Blog Anniversary

Today marks the two-year anniversary of The Passion of Former Days! Hooray!!

San Diego Air and Space Museum

Ticker tape celebration! (actually for Charles Lindbergh, 1927. Source)

In two years we've had over 330 posts, 360,000 page views, and who knows how many thousands of pictures. I've gone from dabbler in the Flickr Commons to graduate student in Working With Photographs, as a direct result of this blog. I'm still amazed at all this and at all the wonderful people who follow and share and enjoy. I work very hard on this and it's so rewarding. 

For this anniversary week I have a special series of posts, exclusive to this blog. I'm lucky enough to have a photo album my grandmother made when she was sixteen, in 1947. It's packed full of photographs, arranged and captioned to present a view of her life at the time. I've gone through and photographed every page, photograph, and caption for preservation and sharing, so this week I shall be presenting that. It will start tomorrow, so stay tuned!

Finally, I thought I'd also commemorate today by a journey through some of the blog's most popular posts. At the bottom it gives the "top" 7, but a) I don't quite know how it decides that, because while all those are popular, their rating stats don't match the ones I get if I go through individual post views and b), pff, top 7? How about top 25? 

So, here are your 25 favourites, as of today!

1. Scotland by Photochrom



2. A Pet Ocelot 



3. Snow in Paris





4. Drinks!



5. Rebellious Dating, Japan, 1946



6. The Enemy is Syphilis



7. Soldiers Sleeping



8. Teenage Girls of the 1940s



9. In Love



10. Travel by Eurail



11. Kissing the War Away



12. The Colours of Nighttime New York



13. Berlin, 1950



14. Teenage Boys of the 1940s



15. Old Mexico



16.  Sleeping on the Western Front



17. Dogs of New York City



18. Valentine's Day Postcards Part Two



19. Tea, the Solider's Drink



 20. Wartime Pets Part Four



21. Ice Cream



22. Spitfire!



23.  Wartime Sports



24.   Casualties of World War One



25. Nightlife in Paris, 1947



Good choices, guys! For some of my top picks (plenty of which overlap), see My Favourite Posts.


And once again, THANK YOU!