Hi, Trish!

Guess where I was celebrating July 4th in 1976? In England!! I was still living there then, and I did rather miss the fun activities we always had in NY.

All the tall ships came down the Hudson River, one block from my apartment building, and Alice said it was such a fun celebration in Riverside Park! My Mum came in from near-by Long Island and Alice bought then all--dogs included--1976 tall ship tee-shirts, Statue of Liberty foam crowns and huge white, plastic Statue of Liberty sun glasses!

Everyone was given different colored neon flashing necklaces and the smell of delicious barbecues, Alice said, was driving them nuts!

As Ginger mentioned, sales of personal fireworks were banned, but there had been some bad accidents in the years earlier from unsafe products.

Oh, Trish--to think that there was an auction of Susan's belongings just two weeks earlier in California. I would have been mesmerized just to SEE them....and to OWN one would have been heavenly! What fun!
But at least you have the catalogue----what kind of things were being shown?

I must admit, though, that I would have had rather mixed feelings at watching her belongings being sold. It would have left a very sad feeling of poignancy in me to know this was her 'life' being split apart...... I do hope the buyers were people like you, who loved Susan so much and would have treasured what she owned.

Thanks for your story, Trish! Your daughters must have been so excited to be there in California!!

xx Lynn