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Snapshots Of The Century

By Sue Wunder

Nov. 08, 1999, 12:11 p.m. ET

Danbury, Conn. - 1936

Photographer: George Gammie

'We were the Three Musketeers of our day,' writes Theo-Jane Ausbury (nee Gammie), who sent us this photograph. She is the girl on the far right. Springtime meant tricycle season to Theo-Jane and her friends Mary Ellen Monroe (left) and Iris Randall (center). The trio paused

long enough to allow Theo-Jane's father to take this picture in front of the house

that the Gammie family shared with

Mrs. Gammie's parents.