July 24, 1948 Robert and Anna

Today is my grandparents 62nd wedding anniversary! They were married at 5 pm in Maspeth, NY.

Here's their song!!!

I like this song too :)

Flower Girl

Another wedding pic. This time my grandmother is the flower girl! Her brother is the ring bearer. The bride is my grandmother's paternal aunt. My grandmother looks around 4 years old in this photo, so I'm dating it 1930 (she was born in '26). The wedding dress still looks '20s-ish. My grandmother's dress was supposedly handmade by her mother (who was a seamstress).

Since I put a song for the other wedding pic :) 1930

Signor Calogero

My great-grandpa Charlie looking all dapper.

It was probably taken sometime in the 1940s in Babylon, NY (possibly....maybe :0) ).

I'm not a big car fan, but I do love photos of old cars....old technology in general. It was taken at such a good angle too.

Vintage 1910s Corset Ad

Found this on Youtube. I love old (extremely old) advertising. I just wanted to share. :)

Rum and Coca-Cola and Fun on the Beach

I've been posting a lot of photos from the 1920's lately. I thought it'd be nice to change it up a little bit.

Here is my grandmother Anna (the one on top) with a girlfriend of hers sometime in the mid-1940's. It was most likely taken in the Rockaways here on Long Island.

They are all dolled up to go to the beach! Their bathing suits are so cute too. The beginning of the two-piece. Still conservative at this point in time, but we're getting there.

It is so strange seeing grandparents like this. Young and goofy :) My grandmother probably is close to my age in the picture. It just makes me wonder, what if I met her back then. Would we have been friends? Could she relate to me?

I like to have a soundtrack for everything, and I thought this song would go great with my post today. It's from 1945. Around about the time the photo was taken. The lyrics are.....hmmm....well.....interesting.......if it's about what I think it's about. You be the judge.

Tavern music

I've been in love with this song since I heard the first note a couple of months ago. I mean who doesn't love old funky Gaelic/Celtic songs?.......hmm?.....Ok maybe just me then. Excuse this randomness. I'll get back to the posting pictures soon. I just had to share my love for this song. It's Called "Slingshot" by Gaelic Storm. Cool Band. As you can tell by my music player on the bottom of my blog....... I love folk songs. :P

Solitair Cake Make-up

I recently came across this amazing blog called Glamour Daze about vintage fashion and beauty. It has tons of great photos and video that date as early as 1900. There's a lot of interesting facts and tid-bits about the history of fashion and beauty. It's definitely worth a peek! Anyway, After looking through "Glamour Daze," I was inspired to post my vintage make-up ad that I found tucked away. I love vintage advertising with a passion, and I fell in love with this ad instantly. I found it in a page saved from a newspaper dated June 8, 1952.

It Had to Be You

As promised, here is one of the wedding photos from my great-grandparents' wedding in 1924.

The photo is a little discolored and faded from being under a futon for the last 50 years. I played around with the contrast and saturation to bring out as much detail as I could. I wish I could have scanned it. There are a lot of little details that aren't clear in this digital camera pic.

The men look so handsome in their tuxedos. I love the maid of honor's dress! It looks very '20s!

I imagined that this song was played at their wedding.........

The Little Gentleman

How adorable is this picture? I don't know who this little boy is, but he has to be one of my grandmother's older cousins. I say this because he is in my great-grandmother's wedding photo. I think he is even wearing the same tuxedo. Maybe this was taken at the same time the wedding photos were taken. My great-grandparents were married in 1924, so I'm dating this photo the same year.

My favorite part about this picture is his hair: parted down the middle. It's such a 1910s/1920s hair style. It would look so strange if a boy did his hair like that now.

I noticed that many of the photos I have from the 1920s/30s are printed on the back of postcards, including this photo. I've read that there was this postcard craze in the beginning of the twentieth century. Maybe that is why I'm finding so many. Half of the ones I have are in Italian, and the other half is in English. This one was in English, which makes sense because my great-grandparents were married in America.

I'm dying to post the photos I have from my great-grandparent's wedding. They are amazing. They are just way to big to scan. I've been trying to take a picture of them using my digital camera, but they weren't coming out good. I'll keep trying....... Hopefully soon.

Rosie and Friend

Another great rooftop photo from the '20s. The woman on the left is my great-grandmother Rosie (or as my family likes to call her Nanie Rosie). The other is the same woman from my earlier post La Bellissima Regina .

They're wearing the same dress! Was this planned or was it a coincidence? Maybe the store had a sale.