Red Bird, OK
In addition to my love of old photographs of people, I have found I really like photos that show some social history. This was in my great-grandmother’s possession, and she had an aunt who married a Sol Bradley. So, I am not sure, but perhaps she is the “Mrs. S.B. Bradley” who owned the store shown in this postcard also? She traveled away from Tennessee a lot and I was amazed to find that Red Bird was one of those all-black towns in Oklahoma. I love this photo…this is probably what an early 20th century, black-owned country store looked like. Pretty neat, huh?
Great photo! I love to look up photos like this from the places where my family lived. You can just imagine them walking through the store, can’t you?
But oh, imagine trying to do inventory there…
Very neat Robyn! Something about the postcard makes me just want to study it.
I was told by my Great Aunts that my GGGrandmother Marrie owned a store on historic Auburn Ave here in Atlanta.
I’d give anything to see a picture of it or her!
Our folks were REALLY something else weren’t they? They are the reason we can survive most anything today.
Luckie.
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P.S. Thanks for the new leads on Our Alabama Roots! I’m going to turn it into a post of next steps!:-)