Welcome Rev, HARD to find stuff like this, quite a few hunting for it... Back then to have your portrait taken cost money which explains why most of them are Chinese Indonesians, the average Indonesian citizen couldn't afford it 'cept for the higher ups, the priyayi and the radens, funny how it was the same with records, only when cassettes started to come out could ordinairy Indonesians afford to buy music.... I was talking with an old man recently. how his whole village would sit around a radio, Titim Fatimah was like a goddess back then, they would really gather when she was on is whst he told me...
I bet the answer is no, but by any chance do any of the photos have any notes on the back? People around the world are bad about that. As I used to tell my folks, ‘If you don’t write down who and when, after you’re gone, chances those things will be forgotten and lost forever. I bet having your picture taken back in the day was an expensive big deal, like flying in the early days, so hell yeah you dress up, etc. I imagine early on if you were the one with a radio or TV, here come the neighbor! They'd better bring snacks!
You've got that right Rev, only sometimes something is written on the back... And so often I see whole photo albums, whole family histories for sell (and usually they're asking pretty crazy money for it, there really are many collectors hunting for this kinda stuff)... I remember one set of albums, there was a woman in it who I found very intriguing... In the first albums you saw her as a young girl, then you saw her getting married, her husband is all over the album for a while, her kids slowly grow up, then her husband doesn't appear anymore, he must've died and in the last album she's an old auntie sitting with the other old aunties sipping tea, I didn't buy those album, couldn't afford them, then when I decided fuck it, they were already gone....
Yes, it's sad how often and how quick people are just forgotten, it's the same with me really, I can tell you a lot about my grand parents, but about their parents I know almost nothing....
I'm going to keep posting all the stuff I've found over the years, I personally find it all fascinating and every now and then I really do find some amazing stuff like those photo's from Pak Ujo and his angklung school way before he became well known, that photo from a very young Titim Fatimah, just priceless....
And I have some very early memories.... The first flight to the moon... My grand father worked at Phillips (after a long military career) and he managed to get a color tv and a lot of family and neighbors showed up to watch :) I must've been four or something, I mostly remember the folks gathered around that tv, all in wonder and me sleeping under a table :)
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ReplyDeleteLotta pretty girls there. The photographer had a good eye. Thanks for the beauty!
ReplyDeleteWelcome Rev, HARD to find stuff like this, quite a few hunting for it... Back then to have your portrait taken cost money which explains why most of them are Chinese Indonesians, the average Indonesian citizen couldn't afford it 'cept for the higher ups, the priyayi and the radens, funny how it was the same with records, only when cassettes started to come out could ordinairy Indonesians afford to buy music.... I was talking with an old man recently. how his whole village would sit around a radio, Titim Fatimah was like a goddess back then, they would really gather when she was on is whst he told me...
ReplyDeleteI bet the answer is no, but by any chance do any of the photos have any notes on the back? People around the world are bad about that. As I used to tell my folks, ‘If you don’t write down who and when, after you’re gone, chances those things will be forgotten and lost forever. I bet having your picture taken back in the day was an expensive big deal, like flying in the early days, so hell yeah you dress up, etc. I imagine early on if you were the one with a radio or TV, here come the neighbor! They'd better bring snacks!
ReplyDeleteYou've got that right Rev, only sometimes something is written on the back... And so often I see whole photo albums, whole family histories for sell (and usually they're asking pretty crazy money for it, there really are many collectors hunting for this kinda stuff)... I remember one set of albums, there was a woman in it who I found very intriguing... In the first albums you saw her as a young girl, then you saw her getting married, her husband is all over the album for a while, her kids slowly grow up, then her husband doesn't appear anymore, he must've died and in the last album she's an old auntie sitting with the other old aunties sipping tea, I didn't buy those album, couldn't afford them, then when I decided fuck it, they were already gone....
ReplyDeleteYes, it's sad how often and how quick people are just forgotten, it's the same with me really, I can tell you a lot about my grand parents, but about their parents I know almost nothing....
I'm going to keep posting all the stuff I've found over the years, I personally find it all fascinating and every now and then I really do find some amazing stuff like those photo's from Pak Ujo and his angklung school way before he became well known, that photo from a very young Titim Fatimah, just priceless....
And I have some very early memories.... The first flight to the moon... My grand father worked at Phillips (after a long military career) and he managed to get a color tv and a lot of family and neighbors showed up to watch :) I must've been four or something, I mostly remember the folks gathered around that tv, all in wonder and me sleeping under a table :)