Paris • October 31, 1968.

I had it colorized

1940s - Grandma boating

Julio Iglesias (biggest singer in Spanish language in history) on his private jet enjoying a bottle of Château Lafite Rothschild, a bucket of KFC chicken and tortilla de patatas while touring the US

This was taken in Toronto, April 1980. The man gesturing by the pump is the gas station owner, Neil Shepherd, arguing with a Toronto Star reporter after announcing they wouldn't refuel Soviet-made Ladas due to the invasion of Afghanistan. Ladas were actually quite popular in Canada back then because they were incredibly cheap, leading to surreal local standoffs like this.

PHOTO BY CECIL BEATON

They were all born in California but were imprisoned in a camp in Jerome, Arkansas for being of Japanese descent during WWII, when my dad was a toddler.

They were able to get out of camp before the end of the war, because my grandparents secured jobs as domestic servants for the Upjohn pharmaceutical family in Michigan.

In Michigan, they found they weren't subject to the virulent racism they had experienced in California (Maybe because people in Michigan at the time had never met a Japanese-American family before, lol) and they remained in Michigan for the rest of their lives.

Jonny is the girl btw

This is from Lee Shulman's The Anonymous Project, a collection of vintage images taken by unnamed photographers.