Here is an orphaned snapshot that caught my attention when I came across it recently in an antique shop. Unfortunately, there is no information as to when or where it was taken. You can click on the image to view it in greater detail.
My guess is it from sometime in the 1920s. The glass globe above the man's head and an identical globe on the other side of the window say "Sinclair Oils." The buildings are much older - from the last couple of decades of the 19th century. Presumably the man was either the owner or an employee of the garage. Is the child on the tricycle his? Or is it just some random kid who happened to be there when the photo was posed?
I like to think that somebody somewhere has another copy of this photo - somebody who either knows who the man and child in it were or at least the name of the city and street. Somebody obviously cared enough about it to preserve it for a good many decades. Yet, in the end, it was relegated to a box in the corner of some antique shop along with a few hundred other forgotten images waiting for someone like me to come along and fork over a dollar for it.
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