Let's take a cruise to Bermuda in 1929

[infrogmation]

It's been a while since I posted old family pix. Here's some of my maternal grandparents on their honeymoon cruise to Bermuda in 1929.










Grandmother as a stylish flapper. Looking a tad seasick?



Grandfather and friends at port in Bermuda











Mmmm, beer! No Prohibition in Bermuda.

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Related story: My grandfather bought a house outright for himself and his new bride and paid for the cruise by selling stock in September of 1929. Years later he liked to tell visitors "Did you know I bought this house for fifteen cents?" because that was all the stock was worth after the crash.

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My grandmother would cut off the corners of photos and paste them into scrapbooks. She was still doing this over half a century later. I cropped the photos so it's not evident in some, but they're all like that. I don't know where that aesthetic arose from.

Comments

Hussy!

[asienieizi.livejournal.com]

Showing her arms and legs in a bathing suit in public? How shameful!
Thanks for posting those. I adore old photos such as these. You wouldn't happen to know the name of the ship, would you?

Oh, I've got an email incoming for you too.

[mshollie.livejournal.com]

Awww, what sweet pictures. :)

[jennconspiracy.livejournal.com]

I don't think it is an aesthetic -- I think it has to do with glueing them into the paper corners that would be pasted down into photo albums. Chances are, some of the glue came loose, and she wanted to transfer them to a new album, so just cut off the corners of the photos (because the black or white paper corners wouldn't come off) and pasted them all down. :)

[jennconspiracy.livejournal.com]

Btw, awesome photos!

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

That would be a reasonable explanation, but looking at the originals that doesn't seem to be the case. Some of the stuff seems to be in the same albums its been in for however many decades. *shrug*