Sunday, August 6th, 1939 It dawned a hot, glorious day, and after church, Ernie, Billy, Jakey, and I started for Westerly. Jimmy’s girl was still sleeping so we went without them. We spent all day in the sun, slapping sun lotion all over ourselves. I don’t think this business of showing Jakey I like…
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May, 1939 The Story of Some Pictures
I have to admit, May, 1939 was much of the same as the month before. I don’t know if it’s just me, but that makes it no less interesting! And, in fact, I did have a mystery solved. I cannot believe I forgot to mention this when I wrote about April. There have been some…
Look What I Found!
Remember the Nee Wah formal last month? Oh wait. I always do that. I mean, the Nee Wah formal of January, 1939. Since I just transcribed February of 1939 I look at the month before as “last month.” The Nee Wah formal is this post here. Go ahead, click on it. I updated the post!…
Excerpts, September, 1938, Grafton Vermont
She has such a good time when she is in Vermont with Ernie. This summer, Babu visits at the end of August through the beginning of September for almost two weeks. She writes about her hesitation to leave and her relief to be home, but in the middle there certainly is a lot of fun. …
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…
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…
Excerpts from June, 1938
Thank you for voting yesterday on your favorite vintage photo. If you haven’t already – I’d really like some more votes. 🙂 Click on yesterday’s post and vote in the comments. Share if you would like to. I’d appreciate that. I am going to give it until the end of the day tomorrow and then…
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….
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