On Sepia Saturday today, the posted prompt suggests the theme of "Three Men," and I have that, but they're "Little Men."
Here they are, my three oldest brothers, sitting on an old wheelbarrow, and as the caption describes, they are Dennis, Dan, and Mike (L-R.) I would know that yard anywhere: it was the backyard of my great-aunt and uncle's house, on the south shore of Long Island, NY. The road that they lived on led down to the Great South Bay, and the house was on a canal dug in from the Bay. In 1947, my parents were living in the Bronx, and often visited Tante and Uncle Peter. In the 1950's, the family moved to within a mile of them, and three more children were born (including me) so I visited too.
The house was a cottage style, with one story. Behind the boys are the windows of the back closed-in porch. On the left is the door to the garage. We usually ate on the back porch, at a table set under the windows.
Uncle Peter kept his cabin cruiser moored in the canal. He also had wooden killi traps in the water, tied to the deck, and my younger brothers and I checked them the first thing when we arrived for a visit, hauling them up from the water to see how many had been caught. The little fish were used as bait for fishing.
We had many happy visits there until Tante and Uncle Peter sold the house and moved to Florida in the 1970's.
Great photo and good memories. The back yard and house look familiar to many of us growing up in the 50s.
ReplyDeleteWe also had a closed in back porch - we called them sleepouts in Australia. It sounds as if you had german ancestry - my old aunts were all called "Tante". Great memories.
ReplyDelete"Sleepouts" - that's a good name for them. No German ancestry - this aunt was on the Italian side. Perhaps the term came from her brother-in-law, who was Walloon. I like to hear the "titles" used for different relatives, and am tickled when I learn that others - in Australia! - used the same ones!
DeleteLovely evocative memories of your happy childhood at your great aunt and uncle’s house.
ReplyDeleteSounds like an ideal place to spend some happy visiting hours!
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