Where Psychology, Genealogy, and History Converge
“If you don’t recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.”
Charles J. Anderson (1857-1936) of Minneapolis, Minnesota in his grocery store at 2600 Bryant Ave. North. His store was robbed three times in two years.
This old-timey store photo is labeled “Herbert Kalt” on the back. Interesting details include a young African American man and an WWI era 1918 Red Cross poster.
Isidor Selvin (1886-1983) was a prominent clothier in both Bingham, Utah and Saginaw, Michigan. This is his story.
This is the only first hand account I have ever heard about my 2nd great grandmother, Clara Rachel (Miles) (Myers) Sears (1875-1934).
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The grocery store of Charles Boylan (1853-1931) at 1011 Mt. Vernon in Columbus, Ohio. This photos was likely taking in the lat 1890s or early 1900s.
This photograph shows J. Everett Baughman standing in his store, Peninsular Net & Twine Co., at 306 W. Fortune St. in Tampa, Florida.
Here is an old-timey photo of “Lamb’s Bird Store” in Detroit, Michigan. It is one of several pet stores that was connected to a Lamb family with roots in Detroit as early as 1914.
This man is most likely Emil Krone (1858-1943), a watchmaker and jeweler, in front of his store at 1028 Central Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio in 1896.
A few years ago I posted about Frank Zuzek (1904-1981), the “Voice of the Detroit River”. Frank was married to my great aunt Viola (Pawlowski) Zuzek (1906-1983). The Detroit Free Press recently reran a 1978 article describing Frank’s storied career as a dispatcher for the J. W. Westcott Co. Here is an update to that story with some new photos.
A beautiful 1939 old times story photo outside the Riverside Fish Co. of East Peoria, Illinois.
My grandfather, Michael John Hanley Jr. (1924-2015), received letters from U.S. Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan. He also attended a White House reception hosted by President Ford on April 8, 1975.
Chalmer Peters (1898-1980), his wife Gretta, and friends of McDowell County, West Virginia at an unknown store.
Joseph Michael Ridilla (1877-1961) standing behind the Dawson House Bar in Dawson, Pennsylvania (1914).
Here is another addition to the growing collection of Old-Timey Store Photos. Three well dressed gentlemen stand in front of the counter of a general store. It MAY be connected to Henry Clay Stimple (1899-1955) in New Castle, PA.
The image is incredibly crisp and shows a group of what looks to be teenagers from the 1920s.
This early 1900’s antique photo shows a group of men standing outside of “Lemke’s Cafe”. I believe it to be the cafe, tavern, and hotel of proprietor Walter Lemke (1871-1940) of Harsens Island, Michigan.
This image likely shows Herbert John Kleehammer (1890-1990) at his first job in 1913 at a hardware store in Detroit, Michigan.
A cigar chomping butcher, knife in hand, stands behind the counter of his store in Snyder, Oklahoma in January of 1925. Some great old-timey details in this photo!
This photo shows the interior of a vintage shoe store in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is a 5x7 image on a 8x10 mat. The photographer appears to be an F.B. Brown at 901 4th St. North.
This antique store photo find shows a group of men, likely members of the Apostles Club in Ann Arbor, Michigan probably around 1900. The home stood at 1218 South University.
James J. Harrington (1892-1942) is my 1st cousin 3x removed. He was a life long resident of Butte, Montana. His parents came from the Beara Peninsula in County Cork, Ireland.
All of these details offer compelling evidence that this photo from 1914 is of the A. L. Lockwood Bakery and Ice Cream Parlor at 1225 Park Ave. in Oneida Square, Utica, New York.
Here is the first in a series of letters written from “Carrie” of Barre, Vermont to Adolph B. Lane of Hanover, New Hampshire in 1900.
This old-timey store photograph shows a tailor in his shop with two boys, possibly his sons. I believe it to be a photo of Joseph S. Pati (1894-1981) and his sons, Samuel, and Mario of New Kensington, Pennsylvania.
This is my 1st cousin 4 times removed, Epaminondas Tsardoulias (born 1863), and his wife Marianthe Mavrogeorgou Tsardoulias (1883-1960). They were married in 1902 on the island of Samos, Greece perhaps in the village of Mytilinioi.
Emil Muenzel (1866-1939), a German immigrant who settled in Donken, Michigan in the Upper Peninsula, was married to my 1st cousin 4x removed, Martha Zenner Muenzel (1868-1960).
A mystery photo identified (perhaps incorrectly) as Isaac Benson Chapman (1888-1952) of Columbus, Ohio some time in the very early 1900s.