Tag: Throwback Thursday

Throwback Payphone

My friend Vincie and I were eating lunch at Totin’s Diner on Route 19. I had a breakfast at the counter just last Friday and enjoyed it. We were in the area and I said you’ve got to see this retro vibe. The boomerang design Formica top table , the red vinyl chrome chairs, the counter, the booths, the artwork and a classic checkerboard floor.

She ordered Liver and Onions and said it was very good. Had enough real mashed potatoes for a couple of meals.

Look what she spotted as she sat facing this direction. She encouraged me to photograph it for the blog. Good call.

How about that long coil cord?

The partial black and white picture to the right –24 Pro Bowls for a trio of Linebackers

Ooops- This has to be a replica Vincie noticed as we were leaving, it’s not rotary but push button!
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1984 or 5

Throwback Thursday. Forty years flew by.

Grafenwoehr Germany. I’m on the left with the floral skirt, holding the camera.

I was so much younger then
I’m older than that now

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1900’s Menus and Recipes

The first is a Class Banquet menu from my Grandmother’s 1906 Yearbook and the second menu and all the recipes from an old cookbook I dusted off. Its date was 1913.

Longbranch Crackers were 2 boxes for a quarter
Recipe for Macaroons
I love the word Piccalilli
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Hat in 1910 Photo

I wonder if my grandmother purchased her hat in this Millinery parlor in Rockford Illinois which had an ad in her 1906 high school yearbook.

Maternal Grandmother Charlotte Rowley Van Sickle and my Uncle John Rowley Van Sickle 1910

An ad in the 1906 Rockford High School Yearbook

I found this information (503?) on the store and there’s a photo but I don’t have permission to post it. It’s worth seeing but you’d have to Click this link to see “Photograph depicting Eckholm Hats at 503 E. State Street. This millinery shop was owned and operated by the Eckholm sisters, Ester M. and Sophie T. The woman standing in the doorway is probably one of the sisters but is unidentified.”

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Throwback Thursday 1953?

Thank you Cousin Andrew for converting this slide to digital. I’d never seen this photo before. It was so good of you to share.

Sitting on my mother’s lap not sure of date but maybe I’m one so 1953?
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My Dad and his Brother in 1918 and the Forties

You can see the photo is stuck in one of those old adhesive pages in an album. His brother Alan on the porch and below

Rrothers Alan and Roy in Lincoln Illinois
RJH on Right. My paternal grandfather on the left
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Old Hanky – or should it spell Hankie?

A Handkerchief with a nursery rhyme.

Found while cleaning

It looks like it was ironed at some point.

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Twentieth Reunion in 1990

“When time and fortune cast their spell

And youth’s bright years are o’er.

Our memories then shall fondly dwell

on scenes that are no more.

For busy, carefree high school days

And friendships tried and true

For these we lift our songs of praise

Dear Morristown to you.”

Alma Mater Morristown High School New Jersey

Not sure how one can remember these words but there you have it. Still in my memory.

Snagged from a Morristown High School post, this is one of two pics as everyone couldn’t fit in a single frame Class of 1970 had 551 students

I’m seated in the second row on the left next to my good BFF, who willingly accompanied me to our twentieth reunion. What a good friend. We were to attend our fiftieth in summer of 2020…….

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Throwback Thursday c.1922

My mother Marian in the knickers
Her brother Robert in cap to her right with their mother Charlotte behind him and brother John between in the back row and their father Judd to her left, just behind her and my Great Grandfather second from left

Uncle Edgar and Aunt Edna on the far right
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Vintage 1985 Throwback Thursday Guest Blog

My friend Joanne writes from Florida …..

“Back in the day we went to a lot of military formal events which were always a great chance to dress up and feel elegant. I only kept a few outfits from those days, but one was a beaded chiffon two piece that I bought in 1985 and wore many times over the years. I always loved that outfit. I had an invitation to a local formal military dinner (they call it a Dining Out) — my friend was out of town so she asked if I would be her husband’s date. I remembered the outfit was in a box so I dug it out. Steamed it. Extended the elastic waistband to fit my expanded waistline. Removed the huge shoulder pads. And wore it 38 years later …..Lots of compliments and I felt pretty special in it.

Same dress and earrings in 1991…military holiday ball.
Joanne and husband, COL Wayne Loers

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