Pardon the blurry slide. I guess that's what happens to slides when they sit in a shoebox for 48 years.The summer between my mom's junior and senior years at Smith College, she traveled to the Philippines with a group of college students led by a former US Navy … [Read more...]
Palace Hotel, 1964
In 1964 my mom traveled from her home in Nagoya to attend the Olympics in Tokyo.During that trip, she snapped this photo of the relatively new Palace Hotel.What struck me about this photo is that the Palace's one and only sign is written in English. I've seen other … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Round Is a Mooncake
All this week I've been reading Round is a Mooncake (Chronicle, 2000) by Roseanne Thong and Grace Lin to my two young kids. Sometimes my twelve year old takes over if I have to straighten out the bathroom or find a clean set of pajamas before bedtime.Although this book is now … [Read more...]
Arrivals and departures
How cool is this? I just found this slide my mom took of the arrivals and departures board at the Phnom Penh airport on 25 June 1965. Brilliant.There's so much going on here. I just love it.(My eight years of French finally paid off, as I can read two-thirds of the … [Read more...]
Fragrant Harbor, 1962
Where have all the sampans gone?This 1962 slide of Hong Kong brings warmth to my heart on a cold Chicago day.Every time my mom visited me in Hong Kong, she'd reminisce about the sampans that used to line the harbor. But the only sampans I ever saw were tourist ones: burnt … [Read more...]
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