{"id":3449,"date":"2011-08-10T14:47:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T14:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/digitalservices\/?p=144"},"modified":"2011-08-10T14:47:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T14:47:40","slug":"144","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/coolathoole\/2011\/08\/10\/144\/","title":{"rendered":"Dating in the 20&#8217;s and 30&#8217;s:  much like today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wonder what dating was like in the late 20&#8217;s and early 30&#8217;s?<\/p>\n<p>Read about it in the <a title=\"Guide to the Haydn Neal Thompson Letters\" href=\"http:\/\/purl.lib.ua.edu\/34140\" target=\"_blank\">Haydn Neal Thompson Letters<\/a>, now online.\u00a0 Hayden was away at military school, and later, college, during 1924-1935.\u00a0 This is a compilation of letters from his extended family members and girl friends during this period, socializing through correspondence and discussing entertainments and dating.<\/p>\n<p>Some things never change.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a short excerpt from a <a title=\"Letter from Ann Griffith, Lakeland Florida, to Haydn Thompson, Durham, NC, October 22, 1934\" href=\"http:\/\/purl.lib.ua.edu\/34081\" target=\"_blank\">letter<\/a> written in 1934 by one of Haydn&#8217;s girl friends:\u00a0 &#8220;I&#8217;d be very happy if I could believe you&#8217;re really working hard.\u00a0 I&#8217;d know then you&#8217;d have very little time to play around.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/libcontent1.lib.ua.edu\/content\/u0003\/0002713\/0000209\/0001\/u0003_0002713_0000209_0001_2048.jpg\" alt=\"Letter from Ann Griffith, 1934\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She apparently was having a bit of fun herself, as later in the same letter she says &#8220;The beach party fell thru &#8212; one of the fellows had a terrible cold but we had a good party Sat. nite.  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