This little peanut and snack shop opened a few years after the war, and yet even now, after all those decades, its 90-year-old owner still isn’t ready to retire.
Photographs from a small group of islands
This little peanut and snack shop opened a few years after the war, and yet even now, after all those decades, its 90-year-old owner still isn’t ready to retire.
john says
Still full of beans! Amazing.
Lee says
Haha, very good. Wish I’d thought of that!
Harry says
Awesome find! I sure hope I’m not still working if I ever get to her age but I still find it reassuring! 🙂
Lee says
Yeah, know what you mean. Just getting to that age is an achievement, but still being able to work is an even bigger one.
cdilla says
It is great to find such places still open. It seems red tape and rent hikes have all but eliminated such places in the UK.
I hear and see more and more these days about how keeping working helps you live longer. Photographs like this seem to reinforce that. On the other hand, it also seems to go hand in hand with a hard life.
You’ve certainly managed to capture a colourful scene with this lady’s whole world arrayed about her. Well, maybe not whole, but a very large part of it.
Lee says
Yeah, it’s always a treat to see places like this. Surprising how many of them there still are as well, although obviously they are slowly disappearing…
That’s a good point. Some of the older people who are still working seem genuinely happy with their lot in life. Others not quite so much. More a case of carrying on ‘cos they don’t know anything else, rather than because they genuinely want to. This lady seemed to fall somewhere in between.