Feb 092012
 
Tom and Bob: the War Years

The courageous brothers returned to Memphis from World War II without injury or illness. This picture was made on Felix Avenue. The Model A Ford was named "Dizzie Lizzie". TMM, Sr. loved the old Fords because "you could fix anything with a pair of pliers and a screwdriver". The composition here ("people with license plate […]

Feb 042012
 
Cora Maybelle Riley

This picture predates our first washing machine (which didn’t have the cycles of today’s; you had to drain and fill with a hose, and it had hand-cranked rubber rollers for squeezing the water out of clothes). This picture was taken in Fort Worth, Texas, just after she came to work for us in the 1940s. […]