March 13, 2010 6:40 PM  (go back to main view)
Oh Mary!
Mary Ann Apodaca June 1961
Played hooky from the shop today (thank you Andy and Rafa!) so I could meet up with my cousins Marilyn Fitzgerald, Daisy Wendkos, Millie Apodaca and Della Gurney--our parents are siblings--to strategize an Apodaca reunion in the coming year. We scanned over 100 photos, and shared as many stories.
This will be the first reunion in nearly two decades: My father, David Apodaca, R.I.P., was the longtime keeper of our genealogy--including collecting and snapping photographs and hosting the annual extended family soiree.

Given my penchant for picture taking and parties, guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree...

On that note, it's this vintage studio shot of my Aunt Mary Ann that I carefully studied as a little girl. Everything about it fascinated me, especially how she got to this moment.
She died when I was 8. But I spent hours with her through this photograph. Love the mad uber-graphic print of her knit dress.
Like most struggling actors with flair and a figure, she worked as a model, too, and Marilyn recently gifted me a July 1957 copy of "The California Girl: The Magazine Styled for California Fashion." Inside, our Aunt Mary Ann strikes a pose in sophisticated, pencil-silhouetted skirts and dresses for the Lebanon of California brand, a company that is history...in the ever evolving fashion industry here, and, as history of a more lasting kind, now my own.
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Blog Comments (4):
Posted by Evelyn Bla... on March 16, 2010 6:23 PM
1957 Mag?! I LIVE to look through 50's mags. I bet she looked like a doll! Thank you for the sneak-peek into your fabulous fam!
Posted by leslie cai... on March 16, 2010 5:10 PM
beauty runs family deep! xo
Posted by Paul Redmo... on March 16, 2010 1:02 PM
Love the story. I like the visuals that are a part of you from childhood. Have a few around my studio. Stay connected.
Posted by Blanca Apo... on March 15, 2010 4:10 AM
Love it, Rosie. xo
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This glowing grouping is inside the Cafe ArtScience in Paris (see posting from March 9).
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now reading

Rose
Her manuscript...
and
Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America by Peter Biskind

Andy

Mantuana: A Novel by the authors of Wu Ming
and
This last month's issues of The New Yorker since we were away.

Blanca Apodaca
The [Un]Observed Radio Magazine
LuxiRare
Philip Wood: Cultural Translations
The Barr Code
Sewing Rebellion
TreeHugger
Dwell Magazine
Design Sponge
MocoLoco
Apartment Therapy
Dwell Magazine
Style.com
The Sartorialist
We Love You So
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