THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1929 | HI: 35° LOW: 25°

We were to begin our Gym Class tonight, but only about 6 girls showed up. – I had to go to rehearsals anyway so I wasn’t so terribly disappointed. The whole crowd wasn’t to rehearsal, but we had lot of fun anyway. Mattie  & I are putting action in our parts & its really good.

By the way, click on the image above to see the full image, it’s worth it 🙂 Heels and wooden-slat treadmill, what could go wrong?

We tend to think that we’re more into fitness today than back in the ’20s or ’30s, but we’re also a very fat and sedentary world today, and people were much slimmer back then. So maybe we know more, but we’re not doing more (and are actually doing less). I found a really great collection of photos of people working out in gyms, a lot of them of women, in the ’20s and ’30s (thank you DailyMail.com), and see that according to the author, only the more well-to-do had the money and/or time to go to gyms. Sounds about right, I wonder if Ethel is taking a class at a local school, or attending a gym with membership fees?

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Image Credits: Reddit