This past weekend I had a fun vintage weekend so thought I would share it with you. First up on Saturday I was part of an event in Toronto called “Rosie O-Rama in conjunction with 2 events. V-J day (Japanese surrender that marked the end of World War II) and the Guinness Book of World Records “Most Rosie the Riveters in one spot” that was happening in California that day.
Since I don’t live in California a few of us got together (including fellow blogger Irene from Petite Plus Meow) and dressed up as Rosie (or for us Canadians ‘Ronnie the Bren Gun Girl‘) and met at City Hall in Toronto by the fancy new 3D sign for photos.
We then got out of the hot hot sun and zipped over via public transit to our fav “Rosie the Rebel” reproduction clothing store for some shopping and then ended our adventures at the super cool vintage Malt Shop- ‘Bean and Baker‘ for yummy goodies.
Ice cream time at Bean and Baker!
mmmm handcrafted cherry coke and an Astro Pop!
It was a great day with these 4 ladies of the Toronto Vintage Society.
SUNDAY
On Sunday my hubby was working so I decided that I was going to jump on the streetcar and head to one of my fav vintage stores in Toronto-Gadabout on Queen St. East.
Gadabout is one of these stores where you need to clear your calendar and even go alone so that you can spend hours filtering thru all the wonderful goodies they have. The owner Victoria is so nice and so is all her hardworking staff. I feel so welcomed every time I go.
For today’s trip I was on the hunt for vintage photos (I love my vintage photos) AND possibly a new Tiki dress for the TVS Tiki Party August 29th. I spent a couple of hours and brought home the following:
Find #1: This great souvenir photo taken at the Historic King Edward Hotel in Toronto in the 1940s.
It looks like these lovely young people are on a double date at one of the fanciest hotels in town. I wonder if they went dancing after in one of the gorgeous ballrooms at the hotel? Don’t they look like they are having so much fun? The gentlemen on the left is in mid laugh 🙂
Find # 2: Beautiful photo from the 1930s of a very well dressed mother and her adorable son.
Style alert! The mothers dress is simply beautiful and her shoes…wow!!! I love the hat as well. Very very nice.
Find # 3: This image instantly caught my eye when I saw the wonderful head scarfs and the cool Hawaiian shirt the man on the right is wearing. Then I started to look at it more and realized that I believe these lovely people are at a seaside resort somewhere. Wonderful!
Find # 4: I love her dress, that is why I took this image home with me.And I giggle when I see that someone’s finger got in the photo 🙂
Find # 5: I believe this picture is of a mother with her very handsome son and gorgeous well dressed daughter (isn’t her dress just divine and her hair is perfect). I’m enjoying that the mother does not seem happy to be taking the photo but the kids have nice smiles on their faces and don’t seem to mind at all.
Find # 6: I remember when I went to summer camp and at the end of the week we would get a photo of the whole camp and then we would spend the day running around getting everyone to sign the back of it. When I found this image of a group of young ladies in the 1940s, possibly at summer camp and the back was signed I just knew this was a keeper.
The back has cute “nicknames” that the girls had given each other. Like “Tiny” Jones and “Cookie”.
Find # 7: Here comes the bride all dressed in..not white but who cares! She looks wonderful (want her dress!) and her husband..so handsome. He reminds me a bit of Don Draper of Mad Men fame.
Image # 8: Here is another happy couple from the 1930s. Her husband/boyfriend/”friend” looks so in love with her, I just adore how he is looking at her in this picture. And once again, the lovely lady wins in the style department. Look how dainty her gloves are? Swoon…
Find # 9: FLAMINGOS!! I love flamingos and when I saw this wonderful menu from a still in business restaurant in Toronto, I just had to have it. I belive it’s from around the 1950s from the prices you see in the next image.
Inside of the menu. I love the section on “Milk drinks”. Milk Shakes, Malted Milk, Egg Nogg, Egg Malted. That’s a lot of Milk 🙂 And don’t forget the “Hot Ovaltine”.
Last but not least I also bought myself a vintage dress for the Tiki party I mentioned above. Here is the fabric but you won’t see the dress until Tiki party time (it’s a surprise).
Did you have a good weekend? Find any vintage goodies yourself?
Liz 🙂
My weekend wasn’t much to speak of – I much prefer your weekend! Love all the lovely Rosie outfits you ladies put together and the whole day’s agenda sounds like a blast. As does the shopping jaunt.
Those are some great photos! It always seems a bit sad to me that someone’s photos have ended up in a shop rather than with family, but at least they find good homes with people like you who will care for them. 🙂
I so agree with you regarding the photos, that is why I’m glad I can take them home and share them with the world so that they breathe new life (even if we don’t know who they are).
That is all kinds of awesome! I really, really adore that you lovely ladies paid homage to our incredibly hardworking WW2 foremothers (and fathers). Thank you!
Big hugs,
♥ Jessica
*PS* Oh my gosh, I didn’t know they still made Astro Pops! I loved those when I was a kid!
Astro Pops are the BEST! I enjoyed every moment of the candy hehehe.
What was fun about the day dressed up, was the amount of people who stopped us to talk and ask questions. It was great to be able to share the story of “Rosie’s” and “Veronica’s” to people who did not know.
I love all the photos here and really enjoyed this trip down memory lane. Thank you so much for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂 I love collecting old photos and sharing, makes the finds a bit more fun 🙂
Liz
Lovely to see all those Rosie’s! You all had great outfits. Nice to see the photo with some of the original Rosie’s too! You did very well indeed on the vintage photo front. I enjoyed looking at them all but that mother in the 1930’s dress and the signed group photo were my favourites. I scored a brooch and a number of 1950’s needlework magazines the other day do was very pleased!
Yay awesome vintage finds! 1930s mother in that dress is one of the favs as well for me. Her shoes…ohhhh soooooo good 🙂
It would of been cool to have been at that Rosie event but I’m glad that people documented it, so that I could enjoy it from afar.
Liz
Older people in those days tended to wear dour, “Where’s the beef?” expressions. There’s a picture of my great grandmother. When my husband saw it he said, “Whose dog just died??”
It is so true! They did tend to wear dour expressions. I wonder why though? I’m sure they were happy at least some of the time lol 🙂
Liz
Wow, seems like Toronto is the place to be for fun vintage events. Love the fabric of your new dress.
Toronto is a great city! we have lots going on all the time.