Mr. Lanham Revisited: Feb. 19, 1926
It's Julia Anne's fifth birthday!
Julia Anne turned five today and opened her gifts at breakfast. Her parents gave her a pair of roller skates, evidently her first. She put them on and wore them nearly all day, “walking about on the rugs with both skates on, without any help,” her proud papa wrote. The skates were most likely the type you wore with your own shoes, as shown in this 1920s…
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