This photo comes from Darren B. from the 1940’s era, friends of his grandmother’s taken on the Peabody Bridge…
Thanks to Darren for sending along this photo, and to everyone else who wrote about the Peabody.
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there’s such a huge number of photos here passed onto me from my grandmother. i must try to sort them out soon. so many are from my family in England though. got to separate them from the ones from Canada. mostly, i need to try to find as many negatives as i can too, since i know they probably hold secrets i’ve never seen yet. i wish i could ask my grandmother who that woman is, but she has alzheimer’s and hardly remembers me anymore now. wish we talked more earlier on…
cool! thanks for sharing this darren! you never know what someone with alzheimer’s is going to remember darren, you should give it a shot. my girlfreind works in a nursing home and most of the people with alzheimer’s are practically stuck in the 30’s and 40’s.
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Sorry to hear that, Darren. My grandfather had Alzheimer’s at a young age and since we lived in different countries, I didn’t get to hear too many stories from him. My grandmother and I would stay up late all the time though during visits and she’d tell me as much as she could. I think your message is a good one to everyone…you never know when your grandparents might not have the chance to tell you something so act now if you can!! Thanks for the picture, I love it; they are dressed so smartly!
early i had seen a great picture of the entrance to the bridge and i wanted to show it to some one and now it seems to have been removed .the topic is grand and brings back memories of a sw&a driver yelling at me to keep my hands in the bus when we drove over it .thanks