Mom and Dad's Wedding

The back of the photographs are dated Jan. 17, 1947.

World War II was over. The Great Depression had been at an end a few years before. The country was in the midst of the post-war baby boom, and the conversion from military to civilian industry was well under way. These were two Kodachrome prints made by Eastman Kodak Company. But none of this was to last, not even Eastman Kodak.

By 1960, which probably would have seemed a long way off to those at this wedding, mom and dad would be divorced and dad just remarried.

It's like looking through a time portal into the distant past. Everyone in this photograph has been dead for nearly a decade and more. My grandmother died in the 1970's. My grandfather in the late 1980's. (They stand immediately to the left of my father.)

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