Friday, August 05, 2005

Casa Susanna

Casa Susanna

"Some time ago, while at a New York flea market, inveterate collectors Michel Hurst and Robert Swope discovered a large body of snapshots: album after aged album of well-preserved images, taken roughly between the mid-50s and mid-60s, depicting a group of cross-dressers united around a place called Casa Susanna, a rather large and charmingly banal Victorian-style house in small-town New Jersey. The inhabitants, visitors, guests, and hosts used it as a weekend headquarters for a regular 'girl's life.' Someone-—probably '“Susanna'” or the matriarch-—nailed a wonder board on a tree proclaiming it 'Casa Susanna,' and thus a Queendom was born."

Follow the link to Look Inside for a few of the pictures, like these:

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