Monday, August 1st, 1938 Alice and Jimmy took us mushroom picking up by Ashley Pond where we kids go to watch the moon over the mountain. We got bit up and scratched up and I got a handful of berries and a couple of mushroom and a spray of flowers. Wrote a letter to Benny…
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August Excerpts and Vintage Pictures
Sunday, August 14th, 1938 Got up at five and am not going to bed until 12. We three couples went to Misquamicut. Stayed all day, ate, swam, took pictures, got burned. We sang most of the way up and back. On the way home we stopped by the way to eat the rest of our…
Sunday Share: That is Some Crazy Caterpillar!
This Sunday Share is from a blog I adore. The poem is just amazing as well. I’ll share it here, but you gotta go check out the whole blog! It is from a blog called: Life Lessons If I Follow the Wandering Poet jdbphoto Who cares if I swim naked in my pool? All other…
The Vintage Photo Contest Winners!
Number 7 won by a landslide with 11 votes! Number 9 came up next with 5 votes: J.L. would be happy to know he won so many hearts! 15 and 29 tie for third with 4 votes each. Honorable mentions are 22 and 23 and they had three votes each and they get honorable…
Vote on Your Favorite Vintage Photo
I have been posting these amazing photos from my grandmother’s collection. I have been transcribing and writing about her diary for over a year but I only found the photos to go with all of those diary passages a couple of weeks ago. I am obsessed! This will be more fun the more people I…
The Set Up: Vote for your favorite vintage photo
Yay! Woot Woot! This is my 300th blog post. What a journey this has been. And I’m still in love with it all. I would like all of you to help me with a 300th post celebration. I need your involvement! Tomorrow’s post will show all of the vintage images I have posted so far…
Update
I couldn’t believe it. I was looking at pictures from 1936, 37, 38, and I kept saying “I remember this day!” And the clearly organized notes on the back of most of the images verified it was true. I had read about, transcribed, and wrote about the days these images captured, in some ways better…
Snatched Suitcase, Snapshots, Spin the Bottle, Spook, and The Social Event of the Year
Ernie, the ever traveling transplant from Vermont takes Babu’s Suitcase and “quite a few clothes” but she gets them back later in the month. Johnny Lech comes by and gives her some Snapshots, (I’m guessing these ones:) and tickets to a pop concert. There was a cast party where she played Spin the bottle. She…
Rumble Seat
I don’t know what is so adorable about reading about her sitting in the rumble seat of some friend’s car. NOTE: Neither of the above pictures are Babu’s. I found them on Pinterest. A whole board of rumble seat images! Oh my! I haven’t found one of Babu in the rumble yet, but I might….
Patches and Dan
“That’s Patches!” I said and pointed at a black and white, 80 year old brittle photograph. “And that’s Dan!” I said pointing at another. My husband was incredulous. How did I know the names of horses in these photographs? Then when I exclaimed that I remember the day when she bought those pants read the…
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