Throwback Thursday – Page 4 – Ruth E. Hendricks

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.*

October 11, 2023October 12, 2023 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Throwback ThursdayTags: beaded gown, fashion, formal wear, friendship, guest blog, memories, military ball, photography, postaday, Throwback Thursday, vintage 6 Comments

Throwback Thursday Knitting for Barbie Retro Kit

I took this photo at the Heinz History Center in March 2016. The canister is from c.1962. There are a couple of these old canisters at eBay or Etsy.I found this photo in the archives tonight. The kit could make a “fitted coat and a pillbox hat”.

I’ve knit basic tube dresses for my granddaughter’s Barbies, using leftover sock yarn but I’d like to see what the fitted coat looked like.

October 4, 2023 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Barbie, childhood, doll, doll clothes, knitting, photography, postaday, Throwback Thursday 12 Comments

Third from the left

That’s me. At our grandparents house.

Lincoln, Illinois 1955.

My sister Mary and brother David are on my right. Cousins John and Paul seated at my left.

September 20, 2023 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Throwback ThursdayTags: childhood, cousins, family, grandparents, Illinois, photography, postaday, siblings, Throwback Thursday 6 Comments

My Father’s Paternal Grandmother

With her sons-Glenn on left.
My paternal grandfather Floyd on the right.
**Rosa Dayton Hendricks** passed in 1958.
Son Glenn passed in 1959.
My father’s father passed in 1967.

August 30, 2023 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Throwback ThursdayTags: ancestors, family, father, Find a Grave, genealogy, great grandmother, paternal, photography, postaday, Throwback Thursday 8 Comments

Throwback Thursday 1937

Pencilled on the back of this 5×7 photo is the date-1937. No other details or notes but that clue means this photograph of my father standing by a chalkboard, was taken in Champaign-Urbana, at the University of Illinois. Looks like his handwriting. I transcribed the handwriting as best I could, from a closeup crop. See below. I see most of the women are wearing hats.

What I can decipher.

Why are we in college?

1. Prepare to make money

2. “Get” an education

3. Sent by parents

4. Find a Life mate

What place will religion ____?____

in our college life ____________?

My father graduated in 1939 and went on to Yale Divinity School to become a minister in 1942.

July 20, 2023July 20, 2023 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Throwback ThursdayTags: 1937, black and white, family, father, photography, postaday, religion, students, Throwback Thursday, University of Illinois 8 Comments

Relatives,Sometime in the 1940s

My first cousins Paul in front and John B Van Sickle with their mother Mary Kathryn Babcock Van Sickle (1905-2005) in the middle
on the left is her Aunt Mina Marida Reynolds(no dates found) and
Mary Lillian Reynolds Babcock (1869-1965) is on the right so my cousins’ maternal Grandmother and Aunt Mina’s sister

(My Aunt Kathryn was married to my mother Marian’s brother John Rowley Van Sickle)

I texted my cousin Andrew to ask permission to post and he sent to me to his Uncle John B who has the original photo. Two memories cousin John has is that “Auntie lived with them and breathed her last at Christmas.” “I remember a ride from Freeport to Durand with her last surviving hen with us in the back seat.”A

nd Grandma lived “long snd lordly in North Rockford convalescent hospital for 12 years with her Bible disbound through leafing”

July 12, 2023 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Throwback ThursdayTags: 1940s, Illinois, memories, photography, postaday, Relatives, Throwback Thursday, vintage 6 Comments

Summer 1973 Throwback Thursday

Morrisonville, Illinois.

Aunt Vesta, Me, Gram Hendricks (who taught me to knit in 1956)

June 14, 2023 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Throwback ThursdayTags: family, grandmother, Illinois, knitting, Morrisonville, paternal grandmother, photography, Pittsburgh, postaday, Relatives, summer, Throwback Thursday 11 Comments

Spring 1918

From my Grandmother’s album. Durand Illinois. My mother Marian with her brothers Robert (4) and John (8). Her 6th birthday would be in the coming September.

May 31, 2023 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Throwback ThursdayTags: 1918, childhood, Durand Illinois, family, grandmother’s album, mother, photography, postaday, Throwback Thursday, uncles, vintage 5 Comments

Throwback Thursday Childhood Favorites

My grown up children have families of their own now. This little grouping of their special childhood toys is one I took using a Polaroid transfer process. If you’ve been a follower for a time you might remember this picture. That was the first sock monkey I ever made, about 47 years ago. You know I have trouble disposing of anything with a face looking at me. I actually matted and framed it. Was dusting it today and felt nostalgic. Thought it was a good Throwback Thursday from the archives.

Ned, the Cabbage Patch premie, came with a different name when Laura received it for her 4th birthday in 1987. Fessie the Pound Puppy is in Ohio these days. And little green doggie resides in Zagreb now.

May 3, 2023 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: childhood, family, photography, Polaroid transfer process, postaday, Pound puppy, sock monkey, Throwback Thursday, toys 7 Comments

Late 1950s Throwback Easter Outfits -Hat, Gloves and a New Dress

How about a caption contest for the first photo?

Easter 1957 backyard under the cherry tree Montclair New Jersey
Dress is pink shiny stripes with a black velvet ribbon

Newark New Jersey with sister Mary and Brother David says April 1960 on the edge but the date taken is April 1959 I’m on the left with the beret

Montclair NJ 1955 with my brother David.
Might not be Easter as there’s no hat

April 5, 2023 by Ruth Categories: fashion, PhotographyTags: 1950's, childhood, Easter outfits, family, New Jersey, photography, postaday, Throwback Thursday 9 Comments

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