Caveat: Old Photos and Very Old Photos

I spent the day with my dad, going through some boxes of his cousin Larry's stuff. We found some old photos. Some seem quite historical, in a family-history sort of way.

Here's a few I thought were interesting. Most of them are at the San Marino house.

This first is from the ealy 1960's. It my grandfather John and grandmother Alice, their daughter Freda (my dad's sister) and her first husband Ron. Seated are my great-grandfather John Way Sr and my great-grandmother Isabel, and the two little ones are my cousins Sylvia and Trevor.

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Here is one of my aunt Janet, her mom my grandmother Alice, and great-grandmother Isabel. I'm guessing it's the late 1950's or early 60's.

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Here's a slightly more recent picture. It's from a giant family reunion (my grandparent's 50th wedding anniversary) that was held at the San Marino house in the summer of 1981. There are a lot of people in this picture. I will only note that I'm in it, and that at the time I was 15 years old – it looks a little bit like I'm having some kind of side-conversation with my cousin Kamala, over my cousin Jori's shoulder.

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The next picture is from that same summer event in 1981, but now it's mostly of my aunt Janet and my two cousins, Kamala and Joyce, but it's actually a not-bad picture of me standing off by myself to the right.

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The last two pictures may not be in San Marino. My dad thinks they're in the ancestral home outside of Pittsburgh. It's possible. It's my great-grandmother Isabel Stewart Way with her mother, whose name I don't know. Given the apparent ages and the supposed Pittsburgh setting, that would make the photo dating from the 1910's – i.e., it's about 100 years old.

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Here's another picture from the same 1910's setting, of Isabel and her mother and her daughter Katherine Ellen Way ("Kit") as a small child, who was my dad's cousin Larry's mom.

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Caveat: Weirdness Prevails

My brother likes to fix things. My dad brought down a very annoying meme-object from my cousin Larry's house, known as "Big Mouth Billy Bass." Andrew fixed it by making a new power cord for it. He then placed it in the kitchen. When my dad came through the kitchen in the middle of the night, the Bass began to sing, as activated by the motion sensor.

This startled my dad. He unplugged it. This morning, with total aplomb, my dad explained, and concluded, "Weirdness prevails." This is a typical sort of pronouncement from Phil.

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