My maternal grandfather Judd Dewitt Van Sickle Durand, Illinois
Born Sept 4,1887 Died-August 20, 1975
Judd Dewitt Van Sickle
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.
The partial black and white picture to the right –24 Pro Bowls for a trio of Linebackers
1984 or 5
Throwback Thursday. Forty years flew by.
Grafenwoehr Germany. I’m on the left with the floral skirt, holding the camera.
I’m older than that now
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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…….
Throwback Thursday c.1922
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