Grandad and Grandma Hansen at home..

            This is a copy of a copy of a very poor quality scan of a picture of my Granddaddy (Henry Frederick) Hansen, who was always called 'Harry' that I can remember, and Grandma (Doris Ida) Hansen. They're sitting on the Forbidden Couch in their formal living room in their house on Broadway Street in Beaumont, Texas. 

It's the only house I can remember them living in. It was a large, two-story home, with a brick front porch that had pillars and steps that as children we would slide down the sides of. It also had a portico over the side entrance that family used as the main entrance, with a bathroom at ground level, just inside the door. 

That bathroom had a jalousie window in the door, as did the sun porch and the back porch. Jalousie windows allowed the breeze to ventilate things better than a normal window, which is great for a porch or sun room, but I always thought the bathroom was a weird place for a window in the door, even though the glass was frosted for privacy..

There was a large building on the rear of the lot that we called "The Shop". It had the office Granddad used to run his plumbing and air conditioning business, as well as warehouse space for supplies they used to stock the plumbing trucks. At least, it seemed like a large shop to me at the time.. 

I remember Granddad's big metal desk with notes under the glass top, and the rotary-dial telephone with the shoulder-rest on the receiver, and Granddad leaning back in his metal chair with the standard green leather cushions, talking in very serious tones about jobs that were going on while smoking the cigarettes that would kill him in the end. 

He was always a very strong, robust, outdoors kind of guy - very clean and professional, even when he was fishing or relaxing at their beach house. He always smelled of cologne and the hair cream that he used to keep his hair in place. But that only made his death all the more traumatic as lung cancer destroyed his body.

Taken on: August 11, 2021

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