Arnie, This one's for you!

Every family has certain photographs that are special to them.  Maybe it is a wedding picture or a family group shot taken at some memorable event, but we all have those special ones.  This is one of the Trope family’s special photographs. 

Frank and Lou Trope
c. 1906

        It shows two young brothers standing in a horse drawn wagon outside of a grocery store in the early 1900s.  The boys are Grandpa (Arnie) Trope’s father (Frank Trope - age 7) and uncle (Louis Trope - age 4).  They are outside their father’s store in North Hempstead, Long Island, New York in about 1906.  I am pretty sure that the three other people pictured here are not family members.

            The comment I have always heard has been about how much these two little boys look like Arnie’s boys when they were little.  Check this out.

Jim and Mike Trope
1963

This picture is Mike and Jim Trope (Arnie’s sons) in 1963 when they were five and three years old.  It looks like they were on the hay wagon at their grandpa’s farm in southwestern Virginia.  I am pretty sure it was tractor pulled and not horse pulled. 

Not only is the resemblance uncanny, but the pose as well.

We are so lucky to have old photos like these.  I understand well why Arnie feels so special about this one.