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Monday, February 20, 2023

Vintage Pictures and Easter Gifts





 

 Welcome to Debbie-Dabble Blog!!

 
I am so happy you decided to stop by!!
 
 
I am now posting TWICE  a week !!!
 
 I will be posting on MONDAY and FRIDAY!

 Since the Holiday Season is almost over ( Only Easter left) for me, I am dropping back down to 2 posts a week...

I will admit that 3 posts a week has been grueling and very time consuming and even stressful for me....

I was also told that 3 posts a week is hard to keep up with for some of my readers and I can understand that as I find that happening with myself in reading Blogs....
 
 I truly understand as we all lead busy lives with so many things going on like work, family commitments and so much more that there seems to be no time left to just sit down and read Blogs....

So, I will be posting on MONDAYS and FRIDAYS unless I am participating in a special Blog event....

I will see how that works out for me....


As always, click on each picture if you would like to enlarge it....
 
 
 In my last post, I shared a project I recently did....






 
 
Click HERE if you missed that post!!
 
 
I have been going through albums of my Mother's pictures that were taken from the time she was a baby to when I got my first camera which was when I was about 10 years old... 

I will also be working on doing another Gallery wall on the opposite side of the stairs using some of my parent's certificates, papers and pictures.....

I shared that I found wedding pictures of my Dad's siblings....


I am happy to say that I was able to send out 4 of these pictures to my cousins whose parents are in these pictures....
 

I also want to share a few pictures I found of my Parent's Wedding Day....

These were taken in Saint Mary's of Czestochowa Church in my parent's home town....

I received all my sacraments including Baptism and Marriage in that church and both my sons were also baptized there....

Several years ago, after the much needed consolidation of churches and parishes here in NEPA, the Church was torn down.....




My parents were married in June of 1942

 
The Best Man, my Uncle Midge and Maid of Honor, my Mother's next door neighbor....



Love those chandy's but I do not remember them as the church was remodeled and smaller more energy efficient ones were installed and those are the ones I remember...

Also, it was not decorated as elaborately for my wedding as it was for theirs....
 


All of my family who got married at Saint Mary's have pictures taken on these steps.....

Just like my parents did...


And just like I did....


These are some of the pictures taken later that day at my mother's parent's home....

This is my parent's and my Paternal Grandfather who immigrated here from Poland.....


He died before I was born and my Dad's Mother died long before.....
 
Notice the cigar in my Dad's hand!!
 
This is a picture of my parent's with my Mother's parents later that day after my Mother changed out of her Wedding dress.....
 

 
 This is a picture taken in 1945 with my grandparents.....
 
 
 
I laughed when I saw that my grandfather has a cigar in his hand....

Like Father, like Son, I guess as I have countless photos of my Dad with a cigar in his hand including in my Wedding pictures!!! 
 
LOL!!

This is a picture of my grandparents, Adam and Agnes, with their 8 children.....

 
I believe my Dad is on the far right next to his Dad....
 
This picture of all of the Kolojejchick Siblings, except for my Aunt Della, was taken in 1952

 
My Dad is in the second row on the far left...
 
I found this picture of my Mother going to a prom.....


It was customary ( 1930's) then to go with a relative, unchaperoned, so she went with a first cousin....
 
And this is a picture of our first house with my Mother and sister on the porch .....

 
My Dad built this home after returning from WWII and I lived there until I was 4 years old.....


I would die for a porch like that now!!!!
 

My Mother was the only child of a fairly well to do family....

She was second generation American with her maternal Grandparents coming over from Poland....

Both her Father and her paternal Grandfather worked in Construction and built many of the homes in their home town and later in the town that my parent's eventually moved to....

My Mother always talked about how much my grandfather loved his cars....

Remember that this was in the 1930's.....

I remember my Mother mentioning that he owned a Model T......

 

 
 
 
My Grandmother insisted that my Grandfather teach her how to drive which was unheard of in that time but she would not take NO for an answer!!
 
 
 
One of the main roads in the area, Wyoming Avenue, was nothing but red ash back then.....
 


My Mother remembered driving along that road with her mother driving and little children running behind them yelling "Lady Driver, Lady Driver"!!!

 
My Grandmother and my Mother.....

 
Of course my Mother would learn to drive a car at 16 years old....
 
My Mother and Grandfather.....


My Mother always said that she learned to drive on a Studebaker!!


She looks lost in that car!!!


I estimate this was 1935 when she was 16 years old and weighed a little over 90 pounds as she was 99 pounds when she got married!!
 
NO, I took more after her Mother than her!!

The large home in the background was my Grandparent's home that my parents would eventually build their first home next to....


I also found pictures of my Christening!!!!

 
 My Godparents were my Dad's oldest brother ,John, and my Dad's first cousin, Sophie, who went by Zosh ( Polish)
 
 
 
 
 Father Ed performed my Christening as a personal favor to my Dad.....


He had been assistant Pastor at our church but had been transferred to be Pastor at another parish....


Shortly after, he would be transferred back to Saint Mary's where he remained Pastor til his retirement.....

I also received First Holy Communion, Confirmation and was married by Father Ed.....


He would also baptize both of my sons!!!

I hope you enjoyed seeing these pictures of another time.....

I hope to put many of the snapshot photos into acid free cases, removing them from old paper albums.....


I will be starting to take down Winter in the Den and change the china cupboard and the area around it over to Saint Patrick's Day this week.... 


And then I will start to take down Valentine's in the rest of the downstairs and change it over to Easter....
 

On Saturday, my dear Anne Marie came to visit!!

It is always so good to see her and we had a wonderful afternoon catching up....

She was kind enough to gift me a few Easter Goodies....


Love these bunny Picks!!
 
 

 
She gifted me 2 of them!
 
Aren't these gold bunnies just darling????? 


And a Bunny and Carrots Banner!!


I LOVE these Easter dinner plates......


They look great with these Easter egg shaped plates that I bought several years ago at Tuesday Mornings.....



Don't they????


I want to THANK my friend Anne Marie for all these lovely gifts!!!
 
 

But most of all, I enjoyed spending time with my dear friend!!

Remember that I will now be posting only TWICE a week.....

So I hope you will stop by to visit again on FRIDAY!! 
 
 
 Stay safe, healthy and most of all, HAPPY!!

Thanks to those who took the time out of their busy day to spend a little bit of time with me!!

If you do not have a blog, PLEASE  give me some way to reply to your comment, maybe by including your email in your comment.  If I can not find a way to reach you, I will reply on the post where you commented so please check back......


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11 comments:

  1. LindaFebruary 20, 2023 at 1:28 PM

    I love all the vintage photos. I have lots too. Do you research a family tree? I've been doing ours for several years and have many up there at Ancestry. I've also found many old photos from family members that I've discovered. I changed up my mantle from winter to spring today. It's a lovely sunny day with spring teasing us.

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  2. Kim February 21, 2023 at 3:09 PM

    Oh I love the vintage photos!! I have a ton of them from my mom, too and I have yet to go through them all. I also love your wedding picture. I bet you were married around the same time as my sisters...one of them had her bridesmaids in rainbow dresses with very similar styles!! Thanks also for all the lovely comments you left for me today. What a way to brighten the week!! Big hugs to you my friend!!

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  3. Carol BentonFebruary 21, 2023 at 5:13 PM

    I worked on getting family photos into albums for several years. We have lots of those vintage black-and-white pictures of parents and grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. Some of ours even go back to the brownish photos from the 1800s (great-grandparents). It's inspiring to see how your family grew over the years -- I love looking at photos of my parents when they were much younger than I am now. Thank you for sharing this post in the Talent-Sharing Tuesdays Link-Up 53.
    Carol
    www.scribblingboomer.com

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  4. JeanieFebruary 22, 2023 at 6:23 PM

    I really love this post, Debbie. I love seeing vintage photos and I don't care if they are people I know or not! They always take me back to another time, tell stories. These are treasures and you are lucky to have them still. It's fun to see the house, the car and all those wedding pix!

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  5. handmade by amaliaFebruary 23, 2023 at 7:58 AM

    Wow, these photos are fantastic. Love the costumes and cars and the sense of history.
    Amalia
    xo

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  6. GranthamLynnFebruary 23, 2023 at 12:27 PM

    Old pictures are fun. I love gallery walls. I collect Bunnies. I put a couple on my husband's books. He wasn't real impressed! I thought they looked good!

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  7. Dee | GrammysGrid.comFebruary 24, 2023 at 5:19 AM

    Enjoyed seeing your pics! Thanks so much for linking up at the #UnlimitedLinkParty 101. Shared.

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  8. Allyson @ Southern SunflowersFebruary 24, 2023 at 1:45 PM

    Loved viewing all of your vintage photos! I always enjoying seeing really old pictures even if they're not my family. The clothes, poses, etc. are so fascinating to me. Thanks for sharing at the #HomeMattersParty.

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  9. Vintage Style GalFebruary 25, 2023 at 2:56 PM

    Thank you for sharing your family photos with Whimsy Home Wednesday Debbie. I enjoyed looking at all of them, and will be featuring this post next Wednesday. Black and whites are my favorite, and think they should be displayed in our home, telling our family stories. Love this!

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  10. Joanne February 26, 2023 at 11:37 AM

    Oh I love seeing all these old family photos!

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  11. Life as a LEO WifeMarch 1, 2023 at 2:13 PM

    Love seeing your family photos. So beautiful! Thanks for sharing on Crafty Creators!

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