Old Man and his TV

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by Reece

People throwing away family pictures: hard to understand. In an old house about 15 years ago I came across a whole big box full of pictures, negatives, albums, letters, etc. dating from the early 1900's up to about WWII. People left and abandoned a lot of stuff including this. ... an antiques dealer. He told me that lots of people abandon stuff like this at estate sales and he ends up with it. I sent it to him. Finding something like that kind of breaks your heart that nobody cared about their past and the people that got them here.

I've heard it said that there's two groupings of deceased people, the first are people that still have living friends and immediate relatives whose lives partly overlaped in time, and the older grouping, who everyone who ever knew or interacted with them are also dead. Like the guy who was the janitor at Independence Hall when they wrote the USA Declaration of Independance.

It's likely the pictures are of people newly in this older grouping.