96 and counting...

yesterday we celebrated my grandma's 96th birthday. if i'm doing the math correctly it means she was born in 1909. here's a few things that happened in the month and year she was born.

events:
10/08/1909 - Chicago Cubs beat NY Giants 4-2 in a playoff to win NL pennant
10/09/1909 - Ty Cobb steals home in World Series game
famous births:
10/28/1909 - Francis Bacon, Ireland, painter (Study for a Pope)
10/29/1909 - Douglass Montgomery, LA CA, actor (Forbidden, Harmony Lane)
famous deaths:
10/26/1909 - Horiboemi Ito, Prince of Japan, assassinated by a Korean

items from a 1909 sears & roebuck catalog (by john h lienard)

"Sears-Roebuck and Montgomery Ward catalogs were the great cornucopias of material goods for the early 20th century. All the new things that were changing American life danced across their pages. Here's a 1909 Sears-Roebuck catalog. Through it, a huge Chicago warehouse offers to modernize the farms and small towns of the Midwest.
We're astonished by the buying power of the 1909 dollar. A pair of shoes for a dollar and a half -- a dozen work shirts for four-fifty. All kinds of fancy chairs and bedsteads for less than ten dollars. The most expensive item is their best piano -- $138. Violins vary from 2 to 20 dollars. None of their horse-drawn buggies cost as much as the $45 top-of-the-line gramophone. (It played the new disc records. The older Edison cylinder machines were cheaper.) There's no sign of the automobile, nor of anything electric. Radios, light bulbs, and motors all came later. The most expensive high-tech area is photography. You could spend over $100 on the new Reflex Camera. The catalog offers only one typewriter. It costs $22.95.
Whole sections of the catalog offer the amenities that turn a frontier into civilization: musical instruments, ornate lamps, pretty clocks -- small items that lift life beyond minimal needs."

my, how things have changed!

happy birthday granny deweese!