Today would have been my mother's 100th birthday. She was 90 when she died in 2012.
The photo above from 1928 (another treasure from the archive) shows my mother dressed for Fasching, the Bavarian version of Mardi Gras held Tuesday, Feb. 21, 1928. She would have witnessed the Schäfflertanz, or Cooper's Dance, performed in Marienplatz, Munich, which is the subject of the second photo below and the video I found on YouTube.
This video from Reuters news service shows the Schäfflertanz as it was performed in 1928.
The coopers dance every seven years. It allegedly had its beginnings in 1517, when the plague wiped out a good portion of Munich. I guess the town needed some cheering up. The last time the coopers performed the Schäfflertanz was in 2019, so you still have time to mark your calendars for the next event.
Or, you can witness a mechanical recreation every day in the clock tower of city hall on Marienplatz in downtown Munich.
German barrel makers wearing tailcoats, black trousers, white stockings and a bright leather apron dance in front of crowd in Munich in 1928.