Miss Mary Graybill lived in Hanover, a charming borough and center of shoe-manufacturing in south-central Pennsylvania.
(Today, the shoe industry is gone but Hanover is a leading center of snack-food production -potato chips and pretzels.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanover,_Pennsylvania
In July of 1910, Mary received a postcard from her friend, Lottie.
Lottie mailed the postcard from York, the historic city and county seat of York County – about 19 miles northeast of Hanover.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York,_Pennsylvania
The face of the postcard is a hand-colored photograph of the “Moving Pictures” building at Highland Park.
Highland Park, now vanished, was created along the Codorus Creek, adjacent to the city of York.
Soon after electric trolley service was established in York, the trolley company (which later became, “York Railways Company”) developed a “trolley park” in West Manchester Township (1891).
Highland Park boasted a Figure Eight roller coaster until 1917, and a carousel and Ferris Wheel until the 1920’s.
This website devoted to Amusement parks has further information about Highland Park:
The postcard was published by “P. W. S. of York”; the image was printed in Germany.
On the reverse, Lottie apologizes for her tardy response to Mary’s postal – “I guess you thought I am not nice not answering your postal right away”.
Lottie explains, “I am busy just now”.
We don’t know anything about the circumstances of Lottie’s life, but we can imagine many scenarios in which a woman might be overwhelmed with work.
It seems that Mary was pleased by the postcard as it was preserved in good condition throughout her life.
One hopes that Lottie was forgiven for her tardy response and that the friends remained correspondents for many years.
