Deborah Lundbech's photos with the keyword: Browns

Loaded for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme of: Telephones This is 1964 and shows our fellow next door neighbor immigrants from England in their new house in Connecticut. Unlike our family they had owned a phone in England, but it was absolutely only for their father's business use. "When it rang [very rarely, probably] my sister and I used to stand there and look at it". (says Ruth). This was taken in the first few days they were in the States. Ruth is pretending to talk, because as she says, "Who would I call?" Our family didn't get a phone until months later. We had never had one, and my parents didn't understand, at that point, the reason for one.

The Lundbechs, the Browns, the Jamiesons and the Greenings - all English immigrants - we used to meet here several times a month and bond over memories of Marmite, stony beaches and everything that was good and sensible and was now lost to us. Moving to a new culture is overwhelming even when you speak the same language. Challenging times but an incredible amount of great, fun times together too..