Photos from 1960s Suburbia in an Old Red Wallet

I was looking through boxes of old photos at my parent’s house during the holidays and came across this old red wallet crammed full of small Polaroids taken in the 1960s. They feature my family at home, at work, with friends, and on vacation nearly 50 years ago.

I had not seen most of the photos before so it was a great find.

While both my parent‘s ancestors had lived and farmed the same land in Haywood County, TN since the early 1830s, they were part of the postwar baby boomer trend of leaving farms and rural communities and moving to the cities and suburban communities.

They purchased one of the first lots in a planned community called Parkway Village in Memphis that, at the time, was mostly cotton fields and dirt roads.

The chemicals on the photos are fading giving them a ghostly vintage look that no iphone filter could replicate so I scanned them and left them as they were, other than adjusting the contrast on some to bring out the detail.

In Haywood County

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Home Sweet Suburbs

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The Office

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Vacation

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Friends and Family

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Photos from 1960s Suburbia in an Old Red Wallet