Comments on: Square America

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 01:31:10 +0000

This is my new favorite website. These photos are great, and I love the ones that have things written on them.
And, sometimes, these photos make it to garage sales or eBay because the people die without relatives, so they get sold in estate sales or left in the attic, and the next owner finds them.

By: Mandie

Mandie — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 01:01:44 +0000

I enjoy Jones Soda for the pictures more than for the drink itself – you always wonder the stories behind the photo

By: Maggie

Maggie — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:18:35 +0000

It’s amazing how much you can learn about a person by the things they save. My grandfather has every note my grandmother ever wrote to him while he was traveling. She’d scribble something down on scratch paper and tuck it into his luggage before he traveled. He can also remember just about every date they ever went on. But he can’t remember what he did with his Purple Heart.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:28:02 +0000

I find piles of old photos and old photo albums very sad. All those people are most likely unknown to the current generations. I guess we will be unknown two or three generations from now.

By: Tdave

Tdave — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:39:32 +0000

My grandmother had Alzheimers. In her dementia she was throwing things out. There were pictures, such as my grandfather at age 6 in 1911, that I wanted. I don’t know if my uncle(an obnoxious jerk) has them or if they were thrown out.

By: Brook

Brook — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:28:42 +0000

I went to a yard sale once and found an old photo album from the 60’s. Upon inspection of the photos, I found 2 pictures of a 5 year old looking at a Playboy magazine. Amazing what you can find at a yard sale, isn’t it?

By: lindsay m

lindsay m — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:50:18 +0000

my dad got an old photo of his mom pushing a baby carriage from his cousin after his mom died. the cousin thought it was him in the carriage, but when he looked at the back it was dated three years before he was born. that is how he found out he hadn’t been an only child at all. he had a sister who died as a baby before he was born. his mom was so devastated she would never talk about it to anyone, and the next generation of the family didn’t even know.

so i am a big fan of old photos too. you never know what you might learn!

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:29:52 +0000

I could use that “instant childhood”. There are hardly any old pictures of my family since my house burned down when I was 17. Learn from this: always get extra prints, negatives, or discs and share.

By: Sid Morrison

Sid Morrison — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:18:45 +0000

It’s always sad to me that people clean out their deceased relative’s house and pitch all this stuff without much regard for other relatives (or future generations) who would find the images priceless.