I love this photo of my Grandpa Charlie (Sherlock) in Germany (I think!) in 1961. This was a part of their month-long trip to Europe. Whenever I see this photo, I think it looks like it is from one of his movies when actually it was from his life.
On that trip, they took a cruise down the Rhine River and visited cities along the Rhine. I am thinking that this is from one of those side trips. I have a photo of Grandma Theresa also with this officer, but of course, hers is much more the typical pose of two people looking at the camera.
What is also typical of this photo of my Grandma and the German officer is that they are not posed in the middle of the photo. Grandpa Charlie always took photos like this. He would say that he already knew what his family members looked like, he wanted to get the scenery as the focus point.
I do love how they were dressed up in all of the photos of this trip. I guess that was custom in that time while now we are much more casual. Sometimes, I do yearn for those days ...
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