This is my fourth year working on this year-long 52 Ancestors in
52 Weeks prompt, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow. I will write each week in one of
my two blogs, either Mam-ma’s Southern Family or at My Trails into the Past. I
have enjoyed writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways.
I don’t have a lot of photos taken in the kitchen, but that was
where everyone in our family hung out. It was a big room, with a cooktop island
in the center. A large table to hold eight people on one side and knotty pine
cabinets on the other side. Here is the kitchen side. We were celebrating a
birthday. A banner can be partially seen hanging above the island. The
countertops were red Formica, the stove was electric, and we had a portable
dishwasher in the center.
The dining side had vinyl wallpaper with white bricks. Lots of
doodads hung on the walls. I think a lot of these items were found by my mother
at antique and junk stores. You can see the café curtains hanging in the corner
windows.
These shots were taken in 1979 as we celebrated my brother,
Steve’s birthday. Our house was painted olive green and white and the door to
the kitchen from outside had paned windows at top and a country look on the
bottom.
Here is a shot of my mother in the kitchen side preparing hors d’oeuvres. Although the snacks were placed in the living room to snack on, people just gravitated to the kitchen. Maybe it was the odors of great cooking. Maybe it was because it was brighter with the white wallpaper than the knotty pine walls of the living room. Likely it was because that’s where Mom was hanging out preparing the food.
Later, my parents moved across the street because the state
purchased their property to widen the freeway. This kitchen still had the 40s
look as when it was built. There were white cabinets with red trim.
I wish I had more photos of our kitchen. We tended to take more
photos of each other in the living room.
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