Saturday Snapshots {September 5, 2009}

"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see." ~ Winston Churchill

{Everything about this photo is fantastic! Their smiling faces, the young man’s tulip hued eyeglasses, the lady’s delightful ethnic patterned skirt, the kids’ varying expressions, the two cars peaking out of the background – all wonderfully representative of the 50s.}



{A woman strikes a somewhat reflective pose atop an unidentified hill. Undated, I’m not entirely sure when this photo was taken. Her hair is very casual and doesn’t instantly speak of a certain period, but the simple, lovely dress makes me think this shot is from the 40s or early 50s.}



{Amidst a bustling crowd a young girl named Ginny turns to the camera and beams a smile, in this shot from 1946, before she heads off to summer camp.}



{Four ladies in fairly casual garb (isn’t it neat that two of them are sporting slacks?) pose around the front of a car in this photo from the 1940s, which was taken in Phoenix, Arizona.}



{A stylishly dressed young woman looks so elegant as she sits atop a stone wall in a blue skirt suit and matching hat, in this photo from the 1940s.}



{All but the very youngest member of this chipper looking group of gals shows off her braided hair in this adorable photo (which I’m guessing to be from the late 30s or early 40s).}



{A small group of employees sit on a bench with protest signs, in this photo from Lakewood, Ohio circa 1952. In the course of my vintage photo searches I’ve encountered numerous images of people on strike before, but rarely do they seem so relaxed about their protests as these folks appear to be.}



{It rained the whole time this fellow was on holiday in the UK, according to his son who posted this photo hailing from 1951. As unpleasant as a damp trip can be, I can’t help but wish I could go on holiday with such a stunning car pulling a wonderful vintage trailer (caravan).}



{This undated shot – which I’m pegging to be from the early 60s based on the woman’s clothing and the style of the vacuum cleaner – depicts a lady who seems to be taking a moment to gather all the strength she can muster before continuing on with the housework. Who, I ask, as they embarked on some dreary chore, has not felt like this at one time or another?}



{A huge smile spread across my face the moment I saw this 1950s shot, how could it not? These darling children are so adorable in their “adult job” costumes, calling to mind the bounty of things my siblings and I used to spend time pretending to be when we were kids.}


{All images above are from Flickr. To learn more about a specific image, please click on it to be taken to its respective Flickr page.}


Last week I added a quote to the Saturday Snapshots post, tacked onto the bottom of the entry, but thinking things over, I feel it makes more sense to have the quote appear at the beginning (what do you think, quote before or after the photos?).

One could, in Criminal Minds fashion, post a quote at both the start and finish of a piece, but for the moment I prefer to go the single quote root. I don't want to boggle down the Saturday Snapshots entries with a lot of text before or after the images. The emphasis here is on the splendor of these everyday - yet in no way prosaic - photos themselves.