This month will bridge the gap between the diary I started first, 1935, and then the diary I found, 1934. I stopped in Summer 1935 go go back to 1934. Now when I go back to 1935 it will be the start of autumn again! She’ll be starting college then. Exciting. In December, 1934 Babu…
Category: This week in 1934
The Last Half of August, 1934
She makes it home and she is glad!! However, Jeanette greets her with a letter that never got to Babu while she was in camp. It reveals that Drobey has found another girl. Babu seems less upset by that and more upset by the fact that, at first, he wont speak to her when she…
The Beginning of August, 1934
For the first eight days of August she is home sick. She expects to be leaving the first Saturday and is not and states: “Honestly I feel terrible.” And: “If I don’t have something to do here I’ll go screwy.” So she paints her nails and goes to church and plays horse shoes and goes…
May, 1934
Babu spends a large amount of time in May – and possibly other months – reading “L” stories with Zosh. Does L stand for love? Was she reading romance novels? I giggled as I wrote that. She described that phenomenon of Spring thaw and what happens to people perfectly. It got warm, everyone is out…
March, 1934: Dreams
March was a month for dreaming. On March 1st she writes about having a dream where her and Zosh were trying on evening gowns and she day dreams about having the chance to know Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford, “or at least see them really.” She also not only day dreams about being bridesmaids at…
Febuary, 1934
She stays up late reading “Love Lightly.” She squirms under the stern gaze of Mr. Fitzgerald, (I get the feeling he is a principal.) She is not happy about getting a C in History and like most teens blames it on her teacher. She goes to see “Moulin Rouge” with Franchot Tone (not Ewan McGregor)…
January, 1934
Howdy, time travelers! I have wrapped up July 1935 and here I am, back in the cold but in 1934. I wont lie, I’m looking forward to being back in summer but I am so excited to have found an even earlier journal. The two most exciting things about it so far? One, to really…
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