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Celebrations and Holidays

1940s

Picture From the Past — Playing Mary

on November 30, 2011

It was December 1948, and our kindergarten teacher at Garfield Grade School in Medina, Ohio, ...

Celebrations and Holidays

Saving her pieces of Christmas memories

on November 30, 2011

Putting up the Christmas tree always invokes memories of past Christmases. Dad always made a ...

1940s

Post World War 2 wedding fashion

on March 1, 2011

“My Marine and I planned to marry in January 1947,” explains Betty Gaunder, St. Joseph, ...

1960s

New Easter Sunday hats

on March 1, 2011

“My mother and I got new hats for Easter 1961, so we had our picture ...

1950s Little girl eats Thanksgiving turkey dinner in the 1950s.

First Thanksgiving turkey

on February 5, 2011

“Our family moved to California in the spring of 1948, and for the next few ...

1920s 1920s Wedding Party Photo

Flower girl’s wedding memories

on February 5, 2011

“I was the flower girl at my aunt Mayme Laing’s wedding in 1925,” shares Leona ...

1950s Women wearing 50s Easter dresses.

Dressed for Easter church

on February 5, 2011

“The five of us were practically inseparable,” says Joan Sink Cerullo (standing, center) of Beach ...