Historic Hood River
Post War Italy
3-24-2016
Notes
I believe this is Pansy Dewitt on a post-WWII visit to Italy. She writes:
This is an awful picture of me taken in Florence ? what is the city hall, “Palazzo Vecchio” in background. Building on right Uffizi Gallery– filled with beautiful pictures of every kind– all moved during the war. Most of them put in underground caves– many found by our army, having been carried away by Germans.
The view has not changed much at all:
L.E
Pansy has become one of my favorite HR characters.
But,….she got older! Time didn’t stand still for her.
Longshot
Looks like it might be a hand forged chain behind her. and what appears to be a flight of two or three stairs dropping down to street level. The street must not have been a through thoroughfare at that time, though the stairs don’t show in the Google Maps view today.
nat
It’s still not a through thoroughfare. If you go into the google picture and do a 180, you can see the stairs she’s standing on.