What a nice surprise to pull this out of a box! We look back at the scene of so much family life over the years since Gene and Clara built their home in 1957.
The brick is the back of the fireplace; no brass or iron hooks have yet been drilled into it for hanging things up. The stove has two ovens; I'm still envious. She has a glass milk bottle in her right hand; what is she up to? We see the back hall leading to the back door.
Great nightgown and bobby socks, Mom. Dad's evidently been home a few minutes: long enough to take off "collar and hames," the shirt and tie. The table is set for supper for two, not four; a serving bowl is being kept warm in that round glass chafing dish with a candle inside it; the little sliver of kitchen window we see is dark. So are the kids in bed already? Did Dad get home extra late from the office this Monday or Friday night?
To the right of the refrigerator are the binoculars that have been to China and back. He uses them now to watch birds.
Along to the right are the chafing dish and a bunch of stuff that must include that big green radio.
The kitchen table still has the glass top under that tablecloth; it will be years before I sit on it and break the glass. It's my desk now, and those chairs are my office chairs.
Mom would wear actual clothes were there visitors. So Dad must have set up a tripod and timer. They stand at their kitchen hearth and look forward with confidence to their future life here.
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