Marleewood In The Roaring 1920's

Grandma B was tired of cleaning and helping Marlee pick up things that had been left by folks that had come to the party. Marlee had found an old picture of a little girl and a chicken. Grandma B just shook her head and told Marlee to put it in the Lost and Found Closet. She wanted to go home and relax. Marlee didn't do as she asked right away, so she once again reminded Marlee to "get going" and get ready to go back to the Mini Farm.
Marlee had heard her Grandma B, but wasn't moving very fast. She just kept staring at that old picture. Something seemed to fascinate her about it. She had seen chickens before at Mrs. Liz's house when they were snowed in. So it wasn't the chicken that had her hang on to that picture so very tightly.
Grandma B startled Marlee and said, "You run along now and put that old picture in that closet I showed you. I am going to get your black hoodie for you. You left it in the kitchen. You and I both need a nap. You are so tired you can't hardly wiggle." Marlee grinned at that. Grandma B sounded just like Grandma Lu. She said that too.

Marlee did as she was told. She took off the soft blanket that she had been wearing around her shoulders and took the picture and opened the door to the Lost and Found closet. "Oh, it's pretty neat in here, she thought. It's a lot bigger than a regular closet." She put the picture on the table with the other things they were saving for people. It was pretty dark in there, but she could see another picture. This picture was hanging on the wall. Marlee put her hand up to touch it because those people looked familiar and the wall moved. "Whoa, what was that? I must be really tired. I just thought I felt that wall move." Marlee again reached up and touched the picture and suddenly felt herself being catapulted into a land that she had never seen or heard of before. It was the land of Marleewood in The Roaring Twenties!

That was a time of fun and gay times of singing and dancing. The people that lived there had a movie theater and places to eat and shop. The men had lumberyards where they could buy wood to build houses and barns. Marleeland had a lot of churches. There was a design house where ladies could look through catalogs to see pictures of the newest fabrics and furniture for their homes. There were grocery stores and ice cream shops. There was a barber shop where sometimes if ladies were really brave would get their hair cut in a "bob". It was a really short hair cut.
There was a lady called Popcorn Mary that sold popcorn and hot dogs to people that were going to watch a movie. They had a railroad called the Kansas City Clinton Springfield Railway that came through town also. Soon there would be a hospital also. It would be built in 1929.

 The older ladies that were rich and stylish who lived in the newly built Marleewood wore long dresses, but the young women that lived closer to town wore short dresses. They wore hats that were big and floppy almost covering their faces or if they wanted to, they wore feathers in their hair. It was the new dress style in those days.You could hear loud music coming out of the windows and doors of the ballrooms at night in the downtown area.
Oh, Marlee was going to learn all about Marleewood and her small hometown long before she was born.
What a fun adventure for Marlee. I wonder where she will be in tomorrow's story.