Archive for January, 2009
Sunday, January 25th, 2009
Is It a Real Flower?
Or something the Martians put here to spy on us?
No Comments » - Posted in Amusing timewaster by Barb
Saturday, January 24th, 2009
Charity Walk
Every May, the visitor industry has a charity walk through Waikiki. At every stop, when you get your card stamped, you also get some food. It’s the only “marathon” type walk where you gain weight!
And then at the end, there’s entertainment, and a raffle. Oh yes, and more food! They serve plate lunches at the [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in Dittrich by Barb
Saturday, January 24th, 2009
Pin-up Boy
What do you call a tummy paunch in both Spanish and Italian? A panza. A little panza is a panzita. But a giant panza, a panzaonno.
1 Comment » - Posted in Dittrich by Tracy
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Chanticleer
This is an amazing red sun flower that we saw at a really neat place called Chanticleer. Joan, Valerie and I went there last Summer. It’s someone’s huge estate full of all sorts of gardens. They open it to the public, and what I really liked was that it wasn’t commercialized at all. The only [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Dittrich by Barb
Sunday, January 18th, 2009
My Future Dining Room
This is from the Longwood 1971 collection, and I just love it.
1 Comment » - Posted in Dittrich by Barb
Sunday, January 18th, 2009
Bubble Blower and Card Shark
Two 1988 snapshots of Emily and Jack DeBolt as young teenagers.
Emily is waving a bubble stick in the Dittrick backyard. She’s wearing a … well, it was hard to describe, but a toga-like pastel plaid one-piece romper suit with baggy shorts on the bottom, symptomatic of the fashion excesses of the 1980s. We should [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Warner by Tracy
Sunday, January 18th, 2009
Mexican Cookery
Here in the US we often assume that “exotic” cuisines (Mexican, Chinese, French, etc.) were not attempted in the average American kitchen until the 1970s, when food manufacturers, sensing a void, began mass-producing chow mein noodles and taco shells, with recipe booklets to match. But Mexican food was well-established in certain parts of the country [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Mexico, Recipes and food, Vintage Publications by Tracy
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Barb Wire
I was a year and a half old, and I’m thinking this was at Aunt Nan’s house because she’s the one who had the potty. Uncle Joe’s nickname for me was Barb Wire. I love my little saddle shoes!
9 Comments » - Posted in Dittrich by Barb
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Vi’s version of Day at the Beach
Not exactly The Birds, but it still felt weird.
One nested in my hair around 7:25.
8 Comments » - Posted in Dittrich by Violet
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
A Day at the Beach
One day last Summer, some friends from work , myself and Violet went to Kailua Beach Park. We had a pizza delivered to us there. Alas! It wasn’t quite what we ordered. Fortunately the pizza delivery guy was the son of another co-worker (small island, heh). He was glad to go back and get us [...]
