Archive for January, 2010
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
January 1954
It must have been my Dad’s birthday party. He was born on Jan 20th. And that’s me, Kurt and Janine riding on his back.
1 Comment » - Posted in Dittrich, Warner by Barb
Sunday, January 24th, 2010
Aunt Betty
I was 3 months old here. This must be Aunt Betty’s apartment on Moffat Av. I think she owned the whole building, and there were maybe 4 apartments in the building. Once lightening struck her TV antenna, but there were just scorch marks on the bricks outside.
But that’s some wild wallpaper!
6 Comments » - Posted in Dittrich, Historical Trenton by Barb
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
Beasts of Alaska
You would be grouchy too if you had icicles on your elbows!
I repeat : Please do not pet the musk ox!
No Comments » - Posted in Amusing timewaster by Barb
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
That Look
Whew! Good thing I didn’t push Joannie off the edge! They were watching…
3 Comments » - Posted in Amusing timewaster, Dittrich by Barb
Monday, January 18th, 2010
LBJ?
The man to the left sure looks like President Johnson. Where could he and Uncle George have met?
4 Comments » - Posted in Dittrich by Tracy
Monday, January 18th, 2010
Princess Leia
Help me Obi Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope!
Helen Dittrich poses on couch in her nightgown, sometime in the early 1950s, gazing at an electric candle. The red ambiance maybe from a lens filter, or shooting without a flash.
1 Comment » - Posted in Amusing timewaster, Dittrich by Tracy
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Bunnies!
Words fail me….
3 Comments » - Posted in Amusing timewaster by Barb
Sunday, January 10th, 2010
Mexican Shopping Bag
This is a plastic supermarket shopping bag similar to the kind you might find here in the US. But the logo is very different. At first I thought this character was an alien or maybe a superhero. But when I looked more closely and did a translation, I found out he was really a cartoon [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Amusing timewaster, Mexico by Tracy
Saturday, January 9th, 2010
Magivered
Ilio the Dog gets too excited when he rides in the car. Usually Violet is with me when I take him for his annual check-up at the vet. But this year Violet wasn’t here. I had to think of something to keep him in the back seat, or he would try to [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Amusing timewaster, Dittrich by Barb
Saturday, January 9th, 2010
Munich in the 1960s
My parents saved this almost 50-year-old brochure about the city of Munich, Germany with their travel stuff. It’s very much a product of the mid-60s. Just look at the brightly colored, semi-abstract cover in bilious yellow, chalky blue, and plum purple:
The two onion-domed towers to the left are those of Munich cathedral. Not far from [...]
