Here I am! I'm sitting on my grandfather's lap. His name was Stanley Elmer Allen ( 1904 - 1982). This photo was taken in the living room of my grandparents house on Roosevelt Avenue in Hamilton, Massachusetts. I remember this house very well. It looks like it was Christmas time because of all the cards taped to the wall behind Grampy. I was just about fourteen months old.
I tried to enlarge this photo to see what I was holding in my hands. It looks like a carton of Salem brand cigarettes. How times have changed! Can you imagine gifting someone a carton of cigarettes today? Or letting your baby play with them? I remember now that Grampy was a smoker. I have his front porch rocker now, and it has cigarette burns and nicotine stains on it. Yuck! Those are memories that I never think of until I saw the carton of cigarettes in this photo.
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "1962, Sitting on Grampy's Lap!", Nutfield Genealogy, posted April 29, 2016, ( http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/04/1962-sitting-on-grampys-lap.html: accessed [access date]).
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