My World…..
I used to have much better homepage, designed with the program „FrontPage“ which ubfortunately doesn’t exist anymore.
But maybe I just add the links to some of the pages and maybe you’ll be able to enjoy my entries. This is my first try.
https://old.dorrie.de/reports/1960s/SubicBay.htmhttps://old.dorrie.de/reports/1960s/SubicBay.htm
nope, it didn’t work….darn. But you can, of course, try it manually.
My beautiful pictureMy beautiful pictureOne of my biggest hobbies, besides dancing, was sewing. I’ll try to present a few of my samples here. I hope you enjoy them:
The following blue dress I made for my high school prom in 1968.
I’m wearing it here in the 20’s and it still fit! But one of my care ladies around 2023 took it to the local second hand shop. I hope it found a good new owner!
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The first is my wedding dress that I made in 1970. Also the dresses for my brides maids I made.
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| I also plan to bring my wedding dress to the second hand shop, but my daughter thinks it’s too „old fashion“ and no one would want it. But I’ll try anyway. Also, the brides maids dresses I also sewed.
The following dress I also sewed myself and now, in 2024, I still have it. But we may give it to the second hand shop. |
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The coat pictured above I sewed especially for during my pregnancy. I then loned it out to Petra and never saw it again, but that’s OK.
The following picture with my daughter, Regina, was taken on a Christmas trip to El Cajon. I had made the dress for her for a wedding of one of Michael’s collegues in 1979, the second picture was taken in our garden with some of Regina’s friends.
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Of course I also made many costumes for my dance groups and for fasching (carnival). Here a few examples. The last picture was with my first dance group in the 1970’s when I got my first introduction to Fasching. We performed a can-can dance.
The first picture is my childrens marching group and yes, I made all the uniforms! Mine was a bit different. I gave them all to one of my dance students who happened to have a children’s group.
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Of course I also made costumes for my dance groups or just for myself . Here are a few excamples:
The first two are supposedly examples of Israeli costumes. The designs I got from various magazines and/or books.
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The next is one desighned after a Russian sample and the second one Bulgarian. The Russian one I wore at man demostrations abd still
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Of course I needed proper dresses for square dancing. Here are two that I made in the 1970’s and still have today (2024).
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When my daughter, Regina, married Sven Jagodzinski, I made her two daughts matching dresses. They wore them often, even after the wedding!
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here Tamara was more interested in the museums items. |
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I was born in Annapolis, Maryland, USA. I don’t have any pictures of my first home, but we did at once live in a Quanset house. |
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In 1954 or so, we moved to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where we lived for 2 years.
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We then moved to El Cajon, California, where we bought a house. Before that we lived in Chula Vista and that’s where I started going to school.
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Our house in El Cajon 1956:
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We did lots of work on the house, added a patio and lived in it for many years!! As my parents got older, we added a „Granny“ house in the backyard. My younger brother, Carl, moved into the main house with his wife, Alice, and kids. He still lives there today, 2019.
This was our first home. Not much, but that was standard for the times, a so-called „quanset“ hut!
To start off with, I was born on Feruary 23, 1950 in Annapolis, Maryland, USA. My dad was with the Navy and stationed there and as far as I know, he actually taught at the Navy academy.
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so, even then I liked cats back then!! |
already bekomming a coke addict !! here with my mom |
and here with my dad! |
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and here is my dads mom with me and my older brother, Bob. |
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Then of course Christmas was celebrated