Tuesday, August 07, 2012

From Buckles

08-06-2012 04;03;20PM by bucklesw1
08-06-2012 04;03;20PM, a photo by bucklesw1 on Flickr.

Dated 1922 this picture taken in San Antonio shows Grandmother Orton, my mother in the doorway and Aunts Grace and Nellie.
This had to do with a temporary trip South due to my Grandfather R.Z.'s failing health.
He died not long after due to an illness they called the "Conn" now known as Tuberculosis.
The reason for the monkey being included is unknown......Show People!

Posted by Buckles at 8/07/2012 05:14:00 AM

9 comments:

Mike Naughton said...

Tuberculosis was known as consumption, con is just a shortened variation.
Perhaps in polite company folks didn't refer to the medical term. I remember a time when people didn't use the word cancer, they had various code names.

07 August, 2012 07:27
John Herriott said...

They were called in those days as "house cars". There was one like that that sat in my grandmothers backyard for many years after being on the circus. I was a Model T truck body built on. Us cousins played in it as kids and I guess it finally went for junk. My mother told of driving one with us babies going around hair pin turns in cOLORADO. Yes in those days my dad had to drive the "Bull truck". Seems like things have not changed that much.johnny

07 August, 2012 08:35
Chic Silber said...

Conn was the shortened form of

"consumption" a dreaded disease

This appears to be a home built

with limited driver visibility

Is that a pup tent on the right

07 August, 2012 09:45
Chic Silber said...

Although she probably used tempera

"Crayola" would have been a good

nickname for your mom

07 August, 2012 09:47
Chic Silber said...

Hey Mike I need my tuba back

07 August, 2012 09:51
Ole Whitey said...

Chic: Speaking of limited visibility, There was an old time tent-show magician out of McDade, Texas, named James A Morrison. He and his wife and ten (count 'em) ten children trouped their little tent show for many years.

Mr Morrison told me when he built his first housecar in about 1914 he took the glass out of an 8 by 10 picture frame and installed it in front of the driver's seat.

He couldn't see right or left let alone behind him, yet he recalled driving right through Houston, out Main Street and on to Victoria without a mishap.

07 August, 2012 10:28
Dick Flint said...

Saranac Lake in upstate New York was an important town for the residency and treatment of TB patients (my grandmother was there for a few years before her 1926 death). There were lots of cottages where patients lived in groups including one exclusively for circus and for theatre people. TB was once so common (but a bit hush-hush) that kindred groups raised money to support these cottages for their ailing brethren.
Dick Flint
Baltimore

07 August, 2012 17:41
Cindy Potter said...

Back then there was no regulation on laundering costumes. They would use a costume and hang it back in the wardrobe then it would be worn by someone else, spreading their germs which is why the theatre crowd had a higher incidence of TB.
:-)
Cindy Potter

08 August, 2012 15:13
Chic Silber said...

I was wondering just how far back

Crayola was started so I checked

Crayola crayons were invented by

Edwin Binney and C Harold Smith

The brand's first box of eight

crayons made its debut in 1903

The box of crayons cost a nickel

The factory in Easton PA has tours

08 August, 2012 19:12

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