Hidden Treasures

This is the first in an occasional series highlighting goodies found at thrift stores, rummage sales, and the like around the country. I have not worked up a Mission Statement for this series so I cannot say what kind of goodies I will be highlighting. I think I will have to let the aesthetic develop as the series unfolds.

The first treasure is a commemerative photo taken at what probably was a High School Prom (based on the date). At first I thought that one of the people dumped or got dumped by the other & decided to get rid of the memorial to their failed relationship. I imagine the inscription "This Night, Forever...", with it's promise of a lifetime committment, mocked the owner daily from atop his dresser after he found out that his girl started fucking some dude from Econ 101 just weeks after going off to her first year at college.

Now, however, I'm not so sure how the picture ended up at the thrift store, because if you broke up with significant other you probably would throw the picture away. Why go to the trouble of giving it to a thrift store? Maybe someone's mom was cleaning out their room after they went off to college and threw the picture out, maybe because she hates the boy/girl friend? Perhaps someone skipped out on rent and the picture was among other things left in the apartment, and the landlord had their handyman take everything out & give it all to the thrift store. Beats me.