Can you imagine the world 95 years ago? 1919 was my father’s birth year, as well as an all-around momentous time in our cultural history. About thirty years prior, modern baking powder came into availability as a leavening agent for the home cook. Leavening creates air pockets to make a cake or quick bread rise… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Leavening 1919
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Vintage Friday: 13 Spectacular Bad Boys
They’re sexy, wild, and trouble with a capital T. They’re the bad boys we love to love. Eddie Wilson – Heartthrob rebel rocker in the movie Eddie and the Cruisers. Can you say yum? Played by Michael Pare’. Ajax – Hotness from the cult classic movie The Warriors. Played by James Remar. Dean Winchester –… Continue reading Vintage Friday: 13 Spectacular Bad Boys
Vintage Friday: Beauty 1533
The ideal of beauty in the 16th century is epitomized by Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus: blonde hair, pale translucent skin through which the blue veins are clearly seen, and an enticing bosom. Wealthy women spent a great deal of time and money achieving the look of attractiveness most desired by the society of the… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Beauty 1533
Vintage Friday: P.I. Paradise
As a kid some of my favorite television shows featured suave private eyes adorned with glib sidekicks, torchy singers, and saltwater heaven. Not to mention urbane, shifty villains. Sun, sand, surf, and savvy proved to be the code of the day. Although we couldn’t see the aquamarine waters on a black and white tv set,… Continue reading Vintage Friday: P.I. Paradise
Vintage Friday: Ch–Ch–Ch– Changes 1972
In 1972 my beloved husband Ronnie and I were enjoying our first year of married life. With him working and me in college, we lived in our first little home in Weeki Wachee. I drove all the way to St. Pete for school. All around us changes were going on, some earthshaking to everyone at… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Ch–Ch–Ch– Changes 1972
Vintage Friday, Black Bottom Pie 1959
Home cooks demonstrated frugality in the 1950’s by creating basic recipes that could be minimally altered to achieve a variety of different results. This tactic allowed for economy in the pantry, as well as satisfied smiles from family members. The basis of the Black Bottom Pie recipe is a simple but delicious Vanilla Cream Pie.… Continue reading Vintage Friday, Black Bottom Pie 1959
Vintage Friday: Happy Mother’s Day
This four-generational photo is my grandmother, my mother, my son, and me—taking the picture! We lost my grandmother in 1980 and my mother in 1987. I’m so glad my son got to know them. Today he is a loving husband and father and a man admired by family and friends. My husband Ronnie and I… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Happy Mother’s Day
Vintage Friday: Young Ladies 1930
Looking at old pictures of my mother when she was a girl brings forth a flood of emotions and sweet nostalgia for the old days I never got to see. She is in the front row, second from the left. One of thirteen children, seven of whom were girls, her last remaining sibling passed away… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Young Ladies 1930
Vintage Friday: Mod 1970
When I first met my husband Ronnie, he had just been discharged from the Army and came to our town to stay with his uncle for a while. We fell in love and married about a year later over winter break while I was still in college. We had 43 1/2 wonderful years together, lots… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Mod 1970
Vintage Friday: Revere These Rockers
Recently childhood pals Meg, Larry, Vi, and I went to see my favorite band of the 1960s, Paul Revere and the Raiders. Those guys still wear revolutionary style costumes and rock harder than ever! Paul’s keyboard is in the shape of the front of a mustang. Back in the day my favorite of the group… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Revere These Rockers