Happy Anniversary, Mom and Dad. 
Mom and Dad got married 65 years ago today at Old St. Mary's Church in San Francisco. They had their reception at the Mark Hopkins Hotel and spent their honeymoon night at the Fairmont.

Mom's dress cost $125.00 and the veil was $55.00.

I received this picture of Mom and Dad's headstone from the engraver today. Mom's name was added alongside Dad's. "One in mind, body, and soul." 
"You alone, you always."
They are together forever.

On Saturday afternoon, the day before Mom fell, I went over to visit her and watched the beginning of the Warrior's game with her. Then I came home and Phil and I decided to go see the movie "Brooklyn". While we were out, we got these last two phone messages from Mom. We loved the movie, and I thought she would, too. I really wanted to tell her about it, but I never had the chance to.

I found a list that mom made of her early jobs. I'm not sure if you can see the details in the pictures below. Sears Roebuck was her first job. She was paid $16.00 a week there. The first five jobs were in Chicago. Then she moved to Brooklyn following her family. She worked at Cairns Corporation there during the war. I think that was the job where she said the accounting office in which she worked was glass enclosed and located in the middle of the factory. She said it was great because when the factory workers got a raise, they got one too since they were on the same floor. They also got a raise with the office staff-  double dipping. I have included the front and back of the card she got thanking her for being a part of the war effort. The next picture is a view from the roof of their apartment in Brooklyn. It must be the Manhattan skyline, but I don't recognize it as such. The last one I find very interesting and funny. Read the info below.I

It seems like a joke and according to one website I looked at, it started out that way, but a lot of people joined and it seems like they took it to heart.

Here's what I found on the web about it:

The 1940s Society That Defended Brooklyn, 

Prevented "Disparaging Remarks" About

Borough 

BY JEN CARLSON IN ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT ON AUG 23, 2012 3:00 PM

Back in 2007, WNYC noted that in 1942, "radio stations, newspapers and magazines maligned the borough of Brooklyn no less than 2,623 times," a decrease from the prior year when that number was 6,457. Did these certificates have anything to do with the drop?

In 1941, Brooklynite Sidney Ascher founded "The Society for the Prevention of Disparaging Remarks About Brooklyn." There were said to be around one million members, including Borough President John Cashmore, Betty Smith (the author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn), and even President Harry Truman.

Ascher would watchdog the media, and make note of each time a cruel word was spoken of the borough. He also managed to accomplish many other things while defending the borough, including penning Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1945 "Fala" speech, and when he was a teenager, developing the "Miss Rheingold" beer competition that won awards in national advertising circles.

It's so interesting to go through Mom's things and think about all of the experiences that she had in her life. I found the card that she received when she went to comptometer school. When she graduated from high school at the age of 16, she didn't have the money to go to college and become a nurse as she would have liked. It was during the Depression. Comptometer school offered her the quickest course that would prepare her for a job. She was a whiz on that comptometer! Don't you remember Monica, Eileen and Bob how she would bring work home and go so fast on that comptometer? We loved to play around on the machine and she would pay us to double check her work.

I love this photo of Mom that Bob and Joanie took. She looks so pretty.