Feb. 23, 2010 at 10:20pm with 48 notes View comments
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Recently I posted two of the very last photos I have of my grandfather (here and here). This is one of the very earliest photos I have of him, and, well… Color me fascinated. I’m pretty sure this is in Puerto Rico, partly because he looks so young, and partly because why else would there be a Puerto Rican flag? I suspect it’s at a boat yard or marina of some kind. I even wonder if this photo wasn’t taken the day he left Puerto Rico for New York, and I imagine it’s concurrent with this formal portrait. (A month ago I shared photos of him circa WWII in his Army uniform, and in Belgium in 1945, and more recently I wrote a really emotional open letter to him. If you gather from this that my grandfather holds an exceptionally dear place in my heart, you’d be right. He is, after all, the man who confessed to me on his deathbed that he had not, in fact, invented the piña colada, he had merely PERFECTED it.)

Recently I posted two of the very last photos I have of my grandfather (here and here). This is one of the very earliest photos I have of him, and, well… Color me fascinated.

I’m pretty sure this is in Puerto Rico, partly because he looks so young, and partly because why else would there be a Puerto Rican flag? I suspect it’s at a boat yard or marina of some kind. I even wonder if this photo wasn’t taken the day he left Puerto Rico for New York, and I imagine it’s concurrent with this formal portrait.

(A month ago I shared photos of him circa WWII in his Army uniform, and in Belgium in 1945, and more recently I wrote a really emotional open letter to him. If you gather from this that my grandfather holds an exceptionally dear place in my heart, you’d be right. He is, after all, the man who confessed to me on his deathbed that he had not, in fact, invented the piña colada, he had merely PERFECTED it.)

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  2. quickwitter said: odysseyseaglass.com/old… the building in the center behind your grandfather looks like the same building as in the foreground in the link…love the posts on your family. Happy Pre-Birthday
  3. cuandomenospienses said: This is most definitely at San Juan’s grave yard by the beach side. One of the most beautiful views in San Juan. This image seems so beautiful, and it takes up so much.
  4. monkeyfrog said: I thought it was a cemetery.
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