My room, 40 years ago
Dec. 18th, 2008 07:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ashetlandponyThese are pictures of my room when I was 13-14. On the wall are my favorite memorabilia from my mother's and my trip to the U.K. and Ireland in 1967.
This is the only picture I have of my long-lost Pendle witch (dangling from the lamp at left), which was given to me as a present by a nice, old Lancastrian woman whose name I cannot recall. One day, I came home from school and the witch was gone. I always suspected our strict Baptist cleaning lady for stealing her, though it also could have been my mom. Or maybe they were working in cahoots. *shrugs* Whatever, I liked that witch and I was pissed that someone took her.
There's my original clock radio. I would get my own stereo for Xmas later that year, but from 1965-1968, this radio was my only personal music source. On the wall, I recognize a bill for some very nice Roman coins that my mother bought me in London, a couple of items from the Regent Palace Hotel, a book entitled "The Royal Line of Succession" which is a genealogy of English monarchs dating back to Cerdic, the 1st King of Wessex, an old £1 note, and, unrelated to England, etc., a couple of photos of my dad when he was a boy.
*smiles* Keyboard and monitor were not inter-operable back then.
And finally, here's me in my room. Judging by the glasses I'm wearing and my 8th grade mathematics textbook there, this was probably taken in Spring 1968.
Now it takes an entire house to keep all my stuff! Ah, for the simpler times... ^^
This is the only picture I have of my long-lost Pendle witch (dangling from the lamp at left), which was given to me as a present by a nice, old Lancastrian woman whose name I cannot recall. One day, I came home from school and the witch was gone. I always suspected our strict Baptist cleaning lady for stealing her, though it also could have been my mom. Or maybe they were working in cahoots. *shrugs* Whatever, I liked that witch and I was pissed that someone took her.
There's my original clock radio. I would get my own stereo for Xmas later that year, but from 1965-1968, this radio was my only personal music source. On the wall, I recognize a bill for some very nice Roman coins that my mother bought me in London, a couple of items from the Regent Palace Hotel, a book entitled "The Royal Line of Succession" which is a genealogy of English monarchs dating back to Cerdic, the 1st King of Wessex, an old £1 note, and, unrelated to England, etc., a couple of photos of my dad when he was a boy.
*smiles* Keyboard and monitor were not inter-operable back then.
And finally, here's me in my room. Judging by the glasses I'm wearing and my 8th grade mathematics textbook there, this was probably taken in Spring 1968.
Now it takes an entire house to keep all my stuff! Ah, for the simpler times... ^^
