Buffalo Gals

These are the right sort of photographs to have at hand on a ninety-degree day like today.

Click to enlarge to QuickView, or do Alt +  , as there are some interesting details here. Gore-Tex is in the future, so these sledders are bundled up, and in the masculine sort of tailoring that was all over the forties. I like the wooden toboggan, old-style figure skates, actual mittens on teenagers, and the babushka-baseball cap combination. 

I like the girl in back who looks like Eleanor of Aquitaine as played by Katherine Hepburn.  I'm pretty sure she isn't, though.

But it's a close call, because these lassies are into glamour for the duration.  When was the last time you saw lipstick on faces at a sledding party?  Hmmm?

These could be St. Luke's Sodality members, who play softball in the summer as "The Nylons," as per the Newsletter. In that case, this could be a local park or one of the Parish camps:  "Sky High" or "Merrie Mount."

Or they could be a bunch of girls from Kensington High, in which case this is a local park.

When Clara - CAMZ - was in parochial grammar school somewhere, she came home one day and whipped off her snow pants - old-style, padded, thick, heavy snow pants - she let on that she had been wearing them all day and was tired of it.  Her mother - CHM - asked why, and learned that to save money they had turned the heat way down and the Sisters had told them all to keep their snowpants on in the classroom.  CHM hit the ceiling as only she could do.  From then on, it was the local public school for her girls, all the way.  That little story came down, to illustrate a little thing that made a twist of fate.

Julie