Good morning and good grief, for I have had this post sitting in my queue for a whole year. Last December I scanned some old negatives, including the ones below, of Shauna's first Santa Claus parade in 1973. I had other restorations to publish at the time, so when I couldn't get this posted before Christmas 2024, I put it aside for this year. With Christmas looming, I could easily have missed posting this year too.
These photos are of Shauna's first Christmas parade in Sarnia in 1973. A year or three later, we, somehow, managed to take her all of the way to the really big parade in Toronto.
We seemed to be early for this parade in Sarnia in the first photo, and we must have thought better of our location because we had changed position in the other pictures.
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| Sue's leather coat was tres magnfique! and Shauna was well bundled against the cold, but if memory serves it was not a terribly cold day — milder Sarnia weather, not Ottawa winter weather. |
Some folks think we take too many pictures, but looking back on them is a treat, and we enjoyed the slideshow on Shauna's birthday. I am not sure what the grandkids thought of it, but we who were present both then and now really appreciated the stroll along memory lane.
Shauna looks less than thrilled in that one picture. It is so cool that you have that negative and had the dedication to save it for an entire year in your drafts!
ReplyDeleteOld photographs, or rather, photographs of earlier years, are always interesting when they feature people we know or knew.
ReplyDeleteWho knows what memories and rhythms embedded themselves into Shauna's developing brain?
I'm not sure when the first time I remember seeing someone where tights in public but I'm pretty sure it was not until the early 80's after the Jane Fonda workout videos started hitting the market and even then, they weren't allowed in our schools until sometime after I graduated. They were considered too revealing. Wow have times have changed!
ReplyDeletei had never thought about it, but changing clothing tends goes along with your own post.
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