Today's Sincerely 'Fro Me To You post comes to you direct for 1969. I wouldn't make my presence known to my family for another 8 years, but I've heard so many stories about this time in my family's existance that I almost feel like I was there.
It was this year, I've heard, that my mom and dad packed up their two little girls and traveled clear across the country. In the summer of 1969 my dad was a dapper young man of 26 and my mom was a fresh faced girl of 23. Their little girls were my sisters B1 and B2 who were 3 and 2.
They traveled across the country from Florida to California or maybe from somewhere else, I don't know, they were driving a lot, and they decided to stop at the Grand Canyon.
Only the approach to the Grand Canyon was nothing like what we would do today with our GPS sattelites and online driving directions. No, they had a map. A map that my 23 year old mom read while my 26 year old dad drove. In a car with a bad transmission.
So they wound their way up and down roads and found themselves here, at the edge of the Grand Canyon.
When I look at this picture I always think of how fresh my mom looks. How young and beautiful she is. Her smile lights up the picture. I'm amazed how she looks perfect for 1969 and yet still perfect for today.
About 13 years later my mom would chop my hair in a similar fashion and I would spend the next 5 years explaining to well meaning strangers that I was a girl because they wouldn't let my pierce my ears. But that's a topic for another entry.
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14 comments:
Same haircut over here - from age five until age nine -- with earring-less ears.. I am quite familiar with, "I'm a GIRL!"
I feel your short hair no pierced ear pain. Yep. I was 1 when these photos were taken, so within a couple years I took looked like that...sigh.
Hey, spaz! Cool photos! In 1969 I was (gulp!) 6 and I had that identical cut. It was called a "pixie" haircut and I think it probably was to make it easier for the moms. I have never had my hair that short since and never will again! :-)
I had that hair cut too! No pierced ears tho' so many thought I was a boy. I love seeing photos of my parents at that time period too, they always looked soo good.
Your captions cracked me up. Your parents Mr. & Mrs. Beaver, are very lovely!
Oh your mom did have perfect hair! She looks so pretty :)
By the way thank you for making me sing that Bryan Adams song over and over and over again in my head. Its a good thing I like him. :)
"My dad looks like he stepped out of a Beverly Cleary novel"...
That was the very best part of this post for me. You are SO right!!! Great pictures and post.
Jen
I thought sure you were going to say they got lost in the Grand Canyon, or maybe their transmission went out. Oh wait, that's would have happened in my life!
I love the line, "My dad looks like he stepped out of a Beverly Cleary novel". It's true. I think I might have seen a guy that looks like your dad ...
Love the Bevery Cleary reference!! :) I remember "secretly" reading Jean and Johnny because I was really young, in elementary school, and it was about high school kids in love! So I didn't want my mom to know I was reading it! ha ha ha!!
Oh how I love those photos. My dad had the EXACT same glasses for many years. And I have photos of my twin sister and I in a VERY similar jump suit. And I would certainly bet I had the same hairdo!
What cute pics...you mom does look perfect!
WOOOOWW!! Look at those pics!!
It's amazing how the trends cause us all to just sort of...."look the same" during entire decades of fashion...
its good to go back and look at old pictures i love going down memory lane
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