My first thought on seeing the prompt image for this Sepia Saturday was WOW, I’ve got nothing. Then I started flipping through the photos from my husband’s family and BINGO, there this one was. The back reads, “Mom, first customer at Grand Union.” I’m not sure which Grand Union or what year this was, but it’s probably in the 1950s in northeastern New Jersey, and the woman is my husband’s grandmother, Hilje “Hilda” (Dijkema) Jaarsma. I can’t seem to find any newspaper articles in NJ mentioning the event, or at least not any indexed and scanned online. Still, it’s a great photo of an interesting event, and is completely relevent to the prompt image for this week! What a great chance to get to use this photo for a Sepia Saturday.
