Wedding photos sure have changed over the years

Joyce Erickson, formerly of Devils Lake, N.D., and now of Hastings, Minn., sends in this wedding photo of her aunt Myrtle Holstein and Oswald Torgerson, of Church's Ferry, N.D., taken in Devils Lake. She doesn't give the date it was taken.

"It's so shocking to me," Joyce writes, "that a photographer would take wedding pictures and not have the couple sit or stand together.

"Did you ever see a picture with the wife sitting alone and her husband standing quite a distance away?" she asks, adding that she's also seen a similar pose for one of her mother's relatives when she was married in Canada.

Yes, Joyce, wedding photos (and wedding clothing) have changed over the years.

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Vernon Hickel, Detroit Lakes, Minn., was the first baby born in Williston, N.D., in 1933, coming into the world Jan. 2 that year.

Vernon recently sent Neighbors a classified ad about himself someone ran in a newspaper (he didn't say which one) that noted his birth date numerically is 1 2 33.

The ad goes on to read, "If his parents would have shown some self-control, his birth date could have been 1 2 34."

Well, Vern now is 82. He's a Korean War vet. And he keeps up with Forum articles, noting a Neighbors column about Fargo trucks. He says, as have others, that it was a Dodge pickup made or maybe assembled in Canada "until the early 1950s and maybe longer."

'Guys and gals' issue

Other Neighbors' topics have concerned the pros and cons of calling men and women "guys" and "gals." Some people object to those terms while others see nothing wrong with them.

That controversy let to an email from David Lutes, Palm Desert, Calif., who writes:

"It's annoying to hear a waiter or waitress address a group of men and women as, 'How are you guys doing?'

" 'Guys' sounds okay, but I prefer 'ladies' for the females."

David adds that he moved to California 45 years ago, "But I still have a place in my heart for the Fargo-Moorhead area."

He concludes his email about his views of the "guys and gals" issue with, "It's raining here and so I have nothing better to do than add my two cents worth."

With inflation, it's worth more than that, Dave.

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