{"id":1482,"date":"1937-01-07T01:15:13","date_gmt":"1937-01-07T07:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/?p=1482"},"modified":"2014-01-07T04:21:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T10:21:36","slug":"overdue-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/overdue-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"January 7, 1937 – “It was the most wonderful New Years Eve ever.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

January 7, 1937<\/p>\n

Starting this letter before my husband comes home for dinner, trying to answer your last 4 letters. <\/p>\n

Also I gave up my \u201cbusiness\u201d because it was costing too much. I intend to continue making hats here in our 1 room at the Devonshire Hotel.

\"Room<\/a>

Our 1 Room at the Devonshire<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

I even started working again for C-R where I stopped in to just say \u201chello\u201d and they asked me if I would like to come back to work.<\/p>\n

Of course it is better to earn some money instead of playing cards or something and losing money. All I did for the last 4 weeks is moving and I am glad I will have now regular hours again.

\"C-R\"<\/a>

C-R Millinery Co<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

Ernale\u2019s English gets better with every letter. Keep it up. Leonard is so happy when he can read and understand your letters by himself.

\"Devonshire<\/a>

Devonshire Hotel<\/p><\/div> <\/p>\n

Can you keep the letters I write you for a little longer? I would very much like to have them since they are like a diary, but really have no room for them until we move to a bigger place, which we intend to do soon. <\/p>\n

[Continued after dinner.]<\/p>\n

We finished some duck which we had at Bill Thompson last night. He has a friend who raises fowl on his roof.<\/p>\n

Aunt Henny sent us a big box of grapefruit and oranges and Leonard\u2019s sister sent a shoebox full of nuts.

\"Big<\/a>

Big Bill Thompson<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

Hope you started the new year OK. For me it was the most wonderful NY Eve ever. We left our room at 10:30, I in my beautiful brocade dress from 2 years ago and Leonard in a tuxedo, which was awfully tight on him. <\/p>\n

First we stopped in the bar here in the hotel and had 2 drinks with some friends in the building. Then we went downtown in a hotel where we had dates with various friends. It was terribly crowded. Then we went to the Morrison Hotel, where I had my 1st date with Leonard, but did not stay because they asked for $6.50 each just to sit down. <\/p>\n

We met some friends and the 6 of us went to a very big nightclub where I had not been before. We saw 2 very wonderful floor shows and at 4:00 a.m. we ate breakfast there. At 6:30 a.m. we met our friends again, in our hotel bar. At 8:00 a.m. we went to another place but I had only 1 cup of coffee. <\/p>\n

When we came home we ate some herring and bread and butter and finally went to bed at 10:15 a.m. I felt so good, although I had about 18 drinks in 12 hours, that I would have liked to go skiing. But too warm, no snow, no skis. <\/p>\n

Love, <\/p>\n

Trudel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

January 7, 1937 Starting this letter before my husband comes home for dinner, trying to answer your last 4 letters. Also I gave up my \u201cbusiness\u201d because it was costing too much. I intend to continue making hats here in our 1 room at the Devonshire Hotel. I even started working again for C-R where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,14,5,225],"tags":[71,414,110,78],"class_list":["post-1482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chicago","category-diary","category-immigrant-experience","category-letters-2","tag-apartment","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-weather","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Trudel-headshot.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1yA95-nU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}