Holland before the year 1920 / Nederland van vóór 1920

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About Holland before the year 1920 / Nederland van vóór 1920

This is a group for Dutch pictures and pictorial life stories that are more than 85 years old , for example :

Dit is een fotogroep voor Nederlandse foto's en picturale levensverhalen van meer dan 85 jaar oud , zoals bijvoorbeeld :


MAN ON THE MOON .....? IMPOSSIBLE , NOT IN A MILLION YEARS !!



This is an very old and very well conserved picture of a married couple , portrayed around 100 years ago .
These people raised my mother and gave her a pleasant and secure childhood in the city of The Hague in the Netherlands .

The names and data of the man and the woman who are - slightly majestic in the 'old fashioned way' - portrayed here are :

MARIE CORNELIA ANNA VAN DRONGELEN (callname : Marie) ; she was the daughter of Jacobus Lodewijk van Drongelen and Marie Keijzer /

JOHANNES PAULUS LOKKERBOL (callname : Jan) ; he was the son of Paulus Leenderd Lokkerbol and of Christina de Jong ; he had been formerly married to Rosalie Eugenie Anastasie Mulder .

Jan Lokkerbol was born on march 15 1872 in The Hague and he passed away in the year 1944 in a small place named Groessen in the eastern part of the country .

His wife , Marie van Drongelen , was born on march 28 1883 in The Hague in the morning at about half past six , as we once read in her certificate of birth ; Marie finally died on august 23 1976 in The Hague , at the privileged age of 93.

I personally never had the chance to get to know my 'grandfather' , since he already died 16 years before I was born , but I díd have the opportunity of getting to know my 'grandmother' , rather well even , and that's why I can still vividly remember her reaction to the sensational news of the landing of the first man on the moon in the summer of 1969 - at the time my grandmother already was an elderly woman of 86 .
My grandmother couldn't , no really refused (!) to accept - and not even from an acquaintance who , coincidentally , had been living in Houston , USA , the place of the flight-control centre of the Apollo-project - that such a fully improbable event as 'a man walking on the moon' could have taken place in reality .....
"Only in the stories of Jules Verne , but nót in reality , that's for sure !" , may have been the comment of my grandmother to this staggering news - my grandmother was already stricken in years , and had been raised and had been living in her younger years in a completely different world of course (the one of the towboat !) - and so she kept on persisting in her refusal to believe the fully incomprehensible ...........