I have written about the digital photo bonanza that I received from my sister and how I have been trying to identify as many of the photos as I can. I've posted some of them on my blog and asked other family members for assistance in filling in details. We haven't been doing very well.
One of the photos that has been discussed is this one of my mother standing in front of a red car.
Some of the questions: What kind of car is that? (My brother commented that the details on the car are blurry, but that's how the scan looks. My sister has not weighed in with any comments based on the original.) Was it my family's car? Where was this photo taken? California? Nevada? Where are the three of us kids? (My aunt insisted she can see us in the back seat, but I'm not buying it.)
I went back through the photo scans and discovered three more dated Apr 70 that seem to have been taken around the same time.
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| My father (photo apparently taken by my mother) |
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| My mother (same clothes), my brother, and the same car |
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| My mother (different clothes) staring off into the distance |
After some diligent and focused online searches, the car has now been identified as a 1970 Toyota Crown Station Wagon. It helped that my father told me in 2017 that we had a 1970 Toyota Station Wagon at one point, but the clincher was finding a press photo from when the 1970 Crown was released. The details match the car in the first photo exactly.
Of course, some questions remain. Where were the photos taken? The picnic table makes it look like some sort of campground. I remember that we used to go camping occasionally, but I remember almost nothing about the places we went.
Why do my sister and I not appear in the photos? Are there additional photos from this trip that I haven't run across yet in the files that were sent to me where we do show up?
And since when did my family own a new car?
But I think great progress has been made.
Good detective work on the car! About the dates on the photos, you probably remember that back in those days, sometimes people wouldn't develop a roll of film until it was completely full...and even then, maybe not immediately. Also film was often sent away for processing, which could add a week or two to the date. So these particular photos might have been from earlier in that year, just a possibility.
ReplyDeleteI do remember that about getting the photos developed, but that would make the car even newer and my confusion over that aspect even greater. I suspect my father didn't sit on film too long before having it developed, though.
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