Showing posts with label clothing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label clothing. Show all posts

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Zdrojewski Identification Contest

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JPZ and who?  Where?
JFZ figures that the lady is Julia Mostkowska Zdrojewski.  See John's comment, below.



Would someone please write a caption for this?  Who's that by the mirror; he looks like Casey! but as JFZ points out, this grouping is all Kaminskis.    Cecelia is on the right with  son Paul and daughter Celine.  I bet the beautiful lady with a glass in one hand and Celine in the other is Celine's grandmother; Cecelia's mother.  Who are the others? The youth behind Cecelia looks like my son Andrew; the whole thing freaks me out. I like those wall sconces.  I like the party atmosphere.

Anthony Zdrojewski was the third son of Ludwig and Victoria.  These are his wife, Anna ("Auntie Anna") and one of their daughters, Mariane.

Tony and Anna had two daughters - who was the other one? - and a son Ray.

The dining room at 175 May Street.  Ludwig, Victoria, Uncle Frank smiling!,Celine, John Peter, Casey, Eleanor with Electronics Johnny, little boy Paul, Cecelia, Aunt Julia??.  Next, the lady in the darker dress, seated at the corner, and : gent seated at the front end of the table: Eleanor's parents, Joseph and Louise Kotwas.  See JFZ's Comment, below.
  I remember so many details of that house, such as the gigantic padded rocker in the kitchen.  Check out the terrific telephone.  John, did you tell me once that your Dad phoned you at college every Friday night at 8pm?  Or am I making that up?

Identify these people and win a prize!  Fur coats and shoes.  The shoes are coming back in style, aren't they; but the fur has to be fake in the US in order to be correct.

Monday, January 2, 2012

Mystery Photo with Relatives and also Lingerie

If you click on the link  Familiae personae Zdrojewski - see it up there at the top of the page, under the masthead? - you will find yourself at the second page of this blog:  a list of Zdrojewski family relationships.

I would like to make it look better, but I can't figure out how to make a computer draw a vertical line.

Nevertheless, you can tell from it that Ludwig and Victoria Zdrojewski had six sons.  Presumeably two of them are in this photo.  Who is sitting next to Ludwig?

And who is the youngster, mischief in his eye, reclining for the moment in front of his elders, in 1938?  Are those stockings what they called "cotton lisle"?  Did they come all the way up into shoulder straps?  Did that style of boy undies have a weird name?  Did all boys hate those undies with vicious hatred inexpressible?
I need to know.

"My Mama done told me
When I was in knee pants
My Mama done told me,
Son . . . "



Ahem.  Anyway, next to Grandma Victoria is a lady with silk stockings and lace collar and trim.  Who is she?