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How would your mom display the family photos in your home growing up, Sue?

They for sure were printed.

Yeah.

I don't think they were printed on paper.

Were they put behind glass or... Yeah, I don't think they were printed on paper.

Were they put behind glass or was it like a textured paper

in just a frame?

I think this was before like the stretch canvas era.

So this was like probably like printed paper in like a

a frame with like a large mat to make it appear larger but it was less expensive to

print off the small paper so yeah so yeah that's on my family would do it, but like my mom had friends and stuff that would do like big big things like when we think of like family portraits

Yes, we think of like the matching outfits and like the denum on denim we think of all these things and they're like they were ready to boast these things like big time above the fireplace.

Like they were like the Romneys. Yeah, yeah. No, and yeah, they they came ready to show off

That's for sure and they would print them and that's the funny thing too is that they would do it every year and so they would just like have just this concourse of like photos down the

hallways and up the stairs and I think a lot of I think a lot of families did I

remember like around us that like again that's all they had for their walls was family photos

Also a lot of things people do is then use the family photo for their Christmas card. Oh yeah, and they had to send a Christmas card out every year.

So it was a constant run of updating family photos.

And then by the time you get it back from the photographer

and then go and get it framed,

then really you've only got about seven months while that image is current on your wall before you go at it again.

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