Usually I don’t do too much with them, but sometimes I will have them matted and framed and then they spring to life, sweetness on display and a moment in time now set up under lights and on my walls. The photo leading this blog post is a snapshot of an area of staging from a recent listing. That dog was an anonymous photo I had matted and framed. I have many like this! But altogether I have a couple hundred, so they’re mostly unframed. To me they’re just fun to look at and can be very calming, or sometimes sort of sad.

This weekend on a Mother’s Day outing on Saturday with my mom, I bought nine new (to me) anonymous photos from a small boutique store in Solana Beach. I have used this store before to purchase staging items for my real estate business and love its vintage feel with plenty of “shabby chic” style thrown in for good measure. The owner has so many wonderful older things. Very girly! It’s called Out of the Blue.

In a vintage suitcase, torn out of someone’s album, was a huge stack of anonymous photos of the same girl and what I believe to be her sister. And plenty with her mom, too. Being on a Mother’s Day outing, I thought how fun and fantastic it would be if I bought some, scanned them and put them out to the universe to see if anyone at all recognizes either of the girls or the mom.

They are color and black and white, probably shot on a Kodak Brownie camera. There is no date on any of them but some in the suitcase had dates like 1955, and I thought they were all the same family. There were hundreds of images and most seemed to have the same pink corners from someone’s photo album.

These images were individually torn out of an album or albums, put in a bunch and sold off somewhere for this store’s proprietor to pick up somewhere (I didn’t ask her).

The back of some says Kodak VELOX Paper, and that exact wording was used on Kodak papers only in the late 1950s and early 1960s. So the timeline makes sense.

It appears from one of the outside shots that they are probably in Southern California.

So please help me find this family. Do you these girls or their mom? If you do, let me know. I will take it from there. Based on these and the others in the suitcase, I think these girls had a great life. The little girl with the brown hair in a pageboy cut may be close to 60-ish today.

Thank you!

And with this process was the offering of the Facebook prospectus and the completion of a client profile questionnaire. The prospectus is normal by most standards, but with a higher degree of playfulness. See for yourself (it should open in a new window).

Facebook prospectus

Of most importance and why I am submitting this to you is Mark Zuckerberg’s letter to investors which begins on Page 84. I found it to be very genuine and almost sweet.

Let the craziness begin!