| I For most of these
pictures, I am indebted to a mother who saved everything. She
lived through the depression; and after that, she was left with four
small children to support on the salary she made as a waitress. Much to the
consternation of her children, she would throw hardly anything out.
"We might need these old shoes or clothes someday", she'd say when
her kids would complain that if she kept it up, the attic beams
would collapse under the weight of all the junk she kept. One time when her kids cleaned out the
attic and took out all the old junk to the alley, she came home
before the garbage was collected. Under her irate direction, it was
all carted back in P.D.Q.!!!!! When she died, the attic was
again, emptied...and that included stacks of old magazines...some
dating back to the early 1920s. You see, she was an amateur
painter who loved western art.....and she wouldn't part with a
single magazine that had even a single good picture in it. I guess
she had more sense than all of her four kids did put together. Many of those magazines would
be quite valuable today. They were mostly thrown out. Saved,
however, and given to me, was a box loaded with pictures of western
art that she had cut from various magazines, calendars,etc. It was labeled,
"For Betty's Album". My late husband scanned the
pictures and saved them for me on floppy discs. These
pictures are presented as a result of the loving efforts of both of
these people. |