Everything In My House

Mary McDonald

Friend of Jessie Thompson

1905

Connecticut

Her dress is gorgeous and her pose is lovely; it's a perfect picture from that era.

3pm

January 1923

Street Cleaner at 42nd St. and 5th Ave.

These vintage buttons

I'd have a panic attack whenever my mother told me we were going to visit these cousins.

Pretty sure Johnny ended up in jail.

April 1970

Last Act of Kindness

He'd had minor out-patient surgery a few days before. Minor surgery that resulted in major post-op pain.

He hobbled around the house, clutching at countertops whenever a flash of stabbing pain shot through him.

He moaned and groaned loudly from the bathroom.

He said he felt like shit. He said he'd never experienced anything like this before. He said he was exhausted.

He took a 2 hour nap.

When he woke up she brought him a mug of tea, made just the way he likes. She even used the "good honey" made from her cousin's beehives.

A short while later he came downstairs, no longer in his pajamas but fully dressed now. He put on his coat.

He said he was going to a neighbor's New Year's Eve party. She hadn't been invited.

But his girlfriend was.

She presumed that at midnight he kissed his future life.

A mile away, alone, she downed a glass of Veuve Clicqout and air-kissed her past goodbye.

Then she threw out all tea in the house and went to bed.

Vintage Expello Tin - Kills Moth Worms.

Unfinished projects?

Or projects waiting to be started?

"A-cute rash"

I don't know, I don't see anything cute about ice-burned ass but, you know, the Fifties ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"Put Up Job"

January 1957

Tabor Manufacturing Co.

My Christmas Wish List

Circa 1975

Legit.

Trit

Connecticut

1923

New York City

December 9, 2018

December 2, 1922

3:30 pm

Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY

E.F. Bazzeghin

My grandfather, exactly 96 years ago today