This second segment of the album of the Poole Twins will include some head and shoulder portraits. Some are identified and some are not. You can decide which is which, Jodie or Jackie.
From two separate "antique" malls in Amarillo come this set of photographs.
The photographs are of two women who were twins. Their photographs were in a jumble with several others but the connections were obvious. From the subjects and the sparse notations on the reverse of a few, this album of the Poole Twins was assembled.
A few of them are identified on the reverse but most are not. It is difficult to tell them apart.
It appears the two were both teachers. They must have touched many lives.
They are pictured individually, occasionally with a friend or a group but mostly just the two of them. Most importantly, they are pictured with some of their school classes.
According to City Directories of the time, they apparently lived together all their lives. They lived at 503 S Gillespie, Pampa, TX and then they moved to a home at 321 Tuke, in Pampa, across the street from the school where they taught. Both buildings are gone now.
How did these family photographs become abandoned photographs? We will probably never know. But here we pay tribute to two women who apparently dedicated their lives to teaching children.
I wish I had known them.
The Poole Twins.
On reverse:
Jodie
1947-48
School portrait 1929
On Reverse:
Jack Poole
Grade 6
age 12
On reverse:
Miss Jackie Poole
Oct. 1, 1938
Age 21 yrs
Date stamped
August 9, 1939
This is one of only two snapshots that include both twins but not dressed alike.
The other is on page three.
Date stamp on reverse:
Feb. 15, 1940
Date stamped
March 19, 1941
On Reverse
Miss Jackie Poole
box 114
Phone 458 J
Pampa, Texas
Mr. & Mrs. J. A. Poole
On reverse:
Miss Joe Poole
Pampa, Texas
Snapped: Monday
October21, 1940
Girls Basket Ball team
The twins are the third and fourth from right.
The twins are second and third from right.
Dressed alike.
Still in matching clothes.
On Reverse:
Mother - Jack - Joe - Jim - Garnet - Opal
On camping trip
There's that trellis again.
On Page Three, we go to school!
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