It is May 1945 and the war has just ended. Many things that had not been available during the war, like stockings, were now for sale in Vancouver stores.
These two seventeen year old friends are having a good laugh at themselves as they walk around Vancouver in the stockings, they have just purchased, for the first time.
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Decade Taken
1940's
Year Taken
unknown
Categories
Day, Women
CATHERINE KENNEDY
Discovering this photo a few years caught my attention as it was taken during the period my late mother, Catherine Argyle, attended first Crofton House, then UBC [BA ’48]. When this photo was later captured on Foncie’s Corner documentary video online, narrated by CBC Shelagh Rogers, I was overwhelmed, recalling the same photo I had saved in my photo archives years earlier. The young lady on the right looks very much like my mother, Catherine, and I recognize the distinctive lapel on her coat lapel. I have another Foncie photo of Mom and her UBC beau in our family records, but not this one. Whoever submitted this original photo could perhaps shed light on who these young ladies are! However, in 1945, my mother would be age 19, turning 20 that August. Would love to solve this mystery!