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“The Pious Pelican” – Miami, Florida (1939)
In the winter of 1939, Paul and Bev were having a “dandy time” in Florida. They sent a postcard to “the folks” up north. Mr.
In the winter of 1939, Paul and Bev were having a “dandy time” in Florida. They sent a postcard to “the folks” up north. Mr.
Miss Grace Callison lived in Trenton, a city in northern Missouri. Once the site of an Utopian Socialist commune influenced by the English thinker, John
Tom was devoted to Miss Mayme Pulcher. Almost every day, Tom mailed a postcard to Mayme. (An antique dealer has about a hundred examples of
Miss Mayme Pulcher lived in Grand Rapids, Michigan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Rapids,_Michigan Mayme had a devoted suitor, Tom, who traveled through the upper Midwest for his business. Every
Mr. L. P. Whitaker lived in Chicago. In June of 1908, Mr. Whitaker received a comic postcard from an unidentified correspondent in Detroit, Michigan. The
Mrs. N. D. Wright was living in Detroit, Michigan when she received a postcard from a friend who was traveling through Norfolk, Virginia. I cannot
Hazel Penoyer lived in Palmyra, a village on the Erie Canal, just south of Lake Erie and east of Rochester, NY. An early transportation and
One feature of American life that has changed significantly in the last century is the decline of social,fraternal, and mutual-aid societies.Earlier postcard stories noted the
We met members of the Bashore family in earlier postcard stories.Mrs. S.S. Bashore lived in Union Deposit, a community in southeast Dauphin County of centralPennsylvania.The
Manufacturing a Plymouth – 1936 Carl was buying a new Plymouth; he and Harry were at the plant in Detroit to pick up the brand
Tellings stories from the past.