Flashback Photos by Valerie Halla
MY WONDERFUL SANDERSON GRANDPARENTS WHO VISITED US IN OUR CUTE LITTLE HOUSE LONG AGO IN PA WITH MY MOM AND I ON A COLD DAY. PHOTO WAS SENT TO ME BY A SOUTH DAKOTA COUSIN
Our cousins keep in touch for which I am eternally grateful. One cousin sent a batch of old pictures her mother had put into an album. The pictures don’t have much info on the reverse side because some of them were glued into an album. These photos are worth more than anything to me and definitely worth more than a thousand words. Besides I’m not sure I could even type 1000 words today, My caregiving duties suck time like a robovac vacuuming up crumbs. I try to find time to write down memories which are fast fleeting the older I get.
Here goes with old pictures and old fading memories of days spent with more innocence and more fun than most things give us nowadays…
At our Aunt’s house in Murdo with my two cousins, Jeff H and Andrea, and I’m in the middle with some cat named Tammie in 1950. I love that geometric linoleum kitchen floor.
Our good South Dakota friends, the Pecks, in the center of photo visiting our house in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, PA.My Mom is on the left, me as a kid on the right. Those pillbox hats were made famous in the 1960’s by Jackie Kennedy. Jackie’s looked somehow better on her.
That’s me with my new doll Helen, named after my beautiful aunt who had lovely dark hair like my doll. That’s our Christmas tree which my parents always bought fresh then planted in spring in our yard in PA.The saddle shoes were popular in my school at the time.This is late 1950’s or early 1960’s.
We used to love playing with dolls, building forts and parading or just walking down our street on Fourth of July with US Flags and singing like we knew the words to patriotic songs.
Good times.
Great memories.
Ride ‘em cowgirl. I’m about 4 or 5 here in PA with new trike and outfit. Love the tv with rabbit ears.
Maybe you have some old pictures that take you back to a sweet carefree life. Even these pictures are unencumbered with color. Pictures were all simply black and white. Wouldn’t it be grand if life could be simpler again?
Those 70ish Girls 
Loved this! The pictures are amazing!
I wonder where Billy and Terry were in the picture of you 3 sitting on the floor. You were such a cutie.
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Grandpa M.E.’s coat is so epic.
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