Photos from the Old OLD Days

Here are the scans I've been promising, of the old folks in the Old World, the Still Pretty New World, and the Rapidly Aging World. Happy New Year to everyone in whatever world you may find yourself, and enjoy the pictures.


Great-grandpa Joe Wasserman drives into Louisville, but what year? Who is with him in that old-time buggy? I think the woman with glasses in back looks like Aunt Rose Krenitz, Mimi Sarah's sister; could the woman next to Grandpa Joe be Aunt Bassie Uroper? Stan thinks the little girl sitting on the hood is Aunt Goldie! It's not impossible that the older woman in back is Joe's mother, Great-great-grandmother Fannie, who came from Russia with Uncle Nathan when Irvin was a boy. Since she came in 1925, and the little girl seems to be about 4 (Goldie Jean was born in 1923), the photo could be dated ca. 1927. If anyone has an idea, please contribute!

Jeanne in May 1948: is she going to her prom? Is this photo from Louisville or Syracuse?

Aunt Goldie Jean, Minnie Thompson, and Grandpa Irvin. Looks like prom night, again.

This 1904 photograph has Mimi's handwriting on the back:

Charles Levitch, B. 1894
Sarah Levitch Wasserman B. 1986.
Age 8

Jeanne told me this picture was of Joseph Wasserman as a child in Russia.

Grandpa Joe and Mimi Sarah, in front of their stone house on Kings Highway, Louisville, Kentucky, in the fifties.

March 14, 1965, from the Louisville Courier-Journal

The family gathers in the living room of 2545 Seneca Drive, as a staff photographer from the hometown paper takes a picture. This was Stan's bar mitzvah year; Rosanne was 12; David 9; Bobby 6. Jeanne was 34, and Irvin, with his wonderful V-neck sweater and Goya classical guitar, was almost 46.

Sunrise sunset, sunrise, sunset,
Swiftly flow the days,
Seedlings turn overnight to sunflowers,
Blossoming even as they gaze...
Sunrise sunset, sunrise, sunset!
Swiftly fly the years,
One season following another,
Laden with happiness and tears.

Our Old Kentucky Homes

2545 Kings Highway

Mimi Sarah and Poppa Joe's House

Mimi Bessie and Grandpa Morris's House

2545 Seneca Drive

3006 Hayfield Drive

Thanks to the street views on Google Maps!