On Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend in 1946, Daisy Schwartz (1919-1981) and Harold Burk (1909-1978) were wed at the Hotel McAlpin in New York City. Above, a photo from their wedding album, showing them reading congratulatory telegrams (the text messages of the time).
The Hotel McAlpin was a gigantic hotel, built in 1912 and boasting a Turkish bath, an in-house orchestra, plunge pool, and even a women's only floor.
Mom got dressed in her gold lame wedding gown and matching gold shoes in her room upstairs (I can see from the photos). After the ceremony, she returned to her room to pick up her suitcase and put on her Persian Lamb winter coat for the train trip to honeymoon in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Happy anniversary to Mom and Dad, much loved, much missed, never forgotten.
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