Comments on: Latter-day Saint Images, 1917 (2)

By: Jpaul

Jpaul — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 01:09:47 +0000

Orton! I have ancestors who lived in Orton. Next time I see you I’ll have to ask where the photo came from. I’m soure one of those is Aunt Lilly
Lilly Thelin

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:17:43 +0000

Aripine has made a previous appearance in the Bloggernacle--in Times and Seasons about two years ago. As one of comments on that thread mentioned, the Turley family ran a boys ranch out there. What it doesn't mention is that one of the Turley girls, Wanda, was the prettiest girl in my dad's graduating class (1943) at Snowflake High School.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:37:50 +0000

It’s apparently now known as Aripine, kevinf, in Navajo County. At least, some genealogists have recorded family births as “in Joppa, now Aripine, Navajo, Arizona.”

By: kevinf

kevinf — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:18:16 +0000

I am not familiar with Joppa, Arizona, so I did a google search, and came up with Joppa Hair & Nails at the Desert Sky Mall on Thomas Road, in Phoenix. The ladies in that picture do appear to be well coiffed. Anybody know anything else about Joppa?

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:15:54 +0000

I particularly enjoyed the photo of the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Relief Society, since I joined the church in Pittsburgh with my parents and siblings 50 years later. We used to hear old stalwarts (who seemed really old to me, then age 9) talk about the history of the chuch in Pittsburgh in their testimonies.

By: andrew h

andrew h — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:00:58 +0000

On a LDS related wheelchair note, it is nice to see that way back then the Church was helping to liberate people with wheelchairs (Ardis am I out of line if I make the point that people are liberated by, not “bound to” wheelchairs?) The effort goes on today:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TndfX1JvsU

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xhwzyy_mormon-church-gave-riques-a-wheelchair_news

And now back to Ardis’s regularly scheduled post on LDS history pictures. Sorry for the thread jack.

By: andrew h

andrew h — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:49:44 +0000

Vader has a valid point. There was a major Poliomyelitis outbreak in the United States in 1916. On a non-LDS and hopefully not thread jacking note, at one time polio survivors made up one of the largest groups of people with disabilities in the U.S.. They played a major role in the fight for civil rights for people with disabilities and helped to get the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 passed.

By: Vader

Vader — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 13:55:55 +0000

Odds are the girl in the wheelchair is there because of polio. It’s a stark reminder that our pioneer forebears had to accept as part of life some things we just don’t have to deal with today.