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applegrove

(130,306 posts)
Fri Oct 10, 2025, 02:58 AM Oct 2025

Post an iconic picture from your cell phone. Here is my mom

on a beach in Nova Scotia in the late 1950s. My mom was born there. She was such a country girl.

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Post an iconic picture from your cell phone. Here is my mom (Original Post) applegrove Oct 2025 OP
Lovely photo irisblue Oct 2025 #1
She worked at Keltic Lodge in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia applegrove Oct 2025 #3
Wow, they had cell phones in the 1950's? I did not know that AZJonnie Oct 2025 #2
I'll play markie Oct 2025 #4
So hard to lose your father at such a young age. applegrove Oct 2025 #8
Madrid, main plaza. Onlookers thought I was invading privacy. UTUSN Oct 2025 #5
What a fun photo. applegrove Oct 2025 #9
My dad and me taking a nap at my grandparents' house catbyte Oct 2025 #6
What a great, cuddly Dad. applegrove Oct 2025 #10
This message was self-deleted by its author LuckyCharms Oct 2025 #7
Beautiful. They knew how to do a 'silouette' back then, back applegrove Oct 2025 #11

applegrove

(130,306 posts)
3. She worked at Keltic Lodge in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
Fri Oct 10, 2025, 04:35 AM
Oct 2025

summers when she was in med school in Halifax. You can see it in the background. It is still there though I think it is closed for refurbishment

AZJonnie

(2,836 posts)
2. Wow, they had cell phones in the 1950's? I did not know that
Fri Oct 10, 2025, 04:04 AM
Oct 2025


Anyways, I'll play. My mom at her HS Senior Ball, in Altadena, CA, 1962. The man in the photo is her friend Walter, and she was his 'beard' at a time when gay young men in HS did not come out, but Walter had done so with my mom. She and Walter remain friends to this day and see each other fairly regularly. Walter has been with his now-husband since I was a kid in the 70's, I remember the two of them coming over for dinner. Walter and hubby lived in the Castro for YEARS in the 70's and 80's and were married in SF literally on THE DAY it became legal for them to do so.

markie

(23,855 posts)
4. I'll play
Fri Oct 10, 2025, 05:36 AM
Oct 2025

so, not phone, but 2.......

1st: my grandmother w/my dad and aunt after my grandfather died... headed to the VFW National Home

2nd: the antifa members in my family's past (I am proud Antifa!!)



applegrove

(130,306 posts)
8. So hard to lose your father at such a young age.
Fri Oct 10, 2025, 03:35 PM
Oct 2025

I know. There are two young widows in my family. Love the clothes and the hat. So proud you must be of the antifa in your past.

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applegrove

(130,306 posts)
11. Beautiful. They knew how to do a 'silouette' back then, back
Fri Oct 10, 2025, 03:39 PM
Oct 2025

when photographers were all professionals.

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