Vintage Click

22:22:00 MoonDoggie 5 Comments


I managed to scan a few photos using a friend's scanner tonight so here is the first 'Vintage Click' post in quite a while.

This is a photograph of my grandmother taken in 1969.  The building behind her is the James Cook University library in Townsville, Australia. You may remember this building from one of the posts I did about trying to locate 'Googie' outside the U.S (go here).

I think her outfit is quite cute (for an older lady) and if my eyes don't deceive me, I do believe she's wearing gloves - chic!

5 comments:

  1. Uncle Atom5 May 2010 at 23:12

    From a distance she looks a lot like my mother looked in 1969, only I know she was never in Australia! In the US, I believe ladies had begun to stop wearing white gloves in the late 1960s, maybe about the same time men stopped wearing hats. Nicely composed photo by the way!

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  2. MoonDoggie6 May 2010 at 08:02

    You calling my grandma out of date, Atom? Only kidding.
    This must have been a special occasion as I don't recall ever seeing any other pictures of her wearing gloves. I know the Queen came for the university's proclamation the next year so it wasn't for that.
    As for the composition, I imagine my grandfather took it as he was quite interested in photography. His father was a photographer who story has it, took a picture of Edward VIII which the then prince liked so much he asked for his own personal copy. I have a copy of the photo around somewhere...

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  3. 1950s Atomic Ranch House6 May 2010 at 14:26

    Love older family photos! I need to take more digitals of my own...

    Australia looks so much like southern California where I live. In parts or areas, not all of it lol... The mountains and the trees. They brought a lot of eucalyptus trees here in the 30's to try to forest them for wood and used a lot of them as wind breaks between farmers plots of land to help keep the soil from blowing away.

    In fact, a lot of Aussie plants are now common here since the growing zones are about the same. Hot and dry for months at a time lol...

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  4. MoonDoggie6 May 2010 at 17:11

    You're a font of knowledge Atomic!
    I didn't know any of that - except that it was hot and dry in both places.
    I don't like the smell of eucalyptus but people seem to really dig those trees.

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  5. Amy7 May 2010 at 23:56

    She looks like a very trendy lady!

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