Jun 17
I like this picture so much I wanted to share it.
That’s my grandfather asleep against a fence at his home in Muncie, Indiana, in the late 1930s or early 1940s. We have a whole collection of him asleep in funny places.
That’s all… No point, just a picture.
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June 17th, 2006 at 2:06 pm
This is a very cool photo. I love vintage stuff, but it is especially nice when there’s a connection to the picture itself.
July 5th, 2006 at 11:45 pm
Hi! I clicked in via TUAW & their reference to your Tele-iSight rig- Very Nice! About ‘An old picture’ - you say you have a number of these shots of your grandfather *asleep* in funny places? Who is the someone so intent on capturing your grandad this way? I guess in other words, was this his idea? Who did he get to take the pictures??? I apologize for being so curious, not even knowing you at all, but I find the image & the idea behind it fascinating.
Certainly a unique & original idea. Your grandfather must have been quite a character.
July 6th, 2006 at 10:17 am
Grandpa was always one of those understated people who didn’t have much to say, but when he did say something, it was worth hearing. So in that sense, he was a bit of a character. He wasn’t laugh-out-loud funny, but he had a certain kind of quiet humor where you never knew what was going to come out of this mouth, and it was funny and pointed at the same time. We lost him about six years ago and sometimes I wish I could hear what he had to say about what’s happened since then.
Nobody really made it their mission to take pictures of grandpa asleep, he just always fell asleep in funny places. One picture that comes immediately to mind is from one of my brother’s birthdays. We kids were all doing our thing at the playground and grandpa was flat on his back on a picnic table snoozing away. Someone was alert enough to get a picture of it. There are pictures of him apparently on vacation in the 60s in funny positions on couches and lawn chairs taking a nap. Grandma has a story of him laying on the beach with the waves washing over him while the lifeguard tried to figure out what his deal was. I couldn’t tell you if he did it on purpose, but people with cameras seemed to notice.