1960s
My grandparents a few weeks before their wedding in 1961.
There's a bun in the oven in this pic 🤫 ( My uncle )
This is one of my favorite picture of them. At the beach in Lacanau, near Bordeaux in France.
EDIT: Wow, thank you all ! I really didn't expect this to blow up like that, it feels really good to share their story here, I didn't realize how much I needed to talk about them, kinda feels like a little therapy ngl.
Thank you all for your thoughts, kind words or being curious about these two amazing people 🩷
The dude looks proper passionate here! It almost made me blush. This is like a smokin’ hot scene from a movie of that era! Reminds me a bit of the Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster tryst on the beach in From Here To Eternity.
My grandfather was born something like 1 week or two before WW2 started in 1939, he really met his father at about 5 years old. My grandma was a bit older and she remembered more stuff from that time such as the rations and scarcity of food. That thing, plus going bankrupt at some point with my grandpa deeply marked her in her life and she always had her fridge full stuffed to the brim with fresh product and would cook us amazing food ! Sorry for the ramble, this picture and questions just brings back a lot of stories or memories x)
They really went through it all, from rags to riches, I'd say. Happily married, 3 children, 8 grandchildren, and now 6 great-grandchildren.
They were incredibly close, almost symbiotic, very complicit idk how to say in english, they could never stay apart for very long. My grandmother Jacqueline was an amazing gardener and cook. Her garden from the house I've known was huge. She talked to her plants, complimented them, she always said it would help them grow better. She had entire folders of pictures of the flowers from her garden throught the years.
They both had a restaurant when my mom and her siblings were little, but it kinda failed and they lost pretty much everything. They had to go to Paris to work in hotels as housekeepers and electricians, away from their children for almost two years, just to rebuild what they'd lost. It was probably the hardest time of their lives, my grandma used to say they sometimes had to make soup with edible plants and flowers they picked in public parks or nearby forests, like dandelions. But they managed to turn things around. My grandfather Albert eventually got a job with a major electrical company and later started his own business.
Much later, in the late 80s, my grandma opened another restaurant with my mom and one of her brother, and this time it was quite successful.
They ended up living a very happy family life until the very end. Sadly, they both passed away last year in march, just a week apart from each other.. When I say they couldn't stay apart for too long 🥲 Yeah. Real fucking love right there, until the end.
Brought sweet tears to my eyes. Having each other probably made a lot of those trials more bearable. And not having the other probably wasn't something either wanted, in the end.
What amazes me of this time is that there were literally no “ screens “. I mean to imagine a world without internet is so alien to us all now.
I am a millennial so I I have experienced both side but still that world seems like a distant dream. Nostalgia run wild when I try to Think of that time.
Me personally am drenched in in digital tech internet world. And sure it’s a comfortable space. And necessary too. But whenever I see such pics my soul yearns to go to such times , don’t know
What it is , may be it’s the simplicity of things the calm pace of life , as if every minute is “ lived “.
And there is no hunger for newness in every second.
Lmao first thought looking at this photo was to make a comical comment inquiring whether they were hooking up prior to the wedding. But there it is, confirmed. Totally looks like the photo of a couple who got hot and heavy prior to the vows.
It’s probably my fault on that, I was holding the picture in my hand, it’s not a scanned photo, so I might have taken the picture from a slightly too high angle from my phone
They were normal height lol as I've said to someone else I took a pic of the picture from my phone it’s not a scanned pic, I might have taken it at a too high angle ? Some people said he has a big head 🥲
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u/firetailring 1d ago
This looks like a scene from an Italian film!