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My sister stated sharing old family photos and I'd thought I'd share this one. This is my great grandmother on my dads side. She spoke only french, and when we'd visit her she'd always give us a stick of gum from her purse. In my younger days, cajun music was a daily thing, as my dad played the accordion, violin, and harmonica, as did his uncle and other family members.

My Sunday ride home from the camp has my radio tuned to 88.7 FM, nothing but old cajun music, all day long. This puts me in my happy place. I so often long for those days. Life to me seemed so much simpler back then.

Mom once shocked we kids by picking up my older brother's guitar and picking out a bluegrass tune. Seems there wasn't much else to do for evening entertainment back in the hills but form a family band. Well, that, and she was one of eight kids...

Would think it much the same for a lot of the old Cajuns. Anyway, the photo brought a smile and good memories here, too. Thanks for sharing.

That's cool.
Up here, according to history, is French or once was.
The names of certain towns like Paris for instance are French. Champaign is our perverted way of spelling the drink around here.

Now if you handed her a piece of paper that had ILLINOIS written on it how would she pronounce it?

Ill-i-noiz? Hehe
Ill-i-noy? Doubt it

Ill-i-nwah? <---- I think that's the one.

It's ok blame it on the hoosiers.

DComeaux wrote:My sister stated sharing old family photos and I'd thought I'd share this one. This is my great grandmother on my dads side. She spoke only french, and when we'd visit her she'd always give us a stick of gum from her purse. In my younger days, cajun music was a daily thing, as my dad played the accordion, violin, and harmonica, as did his uncle and other family members.

My Sunday ride home from the camp has my radio tuned to 88.7 FM, nothing but old cajun music, all day long. This puts me in my happy place. I so often long for those days. Life to me seemed so much simpler back then.

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Cool piece of family history Dave!!!!!!!

Very cool, DC. Got to keep the cajun heritage going somehow or another; my roots in it renewed far too seldom.

Here's another picture of mom Jean, as we called her. (as in "Jean" Lafitte) This is some of her great grand baby brood.

I'm to the far right beside the girl with the glasses.

"And he was such a good looking child..."

Yeh.......wha happened
Family is everything brother, Great pic!!!!!

It's hard to remember a time when there could be such a picture without at least one smurf t-shirt or other advertising gimmick.

How I recall it spreading in our area.
First there was the kid down the street whose father was a Hamm's beer distributor. One year alluva sudden he had all these near stickers with the Ham's bear doing all sorts of cute things. (to sell beer of course)
His stuff was covered in them. We all demanded ours. He actually produced for some of us.
Guessing that it was around 1969 or 1970. Was in grade school.

Wasn't long until someone had the first Budweiser T-shirt and it was on! At first it was a very exclusive thing and there was a lot of chatter among us mere mortals who had no stars upon thars. Yeah it was like the Sneeches kind of. Us non-star-bearing kids said it was degrading to brand ourselves by clothing ourselves in an ad as we were wearing our converse all -stars. lol
The kid that had first Bud shirt, by the time the craze really got going, was wearing the bar-issue sports shirts to school in high school. His father owned the beer warehouse and distribution place in town.

We'd wear our bud shirts to school and get sent home but when he wore his "official" beer gear it was ok.

Different times.

That picture was probably very early 70's....Times were a bit different.