I’ve been writing a bit about the physical dairies themselves. Check out these posts: Retro Wednesday: Diaries: Part One Throw Back Thursday: Advice Way to bury the lead, but the most interesting, an controversial thing in this diary study, is what was written on the diary pages themselves. The other older diaries shared important events…
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Retro Wednesdays: Cocktails: Part Two
Here is part one from two weeks ago: Retro Wednesday: Cocktails As The Rescued Photo keeps finding out information about the “extras” in these pages like Stanley Midura and Milton Adams, I keep finding out about what Babu says she’s drinking. In January, 1941, Babu writes: Teddy gave us some straight Golden Wedding yesterday and…
Retro Wednesday: Diaries: Part One
Hard cover, daily records, uniformed, informative. The books Babu recorded her life into are intriguing even without her delightful quips, naive adorableness and astute observations. Quite a few of them were obtained from Forbes and Wallace, a department store who produced diary after diary that looked exactly the same every year. Not at all feminine for…
Retro Wednesday: Cocktails
If Babu goes somewhere and has a drink, we read about it in her expert record taking: We had a drink and went to Stretch’s, drank there, went to Eddie’s, drank and ate supper there, came to Jake’s had two or 3 drinks, then to Nat’s and last of all Zosh’s. If only she ever…
Retro Wednesday: The Great New England Airshow: Part Two
Wednesday came around again and I decided I just wasn’t done writing about this. Before you begin this post, refresh your memory about last week’s post, if you wish. Retro Wednesday: The Great New England Airshow Also, please check out last Thursday’s post as well where I explain the picture of Babu and Ernie by…
Retro Wednesday: The Great New England Airshow
A rumble, kind of a cracking rumble. A kind of cracking, tearing, rumble. And then it is out from behind the clouds, overhead, and then gone. Fighter planes and stunt men, and much, much more, put on quite a quite a show at Westover Airforce Base this weekend. What could be better than standing on…
Retro Wednesday Preview!: The Great New England Airshow
Fighter planes and stunt men, and much, much more, put on quite a quite a show at Westover Airforce Base this weekend. What could be better than standing on the hot tarmac watching these enormous metal birds tear through the sky, twist at high speeds, make a roar that sounds like the sky ripping open,…
Retro Wednesday: The Springfield Airport
Leave our home and head to the top of Bonneville. Take a left and go down Fairview which shifts onto Abbey Memorial. Pass the cemetery and Szot Park and come to the lights. Take a right then a quick left, unless you want some Papa John’s. You are in what my husband and I and…
Retro Wednesday: Trolleys Part Two
Read part one here: Retro Wednesday: Trolleys Part One There were the times she had to wait for the trolley (and faced repercussions,) Friday, January 22nd, 1937 We lost our game with the Juniors 30 to 28 but it was a pretty good game. After school we had a practice then I bought a tan sport…
Retro Wednesday: Trolleys Part One
This is where something historical, the trolley system, meets something more. Something intimate. I read some research and I can tell you when the trolley system was put into place and when it was dismantled. Who funded them, who approved and disapproved of them, I can tell you this history of these machines even in…
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