Sunday, May 13, 2007

A Mother's Day image

Changing Times: Los Angeles in Photographs 1920-1990 is a new online archive of digitized newspaper photographs, maintained by UCLA Library Special Collections. It's a rich and searchable collection. The following photo stood out for me, as a fine image to share on Mother's Day in the US:
According to the caption at the website, this is Magdalena Wodke, a member of the Totally Confident Disabled Drill Team, with her son on her lap, on a track at Northridge in 1984. It's an LA Times photo from August 1984. What was that team again? The Totally Confident Drill Team was part of Operation Confidence, an independent-living and vocational training project begun in 1980 at Widney High School in Los Angeles. The TC Drill Team performed at the Summer Olympics in 1984, which is when this photo was taken. I can't find more about Magdalena Wodke, or her son (who would be about 23 now).

3 comments:

Ruth said...

Great photo :) And a belated Happy Mother's day to you.

Anonymous said...

That is a beautiful picture.

Oh, and what Ruth said. :)

Paula Apodaca said...

Beautiful, tasteful iamge...
Thanks for posting it!
Cordially,
E. is for Epilepsy by Paula Apodaca
http://www.epilepsy-paula.blogspot.com