So I finally finished the new album of Great Grammie Goodrich’s photos for Dad and brought it over to him. I pointed out three different 5×7 photos of my older brother to my Mom and commented on what a cute little boy he was. She told me that she had a contract with a photographer that came to her home every year to take photos of my brother, and when I came along, of me. The photographer used to set himself up in the living room. What a cool idea, huh? That way, the child is happiily in his own environment instead of being dragged off to a studio somewhere and feeling very scared about the whole ordeal. Here’s a small version of one of these photos of my brother:
Isn’t he a cutie?
Things are not like they used to be. I remember deliveries being made to the home, too. Mom used to have Charles Chips Potato Chips delivered every week – those were the best potato chips! She had a tin like the one shown on the website, and she actually still has that tin after all of these years. I also remember that when my younger brother came along she had a diaper service pick up the dirty diapers and drop off clean ones – cloth diapers, that is. There may have been other delivery men she had, but those are the two I remember. Back when things were less complicated than they are today.
November 19, 2006 at 11:27 am
Ah ha, good old diapers (cloth diapers) was what I used on my kids, with the pins and the rubber pants. Not in the 1960’s although, but in the 1970’s and 1980’s.
Less complicated you are right, change diapers and rubber pants, store in diaper pail, come laundry day, wash diapers, pin diapers and rubber pants on clothesline, fold, and use on baby again.