Mrs. J. E. McAllister lived in Glendale, a city of Maricopa County of central Arizona.
Once a desert, Glendale was developed by entrepreneurial investors who brought a canal to the territory and built a grand avenue from Phoenix – nine miles to the southeast.
The first settlers in the area were members of the plain River Brethren denomination who were persuaded to form a “temperance colony” in the new town.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glendale,_Arizona
The McAllister family are not strangers – we have been introduced to places visited by several members of the McAllister family.
We have seen original postcard art from two trips across the border to Mexico, grandmother’s postcard from San Francisco, and a son-in-law’s souvenir of a tour of Crater Lake.
In July of 1937, Mrs. McAllister received a postcard from her daughter, Margie.
Margie was making an extended tour across the country, and she mailed a postcard from Belle Plaine, Iowa.
Belle Plaine is a small city in Benton County of central Iowa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_Plaine,_Iowa
The face of the postcard displays a photograph of Ellis Park in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Cedar Rapids, the commercial and transportation hub of eastern Iowa, is located on the Cedar River -about 40 miles east of Belle Plaine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Rapids,_Iowa
The postcard photograph has sufficient clarity to read that Ellis Park had a “Shakespeare Garden”.
These gardens, featuring plants and creatures named in Shakespeare’s plays, were widely popular (both in England and the US) in the 19th century as cities developed parks and other urban oases.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_garden
Ellis Park occupies more than 400 acres on the banks of the Cedar River.
Amid a golf course, ball fields, tennis courts, boat ramps, and other amenities, Ellis Park preserves today the “Shakespeare Garden”
https://www.tourismcedarrapids.com/directory/ellis-park
On the reverse, Margie reports that “we are on our way”; they expect to “make L. A. (?) in four more days with luck”.
Some time after that, they expect to see Mrs. McAllister.
The message is sent with Love and signed, “Margie and Lewis”.
