A photo of cousins Lea Penman and George Engel out for a Sunday drive in their horseless carriage at 1235 Acoma Street, Denver, Colorado in 1911.
Lea would later become a successful vaudeville and Broadway actress with her greatest accomplishment as Dolly Tate in the 1946 production of "Annie Get Your Gun" which ran for 1,147 performances at the Imperial Theater in New York.
This looks like it could be my grandparents. They married in 1909. I have a photo of grandpa wearing a hat like this and I have one of grandma in a darling hat like this lady is wearing. Thanks for sharing this.
My aunt who will be 104 next month recalls the first time she saw an automobile. Not on the road. It was on a steam ship going down the river in Kentucky when she was a little girl. Can you image just all the new things she has seen in her life time.
apologies if this offends anyones sensibilities about old photos - but just as an experiment, I thought I'd tidy this one up a bit in order to bring out some of the detail a bit more clearly
Lea Penman was born on October 4, 1895 in Red Cloud, Webster County, Nebraska United States, and died at age 67 years old on October 12, 1962 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Lea Penman.
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