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I found this on a walk-run several months ago. It's a pic from a wedding. The people are all Hispanic-looking, so I assume it was taken in Mexico or somewhere else south of the border, probably in the 1950s. The photo is coated with a thick layer of clear resin or lacquer and mounted on heavy black cardboard. Somebody had kept it for half a century, at some point bringing it into the US when they immigrated, legally or illegally. How did it end up on the sidewalk? Maybe it fell out of a kid's backpack on the way home from school after Show & Tell. I wonder if it was the kid's grandparents (or great-grandparents) who got married that day so long ago. Or maybe it's a favorite aunt who was one of those little girls holding the wedding gown train. Whatever, the picture was highly valued, obviously, and likely a family heirloom.
I thought of tying the picture to a light pole near where I found it, to see if someone would claim it. But I never got around to it. It's probably too late now.
It made me think of one of my favorite music videos, "Mexican Radio" by Wall of Voodoo from 1983, the early days of MTV. It's full of typical images of Mexican pop culture from a gringo point of view.
I thought of tying the picture to a light pole near where I found it, to see if someone would claim it. But I never got around to it. It's probably too late now.
It made me think of one of my favorite music videos, "Mexican Radio" by Wall of Voodoo from 1983, the early days of MTV. It's full of typical images of Mexican pop culture from a gringo point of view.