Thursday, July 10, 2014

Throw Back Thursday

Despite my love of the past, I've never done a TBT post.  Didn't realize what they were until I saw some of you doing them.

The most important person in my life was my mother, Barbara Jo.  She was born in 1936 and came of age during the Fifties.  She adopted the fashion and styles of that period.  I find them amazing to look at.  Many vintage-loving gals of today relish this era.

Here she is...


 
 

 
 

 
 


 
 

30 comments:

  1. Very pretty, and I love that first picture with the attitude.

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  2. So fun to see photos from that decade! I love the one with the car :)

    -Sharon
    The Tiny Heart
    Spray Tan Giveaway!

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  3. She is stylish and gorgeous, but I wouldn't expect any less of your mother!

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  4. Amazing pictures, your mom was a beautiful lady!! I love the one with the car!

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  5. GORGEOUS photos!!!!! You are just as stylish as she was!!!

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  6. You can really see where your features came from your mom & dad!
    There was something so fashionable and sophisticated about those years. My fav is the one with the car too!
    Thank you for sharing these pictures with us Ally,

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  7. These are fantastic! You look so much like your parents!

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  8. I love the first photo with that pose and that confidence! If I were you I'd enlarge and frame that one and put it where I saw it every day! I can see why she is your inspiration.
    xoxoxo

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  9. Beautiful black and white photos.
    I remember reading about your mom before.
    I like her in that first picture as a child with personality and no fear to pose - and of course she looks dashing in her wedding dress.
    Do you have any of your mother's clothes ?
    The reason I ask is because lately I have been wishing my mom had kept clothes for either me or her grandkids. Because she didn't.

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    1. I have a blue skirt which I sneaked from her closet after she passed away. My father was throwing out her clothes and I couldn't take them openly.

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  10. i remember that first picture...love it. you could already tell then that she was a looker in the making :)

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  11. I love her style, especially her wedding dress!!

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  12. That first picture is truly excellent

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  13. She is beautiful. I love old photographs of family members. I have a box full with pictures of my ancestors going as far back at the 1880s.

    Lisa.

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    1. Please share! Scan the ones you like best and put them on your blog. People (including me) love vintage photos, even of strangers. The photos depict times and places of the past we can enter in our minds.

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  14. What great vintage photos! I loved looking at these.

    bisous
    Suzanne

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  15. Absolutely stunning, really enjoyed this post.

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  16. She was absolutely beautiful! Love that wedding picture...

    -Kati

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  17. Gorgeous photos, I love the pose in the first photo and the outfit in the third one is perfection.

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  18. I see where you get your extraordinary panache! Your mother was soooo beautiful and stylish. Thank you for this TBT.

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  19. All beautiful photos! I can see very much of your parents in you - especially your mum. These photos are a real treat.

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  20. Beautiful post. Your mother was a beauty and these pics are precious. Thanks for sharing with us ! Kisses

    Fashion and Cookies

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  21. my mom is a Barbara Jean! so photogenic!

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  22. What a beautiful peek into the past. I remember seeing that first photo before - it's still my favorite. :)

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  23. That is such a beautiful post! your mother was so stylish and beautiful! thanks for sharing those photos with us, it's so interesting to have a glimpse in life those days

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  24. These photos are powerfully beautiful. They speak not only of an age long gone, yet still so familiar in our collective memory, but of a woman who obviously meant the world to you. She was a vivacious, stylish, charismatic looking lady and I can't help but see elements of her in you, dear Ally.

    ♥ Jessica

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  25. What a beautiful woman your mother was. I love the photos!
    Debbie
    www.fashionfairydust.blogspot.com

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  26. Old photos are the best! You look so much like her! I thought both of your parents were immigrants, but judging from the name "Barbara Jo" it must have only been one of them...

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    1. My mother was a mutt from Brooklyn. A mishmash of ethnicities, none off the boat like my dad.

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