Today's "Anything Goes Saturday" features girls! Or in the case of this first photo, maybe "young women" would be more apt. This photo is undated, though I would guess that it is from the 1940's (it was in an unusual green cardboard mount). Could this be all of the girls in a small school's graduating class? Debutantes? The Homecoming/Prom Queen and her court (five of them are wearing enormous corsages)? Whatever the case, they are all dressed in their finest gowns (I'll bet a number of those were made by thrifty and talented mothers) under a proscenium. I hoped that the yellow and white flag barely visible to our right would at least tell give me a clue about the state that this school was in, but it doesn't resemble any flag that I recognize. It's frustrating to not know more about it.
From a different bunch of slides comes this picture from a school dance (junior high?) from the 1950's. A few boys have headed to the top of the bleachers in the hopes that nobody will notice them, which dozens of girls gather like a colorful bouquet. Did they all stay right there the whole night? Did any brave boys ask any of the girls to join them on the dance floor? You will just have to make up your own stories.
Could be the Vatican flag, possibly a Catholic Church basement, maybe a Sunday School graduation?
ReplyDeleteConcur with D-ticket's assessment of the flag.
ReplyDeleteSee a full picture at the CIA World factbook, ttps://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/flags/flagtemplate_vt.html
Let's try that URL again...
ReplyDeletehttps://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/flags/flagtemplate_vt.html
What I wouldn't give for an "edit" button...
The thing that ‘s got me going is the boy in the second picture, sitting in the top row along with his fellow “wall flowers”, wearing the salmon & black two-tone shirt. What – No white shirt-? No tie-? No sport coat-? Are his parents raising a juvenile delinquent-??!! Or perhaps, he’s merely the school’s trendsetter, who spends far too much time in the Boys’ Vice Principal’s office.
ReplyDeleteI’ll bet he sets many a girls hearts all a-flutter being the “bad boy” in school. He may have cleaned up nicely here, but just wait until later, when he unrolls his shirtsleeve and ‘lights up’ a cigarette. Horrors-!
I can amost hear Maurice Chevalier - Thank Heaven For Little Girls crooning in the background.
ReplyDeleteGreat vintage shots.
D-ticket, I would have NEVER thought of the Vatican flag!
ReplyDeleteChuck, it definitely looks like it could be the same flag.
Nanook, that's the fun of these pictures, imagining what was going on with the various people!
Alonzo, I prefer Maurice Chevalier in "Monkeys Go Home!"
Very cool. I notice in the second picture there seems to be several rows of different aged girls, and even the chaperons there near the center.
ReplyDeleteI wish I had pics of myself from the day like these other than those in the yearbook, which of course are not pics I could share,but grateful to have them all the same.
A cool post today :-) Happy Saturday, everyone!
There must have been a sale on powder-blue taffeta.
ReplyDeletethe girl walking from right side of pic to left seems to have the attention of at least 3 boys..
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