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Magnet50 OP t1_ja67lqs wrote
She was.
TGByrom t1_ja62drq wrote
Damn, why does everyone in the past seem so attractive
anotheroutlaw t1_ja67nsp wrote
They didn’t eat so much processed food and their daily lives typically had fewer sedentary hours.
Magnet50 OP t1_ja67id4 wrote
She was a beautiful woman.
robotech021 t1_ja6wohi wrote
They also look more mature for their age. For example, this 18 year old woman looks like she is mid to late twenties, IMO.
jyotipch t1_ja73xp0 wrote
Only the attractive ones are photographed?
karmaisourfriend t1_ja61k3m wrote
WOW!
Clazzo524 t1_ja6tto0 wrote
Very lovely.
Howwasthatdoneagain t1_ja77tip wrote
I loved that style of photography. My mother-in-law had photos like that. Hand coloured. Simply beautiful style.
Magnet50 OP t1_ja7nlqg wrote
I used to do black & white portraits that I would hand tint, using oil-based colored pencils and oil paint on fiber-based paper. Intricate and painstaking work.
conspicuousconundrum t1_ja7tmmj wrote
Pretty woman, but those eyes are judging me somehow.
karenjs t1_ja7xg2z wrote
You didn’t get away with any mischief as a child, did you? She looks like nothing would get past her radar! Wonderful photo.
Magnet50 OP t1_ja9005t wrote
He parents were fairly well-to-do and she was raised in a house with servants. Going from that to a small apartment in Queens was a shock. In Saudi Arabia my father was ‘senior staff’ and we had a servant named Sebastian who practically raised me. She knew what went on but didn’t hover.
WomanNotAGirl t1_ja62jtc wrote
Sabah Istanbul meaning Morning Istanbul. That’s the name of photographer.
Magnet50 OP t1_ja67fy5 wrote
She was born in Izmir, Turkey. Her younger brother was sickly so she was sent to Istanbul to live with grandparents. Her parents and brother moved to Istanbul later.
She was accepted into Robert’s College, which, despite its name is a 5 year high school. The first year is intensive English and the remaining 4 years are taught in English, except for a Turkish history class. She already spoke French (spoken in the house), Spanish, Turkish and Italian and as I learned many years later, about 200 words in Greek.
She went to work for the manager of the Pan Am station at Ataturk Airport and in 1948/49 a Pan Am radio-officer/navigator asked her for an appointment with her boss. She asked the reason and he said he needed an advance on his salary. She suggested that he budget better and sent him away. On the next trip he had he asked her out. Their first 5 dates were chaperoned by her aunts.
About a year later, they married in three ceremonies, one in a Catholic Church, one Turkish civil ceremony and one ceremony at the American consulate.
She went to live Queens, New York with my father and had a job as a simultaneous Turkish/French/Spanish/English translator until my older brother came along.
My father was by then flying for Aramco Airlines before Aramco offered him a significant new role in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, which is where I was born.
csomething42 t1_ja77lwh wrote
Hot mama! 🥵 She kind of looks like The Black Dahlia.
NickNoraCharles t1_jabmeku wrote
I hope your memories of her are even more beautiful than this photo 💌
Ordinary_Carpet_2274 t1_ja5zuyo wrote
Classic beauty .. did you Dad fill her with Stuffing ?
Own-Tooth4816 t1_ja5z1hs wrote
She's gorgeous!