There’s a restaurant about 15 miles from where I grew up that is closing after having been open for decades. I’ve lost track of how many photographs I have that were taken there–both inside of and outside of the restaurant.
Not because I was posting pictures of food or the exterior of the establishment.
It was where we would eat out when there was a birthday, anniversary, special event, or when relatives came from out of town. There are pictures of my cousins and me when our grandmother turned 80. There are pictures there when cousins on the other side of the family came to visit from California…and many others.
Have you written down the names of places where your family gathered on special occasions? Do you have many pictures taken in those locations? In my case, it can be difficult to tell what the occasion was because the backdrop is the same in many cases.
Sometimes I can tell by who is in the picture.
Clothe are not always helpful. Grandma had pretty much one “good dress” for such occasions…so her attire is not always helpful. This is not meant to be critical of her attire at all as I thought the world of my Grandma Neill.
But track those places that no longer exist where many events in your family’s past may have taken place.
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