Photoessay #107 - 1962 family

I'm working on a project with my family slides. Like most middle class families, my family (or rather my father) took slides from 1961-1972. Lots of families have these boxes of slides in the basement, rarely does anybody look at them. You have to dig out the slide projector or find the viewer and mess with the 2 inch square pieces of cardboard. Our hadn't been viewed for years. Too much trouble to get them out of the basement, my father would have objected. His slide projector and his slides and children should not touch them. Only he could do it and he likely wouldn't.

So I dug them out and, with my siblings, looked at most of them (photoessay #80 and #76). I brought the box of slides and the projector home. My husband purchased a film scanner several years ago with the intention of doing his own family slides. I would use that. That didn't quite work as we had to admit that the film scanner bought at substantial cost did not work. So I found a service that will turn your slides into digital files. For a fee. I sent the first box down right before our eastern Washington trip and I have been posting them with commentary on another blog http://ginsburgh-pixs.blogspot.com

btw, I have been very happy with the work they did on the first batch, the firm is Pixmonix

I intend to feature some of these family pictures on azure from time to time. Lately, I have been heavy into 1962.

This is the Ginsburgh family looking good in 1962. Sandy age 10, Charlie, age 8, Pam age 3 along with out parents Claire and Allen in Sacramento. In front of the gleaming late model car. In our driveway with the neighbor's home in the background. ALL dressed up, I don't know where we are going but we are looking respectable. My brother says that he always looks more than two years younger than me in these pictures, I think he's correct. Pam looks so miniature because she was. A preemie baby it took her a long time to catch up physically. She went to kindergarten in size 3 clothes. My mother slim in her little black dress and her hair fixed.

What strikes me in these pictures is how well dressed we are. I know that my mother worked very hard at this, we didn't have expensive clothes but we always had the right clothes, for school, for 'good', for sunday school, for winter, for summer. My mother and I often clashed about this, I fought her all the way. So, as an adult, I have not focused on the 'correct clothes' much ....or at all. Subsequently, my own family does NOT look so 'well put together' as my parents would say.

Does it matter?? (shrug) who knows.....