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TGByrom t1_ja62drq wrote

Damn, why does everyone in the past seem so attractive

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WomanNotAGirl t1_ja62jtc wrote

Sabah Istanbul meaning Morning Istanbul. That’s the name of photographer.

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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.

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csomething42 t1_ja77lwh wrote

Hot mama! 🥵 She kind of looks like The Black Dahlia.

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Howwasthatdoneagain t1_ja77tip wrote

I loved that style of photography. My mother-in-law had photos like that. Hand coloured. Simply beautiful style.

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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.

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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.

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NickNoraCharles t1_jabmeku wrote

I hope your memories of her are even more beautiful than this photo 💌

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