The Swimming Pool Part 2
My maternal grandparents Fred Bucklin and Myrtle Phenice out on the beach with family in southern Louisiana circa 1929.
I’m excited about this photo. It’s not an enhanced photo and it’s not a photo that I’ve shared before. I’ve shared another photo from the same day before. That was the original The Swimming Pool post from over four years ago.
I got this photo from my cousin Carla last year. I’ve shared a few others that she shared with me and there are more to come in the future. I was excited to get this one and a few others that were taken on the same day as the original photo I posted. I wasn’t expecting that. But it wasn’t until today when I was looking for something to post, that I realized that my grandmother (Myrtle Phenice Bucklin, mother of my mom Betty Lou Bucklin Landry) is in the photo.
In the other photo it looked like the Bucklin brothers were fighting over a girl. The girl was in the middle of that photo and she is in the middle of this one also. She’s facing the camera. I think she could be Grandma Myrtle’s older sister Grace. Myrtle was in that original photo too, but she was off to the side looking a bit dejected. But not in this one.
You can see her in front to the left. She is facing away from the camera. I recognized her because of her feminine shoulders and the straps of her swimsuit. Even from this side view, you can recognize her strong high cheekbones. Her hair matches the other photo as well. Maybe she had it pinned up. And even though you can’t see her face, it seems to me that she is having a better time.
Did I hear someone say, “Hogwash!” Well I’ll explain why I say that. She is reclining on the beach between the cute Bucklin twins (Fred Bucklin was my grandfather and Clarence was the father of cousin Carla). It looks like she may be sharing a secret behind a large hat with one of them, while the other one is behind her and reaching for her playfully. I still can’t tell them apart in photos. That happens when the photo is almost 100 years old and the two that I’m talking about were identical twins.
I’m still not exactly sure what is going on in this photo. But now that I realize that my grandmother Myrtle is in it, I’m liking it much more. It looks like they’re having a relaxing and fun time on the beach.
Crop of photo
Seems to me this was probably a pretty racy shot in its day
Rhonda Effron Brown, I thought so once I cropped it. So much casual touching. Oh my!
Do you know who is the guy facing the camera? I had to do a double take because it looked like my dad (Robert Bucklin, Jr) when he was a young man.
Kara Bucklin Brinson, I was wondering who it was myself. In the first photo I posted four years ago, there were two Bucklin brothers fighting over the girl. In this photo, it looks like those two are on either side of my grandmother and then there is another Bucklin brother in the back facing the camera. He looks very similar to the twins. It could be Herbert or Robert. What do you think Joseph Connors?
Mom thinks Robert would have been too young. Probably Herbert. She thinks they took a trip to the beach to celebrate the end of school.