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S. S United States

 

On the deck of the S. S. United States in 1968 sailing home from Belgium. The largest, fastest ocean liner ever built, the ship was decommissioned in 1969 and is sitting (rotting) on a dock in Philadelphia. https://www.ssusc.org/

Monday, December 30, 2019

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Friday, December 22, 2017

Message from the past



1965 Message to Tio Don from Marybeth on Vimeo.


I find this clip comforting. Nice to hear Dad, Mom, Wela and Welo's voices all together.

Sunday, October 29, 2017

Female Entrepreneur - You can call me Ray


I have always been curious who the women in this photograph are and who took it. I have had no success, but I did discover something interesting about the photo. The film was likely processed through the mail and the processing company was owned by a woman.

Helen Mae Hoeft worked as a photographer for a local portrait photographer Millard Reynolds in La Crosse Wisconsin (business later known as Paramount Photo Shop). Around 1924 when business began to fall off  Helen had an idea to start a a mail order photo processing service (which did not exist at the time). She called it Ray's Photo Service and charged 25 cents. Some believed she used the name Ray fearing poeple would not buy photo printing services from a female. She said she got the idea from seeing sun rays after a long rainy spring.  Helen eventually owned Paramount Photo Shop and sold it in 1955. *

(*Information taken from La Crosse Tribune Q&A Ask the Trib, 2003).



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