March 18, 2012

Swimwear

The warm weather leads me to think about trips to the beach.  Remember "svimvear" fashions?


Palanga, Lithuania, about 1933. My Dad's side of the family stretches out on the dunes. At the top, on the far left, is my paternal Grandfather, Vytautas, cradling his head in his palm. His wife, my paternal Grandmother Tatjana, is below him, leaning on her elbow. My Dad is at the very bottom of the tier, on the far right, wearing the swim trunks with the stay-up-halter strap. Behind him, wearing the worn swimsuit, is Vytautas's sister, Victoria. In the front, my Dad's twin sister, Jonė, craddles a cousin, Victoria's youngest daughter.

The young woman and teen boy reclining between Tatjana and Victoria are Victoria's other two, older children.

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