"We're All Immortal, as Long as our Stories are Told." - Elizabeth Hunter, The Scribe

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I'm jumping back to the Lutovsky side of the family on this post for more restored and colorized family photos. If anyone in the family has any old photos that need to be restored and colorized, please email them to me and I'll see what I can do. Some photos are unfortunately such bad quality there isn't a whole lot that can be done, but the photo editing software keep getting better and better, so even the lousy photos may have some hope some day. Although, the last photos I am posting below is proving my theory wrong. I started out with a really crappy black and white photo and ended up with an amazing colorized and restored photo, so sometimes miracles happen...but more about that below.

I know this photo has been floating around the family for a while now of the seven oldest kids in my Dad's family. Here is a labeled version if anyone doesn't know who is who. This photo would have been taken around 1944 or 1945. My Aunt Mary, who is the youngest in the photo, was born in October of 1942 and she looks to be around 2 to 2 1/2 years old.

Here's an unlabeled black and white version along side the colorized version.

This next photo below is a big mystery as to whom does this triple framed photo belong to? Many years ago someone took a photo of the framed photos and sent it to me. I don't remember who sent it or who has the original photos, but I would like to know. You can tell the 3 photos are set in a frame behind glass, and you can see in the reflection the silhouette of the person taking the photo with an overhead light behind them.

I would like to know who has this photo because I would like to get a nice scan of the middle photo, since the version I have is really poor. What's amazing to me about this photo is the black and white version is terrible, but the colorized version came out beautifully well, which is a bit odd. It doesn't normally work this way. The better the photo you start out with, the better the end result. However, this is about as crappy as a black and white photo can get, yet the colorized version miraculously turned out beautifully. Maybe that's because there's a nun in the photo and there was a little divine intervention? 😀😁😇Probably not, it's just AI software that's still in its infancy stage, but fun to think of this way. Below are the crappy black and white photo that I started with and the miraculous colorized and restored photo.

If anyone isn't aware who these people are in the photo, below is a labeled version...but just for a hint...the youngest boy in the photo standing in front of my Grandma Matilda is my Dad. This photo was probably taken in 1939, which is the year my Uncle Dick was born. He was born in May of 1939, and he would be the baby wrapped up in the blanket being held by his Mama. Since he's wrapped up so well with a little beanie on, he's probably a very young baby at this point, so it makes sense that this photo was taken in the summer of 1939.

And just on a side note...I LOVE the old car in the background.