I've got some old photos I found of myself...back in the dark ages! I don't remember being shy at these times. Maybe earlier I was.
And a few more ancient photos (that happened to be saved in the same folder!)
In 1961 or 62 I was a bridesmaid for my best friend Rosemary. This house is where my parents lived from 1960 to 1965. Since I was in college at the time, I only lived there during holidays and summers. It never felt like home to me.
While I was in college, I had a part in "The Boyfriend." I had only minor stage fright and forgot my lines once. I did like wearing that rose velvet flapper dress!
My boyfriend's MG-TD, which drove us from Virginia to New London, CT in the summer of 1962. He was in the Coast Guard. A year after we broke up, I married another man who was in the Coast Guard (who I'd known before.) Those Coasties had something special, I guess.
My profile probably cut for me in the late 60s or early 70s.
Great photos! I love the one of you on stage.
ReplyDeleteThanks Robin: I am in contact with one of these cousins, who was not able to give me her memories of this, since she was so young. I'm thinking that first photo may well have been 1948! And I have no idea where I got it from. Maybe one of the other cousins posted it to Ancestry!
DeleteWonderful selection of photos. I love that there are vehicles peaking out of the first photo — the bike and the car in the distance. If the car is a Dodge, we had the same one when I was a child. And I can see why you would love the velvet flapper dress. It’s stunning!
ReplyDeleteThe five cousins is charming. Distant cousins always were a challenge growing up. They were family and yet strangers too. Perhaps those cousin encounters give us our first experience with feeling uncomfortably shy and then learning to make friends. I'm still working on it. Taking a little MG any distance beyond 100 miles counts as a road trip adventure. Perhaps in the 60s on the US routes it was slower and more picturesque.
ReplyDeleteLovely post. I love the one with the red car.
ReplyDeleteLove the photos. You look cute and not the least bit shy.
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