SUGGESTED by me to be 'put aside somewheres safe'...) but didn't make it here until today. OH -- and for that matter -- one of those binders isn't actually a 'photo album' itself, but instead a collection of original complete (and nicely preserved in individual plastic sleeve-thingies) MAGAZINES whose cover photos/headlines/etc reflected then important (or at least as much as somebody thought it worth going to buy the current issue of whatever magazine it was?) events in our collective lives as US/World Citizens, again late 1970's-early 1980's or so. Presidential elections, various stuff like that...I really haven't *even* begun to really thumb thru what's all in there yet...?
CHEERS to all y'all, if nothing else just to "history for the sake of it".... :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
THANKS Brunswick, fortapache, Newfld, Trey, Bobby725, Toyrebel, & vetraio50 for stopping by and leaving your appreciations. I can say at the moment without reservation (though I have not yet actually started to thumb thru the albums myself) that I absolutely DO know that their 'being saved' has already been appreciated by at least one or three of the people whose photos *do* appear every so often within them (as children perhaps, or otherwise currently living relatives of a few others pictured in there who might *not* still be with us all today, etc) ...all the more to my initial insistence to *put those things someplace SAFE for the moment* when we were all otherwise mostly just hauling junk outta the house...
;-) :-) :-)
[and that pile of flags is gonna get their own proper-ish showing here soon too, because they likewise deserve to continue their own 'lives' beyond being otherwise just that many more scraps of fabric buried in a crusty plastic binful of garbage on a curb...] <nonono...>
Still trying to catch up with THANK YOUS, now additionally to yougottahavestuff, blunderbuss2, & SEAN68.
FWIW, even though I have yet to actually bring any of 'em into my house and start to look myself, my partner (who is "kin" to those pictured therein) HAS been looking back thru 'em while they're otherwise still out on top of the dryer -- also enjoying taking phonecam pics of some of his favorites and sharing (via the farcebook or whatever) with more immediate family -- the exact kinda folks (and 'process'?) as matter of fact, that I EXACTLY hoped would eventually happen.
:-) :-) :-) :-) :-)