Weekly Photo Challenge: Gone But Not Forgotten

When we bought our old barn, I needed furniture tout de suite for the guest room. We found a five piece mahogany set in an antiques mall which I set to cleaning up before company arrived.

As I was putting a drawer back into the dresser, I felt a slight obstruction. I pulled the drawer out completely and this is what I found bunched up against the frame:

Some very groovy pantyhose still in the unopened packaging. Sixties? Early Seventies?

Let’s take a closer look at the traces of the spit-spot Mrs. Harold Diehl, Sr. who hailed from the Baltimore area. My keen sleuthing skills are at work here:

An entirely separate post could be written on the “Gone But Not Forgotten” department stores of yore.

 

Evidently Mrs. Diehl enjoyed shopping and was a meticulous record-keeper.

Not one of these receipts has a year. Several have a date written thusly: MM/DD/Y. The year is “6” Whether 66 or 76, I’m not sure.

In the days before we plopped everything into a gift bag….remember when we had to actually wrap things?

Neatly folded wrapping paper

And best of all this little notebook:

 

Nothing particularly interesting lies within and yet I find it rather moving:

Maybe she was a brunette?

 

The usually neat handwriting now a scribble….has something happened?

And perhaps one of the Diehls was a Mainer:

And that’s it. That’s all I know of Mrs. Harold Diehl, Sr.  Not even her first name. When I eventually sell the furniture, I will include all of this in the neat little plastic bag in which I found it.

Mrs. Diehl may be gone, but she won’t be entirely forgotten. At least not on my watch.

Oh yes, remember to check that furniture before you put it up for sale. It might have something to say…..

Thanks for reading,

Barbara