The Roaring Twenties

 

The fancy engraved invitation was hand delivered to our boys...

 

Come as a flapper or just as you are

Dress as a gangster or silent screen star

It's going to be fun no matter the dress

Just bring yourself and we'll do the rest

 

The Junior-Senior Banquet is hosted each year by the junior class for the

senior class and their parents.  There is always a theme and it is always a lot of fun.

This year the theme was The Roaring '20's.

Here is our personal take on that era:

 

 

 

 

 

It involved some thrift store shopping, extreme clothing modification, and

branching out into new areas of sewing.

I was particularly pleased that my first (and probably last) foray into spat making

turned out to be rather painless.

 

Then we were off to the historic Carnegie Arts Center for our dinner and entertainment.

We were served by flappers and dapper young men

and surrounded by finely dressed parents and their equally dashing offspring.

 

 

The evening passed quickly with dinner, conversation, the obligatory baby

and childhood photo slide show, and declarations of love and thanks from the

seniors to their parents.  Time flew by too fast for everyone.

 

It was a fun "date night" with our boys.

{I think this is the only picture that shows Nathan smiling!}

 

 

 

 

Your town may also have a Carnegie building as do many of the towns through

the central valley of California.  Many of these have been remade into museums

or art centers but some still serve as the town's library.

This is the one where we had dinner.

It's been remodeled and added on to but the original section has

beautiful woodwork in a classy setting.

 

 

 

The historic Carnegie Library opened in 1916, one of more than 1,600 libraries built by Andrew Carnegie across the U.S. It served as Turlock’s library until 1968 and has been used as an arts center since 1979. In November 2005 a fire destroyed everything but its exterior walls. The City of Turlock and the Carnegie Arts Center Foundation soon entered into a partnership to rebuild and expand the facility. Opening in September 2011, it is now operated entirely by the Foundation, a private, nonprofit corporation. The scorched walls of the original building can be seen from the lobby of the new addition, where they stand as a symbol of community resolve.

 

http://www.carnegieartsturlock.org/#!history-of-the-carnegie/c1r0z