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What A Little Photo Restoration Can Lead To - The Story of Martha Jane Atkinson

June 26, 2016

I knew when I decided to restore some old photos that it would be nice to see the image improved and get a closer look at the faces. I never thought it would lead to travel, twins, abandonment and death! This is the story of Martha Atkinson.

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Cruising into 90 with his sweet ride.

Social distancing is not just about your health. My dad’s 90th birthday is just over 2 months away, and I’d really like to celebrate it with him. He has so many more stories to share.... For my dad, and yours, and all the parents and gran

“Whose Getting What?
Judging from the smiling visage of Mr. Atkinson (left), you’d think he was receiving the silverware being distributed above. But, he was merely doing the distributing himself as Dr. Harold Sweezey of First Baptist acc

Me: On the back of the envelope these were in someone wrote "Madge 9, Joyce 9, Lois 9, Innyce 4" Any idea why? ⠀
Dad: Nope. But that does look like my writing not my mother’s.⠀
Me: Maybe you made them all copies or something. Do you

Easter Greetings! from Jennette to Winifred in 1911 (& Dad and me in 2018)⠀
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Postcard by E. Nash.⠀
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Dad: You think that is me?⠀
Me: Yep. ⠀
Dad: I don’t think that’s me, I didn’t have that much hair.⠀
Me: Sure you did, before you had kids. ⠀
Dad: I’m not sure. And I don't recognize the girl.⠀
Me: Well, it looks like you and t

Dad: What am I taking picture of this stupid bird for?⠀
Me: Oh, everyone takes pictures of birds on a wire because it looks cool.⠀
Dad: It’s a seagull on a pole. ⠀
Me: Maybe you thought it was interesting.⠀
Dad: I don’t know what I though

Dad: Maynard Viot, he’s the guy on the end on the right, and this guy (on the far left), this is Lenny Hesterman, and the guy in the white shirt is Mickey, but I don’t remember his last name. And…who is this guy in the black shirt?

Dad: This is the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone Park, I think. ⠀
Me: Well which is it, the Grand Canyon or Yellowstone Park. ⠀
Dad: It’s the Grand Canyon OF Yellowstone Park.⠀
Me: Aren’t those two different places?⠀
Dad: No, I don’t th

Me: What can you tell me about these kids?⠀
Dad: Never seen them before. ⠀
Me: There is a note stuck to this, “Group 1 - 5 Year Old - Summer 1951 - Ethel Upwall Teacher “ Ring any bells? ⠀
Dad: Looks like they are wearing Indian hats with

Dad: I made one of those airplanes the other one I do not recognize, looks like maybe it has a gasoline motor. One is a rubber band airplane.⠀
Me: How many planes do you think you made when you were a kid?⠀
Dad: The first ones I made weren’t th

Me: This is from the same batch as the MIA Dance Festival, recognize anyone?⠀
Dad: I think the girl standing in the white shirt holding the watermelon is Connie, my dance partner, but I can’t identify the event. ⠀
Me: Were you camping? ⠀
Dad: W

Dad: That’s from the MIA Dance Festival at the University of Utah. ⠀⠀
Me: Why did you have two different suits?⠀⠀
Dad: They are not suits.⠀⠀
Me: Costumes?⠀⠀
Dad: No. ⠀⠀
Me: Tuxedos?⠀⠀
Dad: Well, yes. ⠀⠀
Me: Isn’t a tuxedo the same thing a

Dad: Well, that's me. I’m trying to identify the fish they look like trout… and that is home in the backyard but...the only place that we went fishing that I would have fish like that is Strawberry Reservoir. And I would not remember hav

Me: How about these lovely people? ⠀
Dad: Oh that is easy, that’s Elmer Don and Marilyn Sharples. They are Irene’s kids. And they have a brother whose name does not come to me, he’s deceased now. Oh and that’s Jack. ⠀
Me: I re

Me: Dad, can you tell me the names of all the kids in this class photo?⠀⠀
Dad: Are you kidding me?⠀⠀
Me: I never joke about photos. ⠀⠀
Dad: (giving me the side eye, then sighing heavily as he grabs the magnifying glass) Sheesh! Well, that looks like

Dad: That is Monte Archibald.⠀⠀
Me: Both these photos are of Monte?⠀⠀
Dad: Well yes - who else would be that skinny and ugly? ⠀⠀
Me: Well I don’t know, I never met Monte. ⠀⠀
Dad: No you never did and I don’t know what happened to him. May

Me: So, who’s this lovely lady?
Dad: That’s Velene Bern, I think, but it was Abbott when she married. Her and Malissa used to come up and visit us and we’d go to SaltAir at the Great Salt Lake.
Me: Do you mean Melissa Gribble, your

Me: Recognize this kid? ⠀
Dad: Well of course that’s me and apparently the dog is my dog Jack. ⠀
Me: There are actually two dogs. ⠀
Dad: You think there are two dogs? Well, I see my hand down there, yep, that’s a dog but I don’t rem

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