Happy Father’s Day to dads (and their kids) everywhere, from all of us at Cladrite Radio!
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Past Paper: Stampix
As aficionados of all things vintage and ephemeral, we love coming across items we never knew existed, products we never knew were on the market.
When our beloved mother left us a few years ago, we found this item among the big box of old photos that she’d long promised to organize, but never quite got around to.
The images are not of Mom, though, or one of her relatives; it’s Dad’s younger sister, Aunt Marilyn. Each page of these tiny images is perforated, like a book of stamps, and like a book of stamps, they have adhesive on the back.
We’ve not researched it, but we wouldn’t be a bit surprised if a similar product is available today, from companies like Zazzle or Shutterfly, but we found this booklet of images particularly charming.
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Wish you were here
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Our mom, Karen Oakes Leveridge, would have been 79 years old today, if it were not for Alzheimer’s disease, that rat bastard. She beat cancer twice, but there’s no winning with Alzheimer’s.
We miss her dearly—even desperately, sometimes. She was a remarkable woman, and everything we are that’s worthwhile, we owe to her and my wonderful father.
This picture of them was taken around 1960 — no later, certainly, than 1964.
What a couple they were, and how grateful we are that Dad’s still going strong.