This photograph hangs on the wall in my house and I see it every day. The older man behind the counter on the left is my grandfather, wearing an apron in his grocery store in Virginia, named Robin’s Market and Grocery. The man next to him is apparently a store worker whose name I do not know. The young boy in front of the counter is my father. A calendar on the wall shows that the photo was taken in January and that the 1st day of the month was a Friday. Knowing that my father was born in September of 1921, and searching the web for old calendars, I can tell that the year was 1926 and my father was 5 years old. I notice some familiar and not so familiar items in the picture that were for sale in this store. On the counter in front of my grandfather are boxes of Kraft cheese, descendants of which are still sold today. Above him however, are boxes of Kellogg’s Pep Cereal, a product which I have never heard of. A Wikipedia search informs me that Pep was introduced in 1923 and was a long-running rival to Wheaties which are still being sold in today’s supermarkets. As a fan of comic books and Superman, I found it interesting that Pep Cereal sponsored an early version of the Superman series broadcast on the Mutual Radio Network. A little more web searching takes me to YouTube where I can watch old television commercials for Pep, and I learn that Pep is “the build-up wheat cereal” that has “more builder-upper vitamins than any other ready to eat wheat cereal.” I wish I could learn even more about not just the grocery items for sale, but about my father and his father and their lives before, during and after 1926. Unfortunately, they are gone now and even the most powerful search engines available in 2013 do not provide me with any more information about Robin’s Market and Grocery. I am left staring at this photograph wondering about all of the mysteries that are hidden in its details.