“Who is WHO and What is NEW” | Grandma’s Stories

Sep 27th “Who is WHO and What is NEW”

There is just something extra… about this PHOTO… one thing for sure, is that it was taken at least a hundred years ago!

When I was a young teenager, I was going through some old PHOTOS that my Mother had in a box, and was just looking at all of the older relatives that were in our family, and asking questions.

Today, I am thinking that, when I was told who was who in these photos, I should have had a pencil and pad of paper to white down the information that my Mother was giving, instead of just thinking that I would be able to remember all of this information…forever.

So many of the photos in this box were taken, way before my time, and like this photo, the style of dress and the length of these dresses was way before me, even being born.

MOM 1920 002

Starting with that which I now know, in the center is my Grandmother to be Anne Smart Brady, and she had thirteen children, of which were two daughters, Irene and Marie.

In this photo is a very young “MARIE” standing on the right, and in a very white dress, and standing with the two in such very dark, maybe even black material and even with the white dots, little Marie’s dress just seems to fade out, as maybe the photographer did not have the best of camera for picture taking, that day.

If the very young Marie was born in 1900, then maybe she is in her teens on this picture, as I am guessing, that those long dresses that they are wearing, were still in Vogue.

The young lady on the left is the one that I cannot be sure, if I am remembering correctly or not, but she or another woman related to the Brady’s did play the piano, better than anyone that I can remember.

There was one person in the family, that would play the piano at the theater in those days, as the movies were silent and there was a need for music to correspond to the action going on, in the movie.

I do remember MOM telling me, that this person could play any kind of music, the place she would be seated at the piano was close enough for her to watch the movie and just as fast as those scenes would change… the music she played would keep the audience in the emotions of what they were seeing.

When the movies were finally equipped with their own sound system… those who had these jobs, that put LIVE and Death and every other kind of sound into those movies, that the people were watching… had to make changes, and put their talents in to other and maybe even better careers … as there were lots of changes going on, in those early years of 1900.

America was growing with all sorts of creative people, making and doing all kinds of new things, even inventing more, since there was such a demand for new and better ways, to do all kinds of things.