random stuffs mostly vintage and found
The year was 1982. The Baby Boomers were growing up which left the post-WW2 suburb of Tonawanda, NY with more schools then students. The smaller K-2 schools built quickly for the boomer kids had already started to close (I was supposed to attend Horace Mann school but it closed the spring before I started- it […]
Mary apparently was also a blond. And today in not at all realistic Mary’s we have the blond haired oh so white Mary. Again we’re talking about a Middle Eastern/ North African Jewish or Muslim woman. She was not white & wasn’t a blond. Her Smokey eyes are on point though. (Although she’s been traveling […]
Slide scans from the 1960s
Saint Joseph’s New Cathedral History (via preservationready.org and Kay Nou = Our House) In the early years of the 20th century, Roman Catholic Bishop Charles Henry Colton began plans to construct an even grander cathedral several miles north of the existing church, along Buffalo’s Delaware Avenue, where the well-heeled lived. The new structure would be build for $500,000 […]
How old is this bottle? I’m pretty sure the only reason my parents had it was because flavored coffee post dinner party was a thing in the 1970s. Mom rarely drank and dad is more of a beer/ cheap ass boxed wine sort of guy.