Thursday, February 14, 2013

Herbie the Love Bug

Happy Valentine's Day! This is the last set of images of Sally and Larry at Disneyland. I hope you all have someone you can share Disneyland with! First up is a view of Sally on the exciting and thrilling Motor Boat Cruise. I hope she is ready for the thrills that await her on this attraction.

Sally and Larry on the Snow White attraction. Too bad is not a slight angle so you could see the mural.

The next two images are of Sally and Larry posing by their Volkswagen Bug in the parking lot.

Some have asked if I knew if Larry and Sally ended up marrying each other. The rest of the photographs in the album are of Sally as a baby and as a young girl. The only photograph that shows an older couple is this one from about 9 years later. It looks like Larry and Sally...

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5 comments:

  1. thepicklebarrel7:43 AM

    what a cool series!

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  2. Brian Fies9:00 AM

    Aww. It's funny how attached you can get to strangers in photos, witnessing a thin but intimate slice of their lives. I like Larry and Sally and am very happy to see that, no matter what happened after that last photo was taken, they stayed together and were happy for at least a while. It still makes one wonder why one of their kids doesn't have your album, but that's all we're ever going to know about Larry and Sally, and that's all right.

    Reminds me: I was once in an antique store and found a turn-of-the-century wedding certificate from the other side of the country with inset photos of the bride and groom. There was enough information on the piece that I thought I'd take a stab at tracking down their descendants. I contacted the town librarian, who didn't know anything about the couple but said there were people all over the county with their unusual last name, obviously related. So I went back to the antique shop, bought the certificate, and mailed it to hang in the library. The librarian was ecstatic, and it touched me to send something like that back where it belonged.

    Which is to say, I wish Sally and Larry, or their kids, could see these posts. But sharing it with us is the next best thing.

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  3. Anonymous1:34 PM

    What a fascinating journey this has been. It answers some questions and creates more. I couldn't have said it better than Brian. It was like opening a time capsule and wishing there was more.

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  4. Monorail Mike1:27 PM

    I really hope these were donated photos and not just thrown away.

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  5. Anonymous9:14 AM

    Simple math tells me that the kids are now entering their mid-30s. That's older than Sally and Larry were during their visit to the Park. It's very possible Sally and Larry are grandparents. Time flies. I'm in S&L's age group and sometimes 1970 seems just a few years ago. This certainly reminided me that isn't so.

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