Old Man and his TV

[jstout66]

I tried to track down these people as well. They lived in Aberdeen,SD (altho pix were at a store in Nebraska)
Here is the final picture I saved from the "Demmers"

[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.

[stromberg6]

Interesting thread about discarded family pictures. Many years ago, I was going through an outbuilding in Rockville CT that was part of the former property of a television pioneer and amateur radio op who ran a ham TV station using pro and home brew NTSC color equipment from the highest peak in town. Not much left, but I did pick up a few pics that appear to be family photos. His name was Al Denson, and he had a few patents on TV circuitry. The vandals had pretty much destroyed any electronics, but there wasn't much left anyway.