Vintage Birthday Parties

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Since Sunday is my birthday - and by the way I will be John McCain's age then (who said he was old???) I decided to post a couple of vintage pictures of past birthdays.

This is my 5th birthday. You can get a clue by the number of candles on the cake. This year there would be 72 candles. Probably enough to burn the place down.

This actually is my cousin Jerry's birthday party. I'm the only girl in the picture. I thought it was a funny picture so I included it in this post. Jerry is the one to my left. No he's on my right. I forgot everything is backwards in photos. Maybe I should say he's the bigger one by me. He had on a sailor cap. I remember he always wore a sailor cap about that time. For some who have been reading my blog for awhile, he was my dancing partner in the tap dancing pictures.

This was my 11th birthday party. I'm the one in the middle in the dark dress. The girl with the blond hair holding her skirt out in the front row was a neighbor girl named Shirley that I played with more than anyone else although she was two years younger than I. She lived in the house right behind us and in those days we didn't have fences.  I remember that she always bragged that she was named after Shirley Temple. 

This isn't a vintage picture, but it is a vintage person. This is my birthday last year - picture taken at my daughter's house. Thank you for letting me share these birthdays with you.