HAVING A GOOD TIME


Sisters having a good time together.  My husband’s maternal grandmother, Lillian Ross Pringle, is on the left.  The sisters are Florence, Mary, & Margaret but I’m not sure which is which.  I think Mary & Margaret are on the right & Florence is next to Lillian.

A family picnic.  Stretched out on the ground is my husband’s mother, Virginia Brasier, with her mother, Lillian, sitting on the right.


The family having fun on the beach: Lillian Brasier on the right with her three daughters L-R: Virginia, Peggy (the baby), & Phyllis.

Phyllis and Virginia kick up their heels.

A few years later Poppy (Harry Brasier) takes his daughters Phyllis and Virginia, plus either friends or relatives horseback riding in Yosemite.

From the other side of my husband’s family we have ladies obviously enjoying their time together.  His grandmother, Daisy May Elizabeth Young, is right front, and I believe that’s her sister behind her - in the late 1930s?

Heading back to the beach – this time at Capitola (75 miles south of San Francisco) are my Mom & Dad (on the left – Mom with her back to the camera) in 1937 with friends from the office where they both worked.  There were several young people working there - some of them couples like my Mom & Dad - who enjoyed getting together to go places on the weekends. 

Another scene on the beach at Capitola with my Mom on the right this time.

Another outing in 1937 had the group headed on a ferryboat across the bay on their way to Mount Tamalpais (pronounced Tamalpie) for a picnic and hiking.  My Mom is the one standing on the right.  Since they were crossing the bay from San Francisco to Marin County on a ferryboat, this outing must have taken place before the Golden Gate Bridge was completed and open for traffic in May of that year - May 17 to be exact.

More would-be hikers and picnickers on the ferry.

Hikers having a good time at Mount Tamalpais’s “Half-way House”.

My Mom & Dad were married two years later.  I wonder how many of the other couples here wound up together?

:->

La Nightingail

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