Ray, Jay and Al

ray_jay_and_al

FOUND by Karabeth Shepherd in Idaho

I think this came out of a used book. Something about it, eh? The back says Alfred, Uncle Jay, Dad Grandpa Ray, Dad. Two brothers and their pops. Smoking, smoking, not so much. That Al sure looks like he’s finding his place in the world but Ray already knows.

Some Similar Finds:

  • Librarian in the woodwork

    Ray = writer
    Jay = bathroom fixtures traveling salesman
    Al = just back from the war (the BIG one) and on his way to becoming a junior high school social studies teacher, though he’ll always dream of being back in the South Pacific

  • orinocowomble

    Radar, Col Potter, and BJ Hunnicutt in his dress greens. Beej just got back from the Parallel and got stranded in Chicago, so Potter picked him up and drove him to Radar’s farm for some good old home cookin’ and a shower before he travels on to CA.

  • Chrome Toaster in the Corner

    well, you c’n call me Ray.. or you c’n call me Jay… ohhh you can call me Al. call me Al.

    Karabeth in Idaho, that is seriously one of the strangest Finder’s Blurbs I’ve read on Found to date. Love the pic though. if it came out of the used book, whence came the book? yard sale? Goodwill store?

  • orinocowomble

    Hey, Chrome!!! Good to see you!!

  • Hiplainsdrifter_HPD

    Jay: Why couldn’t you sign up to go to war? Be a real man like your brother Al? Go and serve and die for your country fighting the Krauts or Japs!!

    Ray: But I don’t want to father! I want to be a painter!

    Jay: A painter? Of houses? Go to war son – die for your county like Al probably will.

    Al: Hey no one said I anything about dying. This painting thing is staring to sound good to me.

    Ray: No. I want to paint flowers. Or, maybe be a sculpter and live on a commune.

    Jay: A sculpter? Gadzooks have you lost your mind? Mother! He wants to be sculpter now… and just what it is that you will sculpt???

    Ray: Well my dream Pa is… to sculpt cats. Ceramic cats.

    Jay: Jesus Christ on a crutch! A bohemian! This will be the last time I will ever lay eyes on you son. You’re a disgrace to me and your whole family.

    Al: I dunno Pa – this whole sculpting cats thing sounds better than fightin the Jerries and dying….

  • Amy Winehouse

    Nice find!

  • Librarian in the woodwork

     Looks like Found is getting some of the gang back together! I like it.

  • Clover_in_the_Lawn

    The guy with the glasses is cute.

  • Clover_in_the_Lawn

    I guess that would be Grandpa Ray. 

  • GG Allin

    A great piece of vintage America. It looks like they could have been close…but now they are gone, I’m sure. Grandpa was still a sharp dresser and his boys walked tall and proud. As Ray or Al aged, they probably looked back fondly on this photo, remembering what once was.

  • GG Allin

    It looks like Al was part of the Aviation Cadet Training Program.