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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

{Do YOU all know Our Nations Oldest City - St. Augustine, Florida?}



Have you ever read about St. Augustine, Florida? 
That is our nation's oldest city!
On September 8, 1565 Menéndez set foot ashore of Florida...
Since then, Pieter and I have visited St. Augustine numerous times!
Just want to show you here some precious photos from Old Tyme Photo, taken in October a decade ago.
On the left: Toon (Anthony) Vedder, myself and Pieter Vedder my husband.  The photographer made us look the part and no glasses were allowed.


It was so hilarious the way they fit you into these costumes. The men were wearing their shorts and sandals but these pants had NO backs; they're just half pieces that are strapped around the waist. 
I laughed my head off, as it was no sight from behind!
The owner did not let me take this humor in with my video camera...
But it is forever etched onto my retina.
The hats were for real though.



My skirt was another genius garment. It was just a wide piece of never-ending cloth with a waistband at the top; no seems! 
It would fit from a size 4 (34) to size 24 (64) and close with some velcro.
Toon Vedder invented that we all were the wealthy owners of the Magnolia Plantation.
I can tell you that looks can be very deceiving...
These photos are treasures now, as Toon did go to heaven in September of 2006

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4 comments:

  1. Johanna GehrleinOctober 5, 2010 at 2:44 PM

    Liebe Mariette,

    Ihr drei seht einfach toll aus. Ich hätte euch sofort geglaubt, dass ihr die reichen besitzer der Magnolia Plantage seid. Solche Kleider waren doch wunderschön, oder? Schade, dass man heute sowas nicht mehr trägt. Obwohl ich mir meinen Tagesablauf in so einer Robe gar nicht vorstellen kann. Und die ganze Wäsche und Bügelei hinterher. Allerdings hätte ich gerne auch ein Rückenteil dazu gehabt. Für euer Fotoshooting war das ja so genug. Ich kann mir euren Spaß richtig gut vorstellen.
    Schöne Grüße, Johanna

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  2. Rose M. RodriguezOctober 5, 2010 at 7:52 PM

    Hi Mariette, you look so pretty in that picture, you look like a lady of that time! and equally stylish gentleman! and once the fascination of old photographs, thanks to human ingenuity invented these clothing adjustments, and so pretend that they are well dressed. marie rose greetings

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  3. Warren BaldwinOctober 5, 2010 at 9:32 PM

    Linked from Social Workers blog. Neat pictures! And it seems some of the humor is showing up in the 2nd picture :). Nice blog. If you follow back to mine I have a couple, but Family Fountain is the main one.

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  4. maría ceciliaOctober 11, 2010 at 8:02 PM

    you all look so cute!!

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Mariette...