Since the start, I was looking for one name in all of these pages, and from the start, it would appear from time to time. Like when the very story Babu would tell me about her first time meeting him appeared, exactly how she told it to me, in the pages of her diary: Some…
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Retro Wednesday: Diaries Part Two
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…
Andy Jablonski, Give It Up!
Monday, September 30th, 1940 After supper I took a bath and got dressed for choir. We gave a party for Mary Cyron who is to be married soon and what a time we had! Had fun with most all the boys but Andy Jablonski kept pretty close to me all evening calling me darling and…
Sunday Share: Kitsch
I’m not sure if I have shared this blog before. If I haven’t, well then it’s about time! I get almost the same amount of glee reading this blog as I do with Babu’s diary project. (Understandably not the same amount of glee but it’s a wonderful blog!) The blog is titled The Pretty and…
Throw Back Thursday: Advice
I am about to have a lot to say about the advice given with in the pages of Babu’s diary. Next Wednesday’s “Retro Wednesday” post is going to be the second half of my study into they diaries themselves. I was just reminded of an old passage and I will link it here: Cooperate with…
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…
We Had Some Narrow Escapes
Were cars in 1940 harder to drive or is Babu just really bad? Sunday, April 7th, 1940 Maybe I spent all of a half hour at home today. After church Jakey took me riding and gave me my first driving lesson. He got provoked a few times but on the whole we did well. Admittedly,…
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…
June, 1940: Taunton
I’m not sure if I shared with you that the choir Babu is a part of had a trip planned around a concert in Taunton, MA. It looked as if Babu would not be able to attend due to her attendance at rehearsals: Monday, June 24th, 1940 I don’t think I can go to Taunton…
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