‘...I will kill it’

Pages from a undated vintage notebook. Apparently, young Ray shot crows with a BB gun in his spare time, mapping out the location of his hunts. While researching to see if crows did indeed live on the island of Guam (which is identified on the map), I found this 2011 video about the passing of the last female Marianas crow.

http://www.pacificnewscenter.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15458:video-last-female-marianas-crow-on-guam-dies&catid=45:guam-news&Itemid=156

P.S. I am having a hard time making a clickable link here, so you might have to cut and paste the URL until I figure it out. :(

For the cocktail hour

1952 log book entry from the yacht Hijo:

Betty breaks out a Mae West red jersey, red cap, black skirt & red Ibis casting fly ear rings for the cocktail hour. Wolf whistles from all the men aboard.

Boys and their mascara

Maybe it's Maybelline?

Mukluks for Ruth

Buy Frangos

Another entry from a University of Washington student's 1956 journal.

Wreck Day 1956

Batman on the palace wall

From a young woman's 2004 London travel journal.

Noted

I have witnessed the Minnie

Side note: Ms. Riperton was also the mother of Saturday Night Live's Maya Rudolph. She passed away in 1979 at age 31 from breast cancer.

With seventeen cents in our pocket

Susan and Tom were married on Dec. 22, 1963. Along with the usual mementos, their wedding memory book also includes newspaper clippings from the assassination of President Kennedy just a month earlier.

And isn't it ironic

Is New Wife the same person as Blurry Name? Or, did New Wife discover the journal and take on the passive-aggressive editor role once she saw Blurry Name mentioned?

Never forget April