As I have written about before, Babu has had a friend that always interested me. She wasn’t part of the “main core” of friends but she was important. Please read this post about Johnny Krol before continuing! Who is Johnny Krol? Wednesday, April 26th, 1939 Because I didn’t say hello to Johnny last night,…
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April A-Z: Grand Adventures and Ghost Towns
The desert has such an allure. I want to move out there. I want to live out there. At the very least, I cannot wait to visit again. That will have to wait as I, sigh, live in New England and, sigh, have to work for a living. There will be an adventure for us…
April A-Z: Franklin D.
Wednesday, October 30th, 1940 The president of the U.S. Franklin D. Roosevelt visited Springfield today and we all saw him. We were hanging out of our office windows as he went by and he looked up at us, smiled and waved. It was a thrill and I waved and shouted with the rest. Jake and…
April A-Z: The Blow Up, September, 1940
I would bet some of you will be able to relate. I currently have 19 posts in various forms of no where near publish-ready hanging out at the top of my screen. What a great mine for posts when looking for gold during the April A-Z Challenge. This is a post I began a while…
Throw Back Thursday: Jakey
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…
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…
September, 1940: Nat and Stretch
It occurs to me that there are some characters in these pages I know better than others. Zosh, Jake, and Ernie are the mainstays that I’ve read plenty about and heard plenty of stories about in “modern times.” Well, Nat was also an important third to the Zosh and Emily, (that’s Babu!), show. It’s a…
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…
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