This is one of the many interesting old photos I've found as I go through the boxes and folders my mother kept. I have never seen this one before; so far as I know, it's the only existing picture of the three-person Delany family, consisting of my mother (Dorothy) and her parents (A.G. and Erie Delany). Mother is around 4 or 5 in this picture, I guess, so it must have been taken in around 1925. It seems to say a lot about what a family trip to the beach was like in 1925, doesn't it? And, of course, about how rapidly life has changed in the last 85 years... My grandmother used to remark that when she was little, they only had horses, wagons, and trains for transportation. Her family acquired a car when she was a young adult. And, before she died, she was traveling on airplanes.
In the foreground of the picture you can see the shadow of the photographer, apparently under one of those hoods they used to use. I wonder who he was? My grandfather looks pretty suspicious, and I don't think he liked producing a pose, on demand. I've never liked doing that, either.
I hope they had a good time at the beach.
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