A photo of ? Van Kleinstad (my Dad) and a monkey. Must have been in a department store in 1960's Birmingham. There was obviously a photo stand with a chimp available that day.
Who knew that there's a National Day for everything? For instance: December 14 is National Monkey Day! And yes, we have a photo for that. This 1960s vintage photo features a Van Kleinstad boy with a monkey at a department store photo kiosk in Birmingham AL. I have never, ever, seen a monkey available for a department store photo. Have you?
The 1960's were years of great change: Protests (Vietnam War, Free Speech, Civil Rights), assassinations (JFK, Martin Luther King Jr, Bobby Kennedy), conflict (the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Cold War, ...
Those ancestors of ours had a sense of humor - amateurs and professionals!
Based on the solemn non-smiling expressions of our ancestors in old photos, you'd think they didn't have a sense of humor. Well these pictures prove we're wrong. Since it's inception, photography has ...