Auntie Bessie was the sister of my Lind grandfather, William Grace Lind, my dad’s father. I never heard my dad call her anything except Auntie Bessie. Her name was Elizabeth Johnstone (Lind) Fairley.
Apparently her aunt, Isabella, had been married to a Robert Fairley, an upholsterer who came to the U.S. from Glasgow, Scotland, in 1890 and settled in the San Francisco Bay area. When Isabella later became ill, she asked her neice to come and care for her. Later, when she died, Elizabeth and Robert Fairley were married.
During the summer that Meda and I got married, we spent time lounging around the pool at the Menlo Park home of Bill Fairley, my dad’s cousin and Auntie Bessie’s son. He died a few years later in 1975.
Perhaps someone can identify the bicycle model and the approximate year the photo might have been taken.
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Is there anything on the reverse side ? You might send the photo to American Pickers who appear to know everything there is to know about bicycles. Looks like a good quality bike with double breaks and over and under chain guards. This Sunday there is a Wiki Wiki show and there will be at least one post card dealer who might recognize the post card maker and when they operated. I’ll look in my old catalogs for similar type bikes. A fashion diva might be able to identify the outfit she is wearing and when it was popular.