My 1959 mugshot

My mom died way too soon 15 years ago today at 4:25 in the afternoon.  I like the Indun car with one hubcap missin.

Pontiac

Doesn't refer to the make of the car, but rather to the condition.  It's an inside joke I probably shouldn't have used.  My mom's heritage is pretty evident, even if mine ain't so much.  Actually that car belonged to my Great Uncle Hiram McLaine, I believe.  An inveterate secretive treasure hunter of the Wichita Mountains and locations unknown, who possessed obscure and puzzling maps and drawings to aid his searches.  A Scotsman, also, as I remember.

Sorry to hear bout ur mother , But I would think she would be very proud of what you have done .
Great pic WTG

Its so sad when we lose people we love way to early I am sure she is looking down on you and your family with much love!

On the other hand MG, she could be lookin up! (I'll probably go there for that post but Mom would laugh at it.)

LOL! I am pretty sure where my parent are and I don't want to go there, my grandmother I don't know??

Pictures and memories.  I watched a news story today the mom lost her only adult child from a local murder....I fell out of chair when she said she destroyed all evidence of her existence after the Perp was convicted... she wanted to move on... no child hood pictures....it is as though her daughter ceased to exist...

Seeing you post confirms my belief that we keep and preserve our memories.

Yeah someday later on down the road, rjw4law, it will get down to memories are all you got.  My dad's 76 years old and sits and looks out the window at the world down there in Oklahoma, and I know he's rememberin.  I hope like him my good memories far outweigh the bad ones.

I think it is a great photo. I do not have many old photos of my family. Memories are a great thing.


Thanks for sharing.

Ray S ECenFL

Very Nice vintage photo RGINN. I was wondering which one are you the toddler or the infant?

Nice to remember her today in your deeds and thoughts. Did you read Gypsys post ? Her Dad also died on Thanksgiving. Enjoy your post as always.
TnMtns

Why, I'm standin in front in my overalls, Nova.  Yeah, TnMountains, I read Gypsy's post a lot about her dad, but I can't respond to it.  We had to pull the plug on Mom.  They had that thing with the graph that goes up and down, showin the heartbeat.  It went beep, beep, beep, then beeeeeeeeeeeep.  A flat line, just like on the TV in those hospital shows.  I seen a lotta people die in my life, but it was kinda hard watchin my mom die, knowin that of all the fights I won, all the times I had cheated death, all the times I pulled out of a fix when there was no way I should have, there was not one single thing I could do.  That was the end of it.  Just a long flat line, and the nurse sayin she's gone.  The way of all things, I guess.

That is a hard place to be. I was raised by my grandmother, my mother was there but, not really (nother story) but, the hospital had me make the decision if my grandmother started to go should they or not .... hard place to be!

Why, I'm standin in front in my overalls, Nova.  Yeah, TnMountains, I read Gypsy's post a lot about her dad, but I can't respond to it.  We had to pull the plug on Mom.  They had that thing with the graph that goes up and down, showin the heartbeat.  It went beep, beep, beep, then beeeeeeeeeeeep.  A flat line, just like on the TV in those hospital shows.  I seen a lotta people die in my life, but it was kinda hard watchin my mom die, knowin that of all the fights I won, all the times I had cheated death, all the times I pulled out of a fix when there was no way I should have, there was not one single thing I could do.  That was the end of it.  Just a long flat line, and the nurse sayin she's gone.  The way of all things, I guess.

Sorry I did not see this sooner. My mom had an aortic arch replaced after many serious surgerys 5 years ago. My dad had been dead since I was 14. She took us fishing and  got us two boys involved in hunting and grew us into men. She was our rock. After the valve it blew her lower arch out  and she bled out.They put her on a machine to keep her alive. There was no coming back. I told them to let her go. Its hard but then its a hard life as well. I do not think you ever get over the loss Rginn but you learn to move on.
adios

great pic RGINN , the ole res runner looks like it was in pretty good shape even missin a cap lol ,mom looks like a proud woman .

Thanks for sharing the pic Bro 

And my mom is 19 years old in that pic.  And married.

Dont ever get rid of this pic! Its a classic! America was a different place back then. The suspenders, shoes, her dress, the car, and black and white. ITs classic Americana

Here is my 1959 mugshot (hint: I wasn't one yet) HAHAHA

Best-Mike

Thats a good one ! 

I GOT THAT, Gollum.  Is that your Dad's eye?  Good one!

 

Thank you UncleNick.  I shall not lose this pic.  Those are not suspenders, but overall straps.  Those are store bought.  I don't have shoes, because they didn't really buy shoes for the kids until winter time.  You went barefoot in the summer, which sucks in western Oklahoma because they have grassburs and goatheads.  They didn't have those in eastern Oklahoma where my folks were raised.  My Mom's clothes were hand made.  The blouse was store bought material.  The skirt is a combination of store bought material and flour sacks.  In those days they sold flour in 25 lb. sacks that were printed with different designs, and folks used the sacks to make clothes out of.  I had a lot of shirts made out of flour sacks when I first started school.  I got laughed at too, but no big deal to me.  When these clothes wore out, they would cut them up and the women would piece together quilts from them.  We still have a quilt made from pieces of the skirt my mom is wearing.  My grandkids have no conception of the world I grew up in, and when I grew up I could not possibly conceive of their world today, but it all probably balances out in the long run, you think?