{"id":19181,"date":"2015-07-05T08:09:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T12:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=19181"},"modified":"2023-09-21T11:17:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T15:17:13","slug":"courtesy-is-caring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/07\/05\/courtesy-is-caring\/","title":{"rendered":"Courtesy is Caring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Courtesy is Caring\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/18789657853\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/418\/18789657853_9070f3a820_z.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Courtesy is Caring\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>I meant to put this name-badge up on Fathers Day, but, of course, I couldn&#8217;t find it, and it&#8217;s only natural that I came across it when I was looking for something else. I never did find the other thing I was looking for.<\/p>\n<p><em>Anyway&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This name-badge with it&#8217;s anniversary pins attached represents my Dad&#8217;s professional career. He worked at the <em>Frankford Arsenal<\/em> for over three decades; retired; got tired of being retired and went to work at <em>Sears<\/em> when the <em>Deptford Mall<\/em> opened in 1975. Dad was a people person so he loved working at Sears and dealing with customers. I wish I had a tape recorder running to capture some of the stories he would tell. They were hysterically funny.<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of a tape recording of my dear, old Dad, I&#8217;ll put up this picture of him circa 1982. Dad didn&#8217;t care for the cuisine available at the Deptford Mall or the cost of that cuisine so he came home for lunch and dinner. Here he is enjoying lunch circa 1982. This was another of my <a href=\"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/the-photo-elective\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Photo Elective<\/a> shots that I snapped off to finish up a roll of film and probably to see what a Pan-X shot would look like with a flash.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/372\/18796477003_0727286503_z.jpg?resize=640%2C468&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Dad - Home for Lunch\" width=\"640\" height=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I meant to put this name-badge up on Fathers Day, but, of course, I couldn&#8217;t find it, and it&#8217;s only natural that I came across it when I was looking for something else. I never did find the other thing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/07\/05\/courtesy-is-caring\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,120,2093,3340],"tags":[33,148,158,3626,3624,3625,3622,122,137,118,3273,3623,480,336,121],"class_list":["post-19181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-curious-clutter","category-photography-2","category-the-photo-elective","tag-1980s","tag-148","tag-analog","tag-anniversary-pins","tag-chicago","tag-deptford-mall","tag-frankford-arsenal","tag-new-jersey","tag-philadelphia-college-of-art","tag-photography","tag-sears","tag-sears-tower","tag-usa","tag-vintage","tag-westville"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-4Zn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24950,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2019\/01\/30\/100-years\/","url_meta":{"origin":19181,"position":0},"title":"100 Years","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"January 30, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Today marks the 100th anniversary of my Dad's birth. As he used to say, \"Where did the time go?\" Dad was born and raised in Philadelphia, worked at the Frankford Arsenal, was a veteran of World War II, was a father of six -- two kids in his 20s, two\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/CLW-century.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/CLW-century.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/CLW-century.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":37704,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/06\/06\/peekers-and-other-true-facts\/","url_meta":{"origin":19181,"position":1},"title":"Peekers and Other True Facts","author":"Joe","date":"June 6, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"My brother Brian took this picture in the Summer of 1982 of the marquee on the side of what was the GCC Deptford Mall movie theater. 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I saw the train coming around the bend, so I put my camera on a 10 second timer and hoped for the best. Lucky shot. 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