Aliviah Renee Toliver, 2013. Visiting SAAM for the first time.
When my sisters, brother and I were growing up we visited the art museum from time to time and always made a stop at the camels. Here are two photos. One of the four of us Saunders kids about 1958 and another of our mother Helen about 1928 with the real thing in China. The camels had just finished delivering a load of coal for home heating.
My dad and I in 1996. He grew up a few blocks from here and we were visiting his old neighborhood!
My children (Paul and Rory Tripp) and I had season tickets to the Disney movies for a number of seasons.
On the right in this photo is my grandmother Eunice Coble Lamoreux, who did volunteer work with SAM. It is undated, but from her “New Look” suit and hat it obviously is from the post WWII era. I found the photo when I was cleaning out my parent’s house after my father died.
This was taken at least 15 years ago, when I took a friend visiting from England (backwards on camel) to the museum. I grew up going to Volunteer Park with my family so it always holds good memories.
