I think this outdoor barber shot was taken during the Oklahoma Land Rush. My great-grandmother (1875-1967) used to say, "That was when half the landless white trash in Texas ran off to Oklahoma in hope of free land. Good riddance!" She was a judgemental old bird, but she was also a suffragette and a career woman when such was almost unheard of in the Southwest.
Lovin' your great-grandmother.
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An utterly amazing woman. She ran the camera and photo developing counter in the town's only department store. Her collection of photos played a big part in my interest in vintage photography. She drove herself to work in a buggy until they invented cars, and then she was the first woman to drive one in that part of Texas. She stood on the courthouse steps on her lunch break with a sign that said "Votes for Women." When a yahoo threw a horse turd at her, she pulled a pearl handled revolver out of her purse and shouted, "The next son of a bitch that throws horse shit at me gets a bullet." How I loved that woman.
DeleteJerry: I never understood the Oklahoma Land Rush. Was land ownership in that time period free of property taxes.? Because what good is land ownership if you can not afford to keep it.?
DeleteThere were property taxes, but they were low by modern standards.
DeleteThis really good series is made better with quotes from your grandmother. Great work, Jerry.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Leroy!
DeleteThe matriarchs of a family are its soul.
ReplyDeleteIn 1846 my ancestors left Ireland to escape the great famine at the behest of their grandma matriarch and headed to the then territory of California. Across the Atlantic by sailing ship to the Caribbean coast of Central America, overland to the Pacific Coast by stagecoach to another sailing ship that brought them to San Francisco….:)
Interesting. My ancestors got kicked out of Scotland for being religious dissidents.
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