This is one of my favorite photos of my mother, brother and sister in the 1950s. I assume it was taken by my father and probably in South Carolina where he was from. I love the retro details, fish for $1.25, the front of the car, the simplicity of the snack place. Susan Sontag said, “Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.” We are interested if for no other reason than the historical details. Does that mean every photo becomes art? Maybe so, if we wait long enough.

Pete Hendley

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