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| Albert and Alva Sept 22, 1923 |
I removed my maternal Grandparents from the tri-frame and took a photo without the glass, below I did a few edits to sharpen their faces and removed the tear.
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| this one was taken through the glass, and I liked what the glass reflection did to it, so edited the scratch. |
Out of the tri-frame and a few edits. they are a little different so posting both.
Charles and Lucille McCall, Sept 22, 1943
they were married on her 18th Birthday. My grandmother refused to allow her to marry him, and swore he never wood. Daddy got on a train and came from Savannah, GA to Palmetto, Florida and knocked on the door and said we are getting married on her birthday, you can come to the wedding or not.
My grandmother refused to go, but the story is she did show up at the wedding and until the day she died swore it would never work. When they met on the steps of a boarding house, mother was 17 and just graduated from high school. She was in Savannah visiting my grandfather, her father, because he was working there in the CC camps during WWII.
Gonnie, the name I called my grandmother got on the train and dragged mother home. Mother said she sobbed the whole 10-hour train ride. The problem was, she was 17 and daddy was 30. he turned 31 a month after they married. It did work until the day she died in 1990.
14 comments:
What a story! But it is the haunting photo of your grandparents that I love, and will likely never forget. They are so beautiful, young, and happy!!! And you have brought them back to life so beautifully. It is a truly gorgeous photo.
Those photos are so precious.❤️
Hari OM
Truly delightful memories... your grandparents really are very good-looking - not that your parents were short on those stakes either! Photos are very precious triggers for recording history... YAM xx
Hello,
Your grandparents and parents are beautiful couples, wonderful photos.
I am glad they all had a happy life. That is some story. Take care, have a wonderful week!
It’s great to have these pictures and the stories surrounding them. Now we know where you get your good looks, Sandra.
Just meant to be and those are great photos! What a wonderful story!
Wow, fantastic job of editing that first photo. You can't even tell there was ever a tear.
Great story about your parents. My grandparents were 12 years apart in age and were together until she died. My parents were 10 years apart and only lasted 17years before my mother divorced my dad. You just never know.
Great job on those edits!
For some reason, your mother looks so much older than her mother did. Rather, more mature. It's probably the difference in clothing and hair. Do you happen to have a photograph of your grandparents in their later years?
It just occurred to me, how marriages in those days were the 'til death do us part' kind. Not so much today's 'disposal' variety ... pointing at myself here.
Such an interesting story...you need to write a book.
I love everything about the time in which these happy couples lived and loved.
Hugs Cecilia
Great edits Sandra...I love seeing the different eras of clothing and styles of posing.
Precious memories
I can see you in both of the parental photos..lovely.
Sue
Thank you for sharing their photos and the stories of what actually happened. It's nice that you know all of these facts.
What a wonderful, happily ever after, love story! Love the pictures, you did a great job!
That was a wonderful story about a truly wonderful couple.
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