Comments on: Latter-day Saint Images, 1940

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:41:55 +0000

Sent. Let us know if she recognizes anybody (you don’t have to identify them to us, but it would just be nice to know if you found someone there).

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:36:45 +0000

Ardis, would it be possible to receive an emailed copy of the McCalla and Long Beach photos? My mother-in-law is from McCalla and would be just a few years olf in 1940. (Could it even be that she is the little toddler there? I don’t know!) and I live in L.B. We’re a large city with more than one stake, but I wonder if anyone would recognize anyone in it? If possible, thanks. If not, I’ll see if my mil’s eyes are good enough to see the little picture on the screen.

By: Clark

Clark — Tue, 17 May 2011 19:24:59 +0000

I love the expression on the Lehi, Utah primary teacher’s face.

Also, I want MY stake to hold a kite festival. That sounds awesome.

By: David Y.

David Y. — Fri, 13 May 2011 20:09:29 +0000

Woo hoo! One of my favorite series at Keepa. Haven’t read the comments but wanted to say that I loved these photos — also, a poignant comment about the absence of choirs and Sunday Schools in the lead up to WWII.

By: Researcher

Researcher — Fri, 13 May 2011 19:25:32 +0000

The Salt River Indian Reservation. That's a few blocks from where I grew up. It was a dry, dusty, cotton-farming place with a lot of poverty until development brought some wealth into the community in the recent decade or two. The original Mormon settlement in the area, Lehi, was also right up against the Reservation. You can read about some of the early dealings of the settlers with the Pima Indians in Daniel Webster Jones' book Forty Years Among the Indians. The interactions were complicated.

By: Jeannine

Jeannine — Fri, 13 May 2011 18:55:59 +0000

Because of the intro, I was thinking WWII, and when I got to the picture of the Japanese RS in Hawaii, it made me sad. I wonder if a year later it even existed.

By: MMM

MMM — Fri, 13 May 2011 18:02:16 +0000

Wow. They used to have “date” projects? From the sound of things, the young men of the church don’t even know what a “date” is anymore.

By: kevinf

kevinf — Fri, 13 May 2011 18:00:10 +0000

Fun, as always. Seeing the date, I thought there was a chance that I might know someone in some of the pictures, but as near as I can tell, not the case. Either too soon or too late for family in some of the areas, or places we have no connection to. Obviously, it looks colder in Tabor, Lethbridge Stake, Alberta, than just about anywhere else.

By: Moniker Challenged

Moniker Challenged — Fri, 13 May 2011 16:00:37 +0000

Very cool. A little disappointed in the first picture though–when I first opened the site I thought it was a guy wearing a pith helmet in Equatorial Guinea or something. Arizona’s not quite as exciting. Dr.Young, I presume? I’ve never seen a date palm before, and hadn’t realized what the clusters of fruit looked like. Add that to my tally of Keepafacts.

By: Mark Brown

Mark Brown — Fri, 13 May 2011 14:32:35 +0000

I am impressed with those Primary boys from Tremonton who made the quilt for the hospital. Especially the ones wearing their bib overalls.

I was curious about McCalla, AL. That looks like a log cabin they are using for a meetinghouse, so I assumed it was out in the country somewhere. I did a quick lookup and found that it is between Birmingham and Tuscaloosa, close to what is now the interstate. It might even be considered a suburb of Birmingham now.

Ardis, when I open my browser and see a post from you about latter-day images, I know it is going to be a good day. I enjoy these pictures.