Growing Up In Poverty

I know what it's like, though the poverty I lived in was a bit more genteel than this.  It's not a  pleasant way to grow up.  I hit the color restoration setting for the bottom shot for something a bit closer to what the image looked like before the inevitable color shift started.

The Cure House

The Kurhaus at Cadmario, Switzerland is still there and still in business.  Unfortunately, I was unable to find out when it was built.  There's scaffolding and a date on this print.  12-IV-25, the 12th of April, 1925.  Repairs or construction, I wasn't able to determine.  Visiting the spa is fairly expensive now, but in 1925?  I suspect it wasn't cheap then, either, as the wealthy of Europe took the waters to cure what ailed them, and after the horrors of World War 1 and the Spanish Flu epidemic, I suspect people felt in need of a curative rest.

Three Ladies, One Guy on a Bench

I think the cloche hats date this to the 1920's.  I bought this photo here, in California, but going by the trees and flat landscape I'd bet on the mid-west.  During the great depression hundreds of thousands of people made the trek to the west coast.  I can't help but wonder if this photo and many of the others I find here came to L.A. via the back of an overloaded car driven by a formally middle class family.

The Post War European Trip Collection-Souvenir Snapshots 8

The last of Gloria Lee's souvenir photos, but not the last of this collection.  Click on The Post War European Trip Collection for more.

The Post War European Trip Collection-Souvenir Snapshots 7

Top and bottom, still in Paris.  The rest seem to be some sort of country estate.  Some sort of royal palace?  Click on The Post war European Trip Collection in labels for more good stuff.

The Post War European Trip Collection-Souvenir Snapshots 6

More from Paris and some unknown locations.  Click on The Post War European Trip Collection, etc., etc., etc.

The Post War European Trip Collection-Souvenir Snapshots 5

Gloria Lee's continued travels.  The first three photos keep us in Paris, image number four, perhaps, and the number five isn't.  My first thought was somewhere on the Riviera, but then I remembered that she and her tour group spent a lot of time in Switzerland, a country with a fair number of really large lakes. 

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