Fred & Lillian E Caselli wedding

absolutely beautiful dress!

Becky Prior Ewen According to their granddaughter, her dress came from "Sax Fifth Avenue in NYC" - where the grooms' sisters worked!

Becky Prior Ewen It appears the groom was 12 years older than the bride, and he was Italian. That could probably have meant a big, formal Italian wedding, especially if it was just after WWII.

Bob Gaines The timeline for this couple was the 1940s...not the good ol' days for many families who lost husbands, fathers, sons, etc. in WWII. Unless you were white and middle class, those days were often a far cry from "good." Women were not protected by law enforcement or the courts from spousal abuse until the 1970s when it was made a serious crime instead of a "family matter." And people died from diseases and conditions that are now treatable and even curable.

I sure wouldn't go back. I was born in 1948, and, at age 4, I was 6 hours from dying until doctors in the hospital could have a new antibiotic flown in from NY that saved me from peritonitis from a burst appendix. A few years earlier in the "good ol' days," and I, like many others, would have died from it.

I like looking back at the past, but most of the past is better off left in the past. Nostalgia filters out the bad stuff, but the bad happened then as it does now.

Communication now allows us to hear more of what is going on, and, yes, there are more shootings and murders, but there are also a great deal more people, AND the weapons used are now more lethal (36% of mass shootings are done with assault-style firearms). But there were mass shootings as far back as 1891. The gun violence culture of the US has been around for a long time.

Human nature doesn't change.

I stand by my statement - the 40's and 50's were a great time to grow up in this nation.

Lovely photo! Thanks for sharing!