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Growing up in the 1950?s

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Ours was smaller (about 700 square feet) – 2 bedrooms (my brother and I shared one and my parents the other), a kitchen and a living room, No basement or garage. Kids did chores and not all of them were ‘safe’ My brother mowed the lawn with a homemade electric lawnmower. Food/shopping. Fast food was rare.

Growing 180
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Naomi’s Christmas: Restorative Aloneness And A Childhood Spent In Retail

For the Mommas

A Page From Bloom’s Camera 1950 Catalog. He ran a modest camera shop with his two brothers, Paul (who passed away in early January, 2015, just after his 99th birthday and who has entrusted me with finishing his memoir), and Herman (who also published several “romantic” novels under the name Harmon Bellamy).