Hee hee. I married a yute!
Let's see your old photos
Don't know that movie or whatever it is same for a yute?? but Victor, you could not have picked a more beautiful wife
Thank you, Maria.
You are welcome, Victor, most important thing in life is good health and piece of mind no matter if one is beautiful or the other handsome
Very true, Maria. And my wife has given me a healthy piece of her mind many times!
Victor, you probably needed it, quite a bit at that, :-)))
victor are you sure your dad is not garfunkel?
that little fro you had got me thinking?
Hee hee. No - Wayne Rogers.
Here is me and some family. My Dad is in the bowtie and my Mom is holding my little sister. I was such a tomboy even then - front row sitting on my Aunt Gwen's lap with leg up, hands folded and ready to get outa there :)
There were 3 more boys yet unborn to come along - 9 kids in all. That's my Grandpa and Grandma - he came over from Wales as a stowaway on a ship when he was 12 and Grandma came over at 18 from Ireland.
My Mom and Dad at 86 are still so busy and beautiful and handsome :)
Victor,
I think its true that men marry their mothers because your wife looks a lot like your mom, from these pictures anyway.
Dea --Big families are such a treat.Nice looking group!
jadajoy i will post a pic of my wife soon - looks nothing like my mother - can't imagine rolling over in the morning to see my mom, or worse!!
hee hee
Nice family shot, Dea!
I don't think there is any resemblance, Joyce. Could be just those photos. My mom is very Irish looking, my wife very Spanish, though she is quite fair-skinned.
Dea, what a treasure of a family photo! How great!
Yes, Victor she has beautiful fairly light skin which is such a contrast to her lovely dark hair. I thought she was stunning when we met and vivacious!
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Victor
Maybe its just the dark hair and fair skin. Or like you said, just old photos.But usually there is some resemblance in personality if nothing else.
Dea I love the big family photo, just got one of all 5 Grandaughters today!!
Sherrie I love your phone shot!
The little boy is my Papa to his right are his parents, in the center is my Great-Grandmother and her husband on the right, behind him is a son, brother to my grandmother, and his wife
A very old Viennese Family for many generations . I knew them all as a child but my oldes daughter at the age of four met my Great-grandmother in Vienna
Thanks, Celeste!
Wow - great shot, Maria! I love those formal shots that people used to have.
....and this is with my husband with our two daughters and baby brother and other son was born 5 years later
So beautiful Maria - truly :)
Thanks, Dea and Victor
Perhaps it's why I like the NE Forum so much. My Grandpa and Grandma met in NYC when she arrived from Ireland. He had worked his way up to being a driver for a company that supplied chauffeurs and car polishers, etc. They took a chance and applied for a job with the Redmond family who were cousins to the Roosevelts and what do you know? She was hired as a day maid and he was hired to be a driver!
So although my Mom grew up very poor, they lived in a small apartment provided by the Redmonds on their estate in Oyster Bay. Grandma was the day maid and Grandpa the chauffer so my Mom got to attend schools otherwise out of the norm for someone like her.
My Grandma and Mom taught me the finer things of home-making, like ironing pillow cases and linens and how to fold everything perfectly. But actually, these are things that I now appreciate so much! My linen closet is always so neat :)
And yes, I was born on Long Island - Levittown - LOL :)
Great history Dea! Sounds like an idea for a new thread :-)
Dea, great History of your family, mine is an amazing one also
so victor - care to start a fun thread of history like this? I'd love to hear all the great stories :)
Oh, and my Mom married a country hick boy who somehow - only God knows - got himself a math scholarship to Yale when he was 16 :) He's the little kid with his ear stuck in his finger and trust me - they were beyond poor - and I mean POOR !!
Wow - cool story, Dea! Where in Oyster Bay? I went to the beach there all the time growing up. The beach was in Bayville.
I'll ask her tonight victor - something Hill, I can't remember exactly. Dad went off to WWII as an aviator and then came back to finish up at Yale and there was some weekend party where they met :)
And here was Dad last Thanksgiving - he cracks me up. I had posted this earlier to a thread that Horseshoe started about "Honey, I shrunk the Turkey" Obviously, my Dad hammed it up for me as I had roasted a cornish game hen :)
Well friend Shoe - the dreaded event re-occurred at our happy home today ! Twas to be a small gathering of just my folks and me and DH Michael.
I was busy putting last minute touches on a pie and had let Michael finish cooking the bird. A gasp came from the other room - it was my 85 year old Dad - he was obviously stunned. Then I heard Michael's voice....."Honey, I shrunk the turkey"
Dad was befuddled and just scratched his head and picked up the knife to give it a go anyhow.
I give all the credit to Shoe that I don't have Late Blight in my tomatoes!
My mother has a several of those formal type portraits of her ancestors who grew up in rural Ohio, dating from what looks to be around the same time as Maria's Viennese family portrait. Everyone is stiff, all the children are held because no child would hold still enough of his own accord for the looong exposures they needed then.
Dea, my husband has a similar story of how his parents met, although there was no free apartment included. His father escaped to the US on a boat in the "troubles" from Ireland, his mother was an Irish chambermaid, they met on the back stairs of someone's house on Long Island where he was delivering something or selling something.
That's a wonderful picture Dea
This is a picture of my friend and I 59 years ago
Nice shot...I've got relatives somewhere in Fredericton...
Lovely photo agedgarderner :)
very nice story dea
Sagamore Hill is TR's home there. Was that it??
Victor, Nice shot of you & Mrs V
Dea, Maria,agedgardner, priceless pictures. Dea, your father cracked me upon the Thankgiving shot That has also him with his "ear stuck in his finger" right?
wow lots of photos... Victor that is such a nice shot of you and your honey..
love all your shots Dea and Maria!!... gotta love the handle bar mustache!!
Thanks, Dave and Allison.
Very nice, Joy.
Funny pic of dad, Dea!
I've really enjoyed all the photos! Some beautiful families, & wonderful memories---Jo Ann---I can see why you kept your maiden name---I'd never learn how to spell your ex's name! My Mom has the baby photos--here I'm in my mid-twenties visiting FL.
Forgot the photo!
