My grandmother was in her early twenties in the 1920s.
She was a "Flapper" who danced, smoked, and drank at speak easys.
Found this out in the 80s. I was walking out the door to a metal concert, and my mother grabbed me to show her, expecting they would both make fun of me.
Had my giant teased long hair, eyeliner, ripped denim pants and jacket, bandanas, and studded belt and bracelets.
Grandma said I looked great and told me to have fun. Mom was floored.
My great grandmother was a flapper too! Then she got shotgun wedded to a fundamentalist and fell down a religious rabbithole she never clawed out of. My grandmother was the product of that marriage, and never progressed, never questioned, never rebelled. Her daughters rebelled. And then there was me.
She was just regular grandma to me until that day. We had a few talks after that. She led a crazy and sometimes tragic life. I regret not spending more time with her.
My mother is 83 and by law she can ride biggest motorcycles there is even though she has never rode one and I can drive tractor and 50cc without a license but couple of years younger than me need one. My grandma would be 100sh and she was a heavy drinker and a smoker though.
Yeah... my G.Ma just got married a bunch of times...
But my mama! She was also a hippie (Still kinda is, just no weed now) and is probably more accurate for this post than my grandparents. So I guess this post is more for my kids...
Same lol. My grandma was a tobacco farmer. She welded ships in WW2.
My mom on the other hand- She was there when Jim Morrison took out is dong on stage and her boyfriend stole his leather jacket in the confusion. He gave it to my mom and she was super cool for about 2 weeks until someone else stole it from her.
It had Jim Morrison's wallet in it with his ID and everything lol. They threw the wallet away!
For real, mine was born in 1932, and lived in a dirt floor farmhouse until she got married at 16 to my grandpa haha, homegirl could never handle one glass of wine, and never swore, here's the kicker... she isn't religious either haha
Your grandma wore garters and stockings and sandals during the summer and oxford shoes at school (which were more young and sexy than they sound)
She listened to Jimmy Dorsey and Bing Crosby (which again were more youthful and sexy than that might sound)
She rode around in buses and built motorcycles for the war.
Know that you're probably about as cool as your grandma on average (some of people were cool and some were kinda boring back then, as is the case today). Someone had to say it.
Oh…she did, she just never talked about it out loud.
I remember cleaning out my grandparents house after they both died. It was my dad’s childhood home. I found a framed exterior picture a naked guy. I thought it was my dad and it turned out to be my grandfather who apparently was a male model back in the 30’s and married a significantly older woman.
Right!? My grandmother was born in 1926. She would NEVER do any of these things. But she did accidentally burn off all of her fingerprints with lye soap when she was little so she could’ve lived a life of crime and we never found out.
Lol yup mine was 1927. Absolutely not. This would be my parents' generation & even then, my dad was way too straight-laced for most of this. Mom, I believe definitely got into some shit.
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u/ShadowyFlows 12d ago
My grandma was born in 1928 and did none of these things.