Suggestive comic postcards were common in the early years of the 20th century.
Enterprising printers could order blank templates and add the name of the local town, such as “Smoketown”.
This postcard was not mailed, so there are no clues to the buyer or collector.
Was Smoketown a notorious “make-out” area, or did it feature a “lover’s lane”?
On Christmas Day of 1909, Mrs. Westfall was celebrating her 91st birthday. Mrs. Westfall lived in Weldon, a small city on a railroad line in
Mrs. Mary Lehenbauer lived on a rural route outside Hannibal, the Mississippi River town made famous by Mark Twain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal,_Missouri In November of 1910, Mrs.
Mr. Charles Orman lived in Lexington, the “Horse Capital of the World” in the Bluegrass region of central Kentucky. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexington,_Kentucky In May of 1923, Charles
Haddonfield is a picturesque and historic borough of Camden County in southwest New Jersey. The first European settler in the area was Francis Collins, an
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