Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

notbob1959 t1_iy4q1tq wrote

I don't understand your title OP. Where is Part One?

Anyway this photo has been posted a buttload of times along with this other photo taken at the same time and we know that the woman is indeed his wife. They were married in 1934 and the photo was taken by Dorothea Lange in 1939.

He was still married to Vivian and with her in the 1940 census.

He goes to prison between 1940 and 41. Vivian files for divorce. He comes to her house when he's out in 1942, according to a newspaper article he says to discuss domestic matters, and she ends up shooting him in the abdomen.

There is also another photo of him linked in this comment that has not been posted.

Edit: Found the Part One referenced in the title. A colorization of the other version of the photo was posted earlier today but subsequently deleted by the moderators. I am not sure of the reason it was deleted but I do know that the OP there is a repost bot that copies popular posts and old comments to appear human.

86

AccomplishedCry2020 OP t1_iy5c953 wrote

That's really interesting, thank you! This picture is different from the one I've always seen posted (different angle and Vivian is smoking here) and I thought people would like to see a slightly different take on the same couple.

11

notbob1959 t1_iy5ydfo wrote

>This picture is different from the one I've always seen posted (different angle and Vivian is smoking here)

I thought this one had been posted before too but I just searched and if it has I couldn't find it. It has been uploaded to imgur but looks like you are correct and it hasn't been posted to reddit before. Probably because the cropping and her smoking make this one less visually appealing. Or it could be that the other version is just more widely spread around the internet since it was first posted to shorpy.com in 2007 (it along with the other 2 photos were available at the Library of Congress before that but their online photo archive is not that well known).

Sorry for accusing you of reposting a commonly reposted image.

Another bit of information related to Thomas (his full name was Tillman Thomas Ursel Cave) can be found in the comments at shorpy.com:

>Then, a tragic story from the May 4, 1952 issue: "Kelso Grid Star Dies in Collision". It reads:

>>KELSO, Wash. May 3 (AP) - Richard "Rip" Raappana, 24, well-known southwest Washington athlete, was killed early Saturday. His automobile swerved into a Consolidated Freightways truck and trailer a mile north of here on the Pacific Highway, the state patrol reported.

>>Louise N. Robinson, 21, Longview, a passenger in his car, was injured critically.

>>The state patrol said the truck driver was Thomas U. Cave, 39, of Portland.

>>Raappana was an all-round athlete at Kelso high. He played college football for Eastern Washington college at Cheney and last fall was with the University of Hawaii in Honolulu.

4

Ti3fen3 t1_iy6zhdj wrote

Sounds like she found a bona fide man while he was away

2