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I wish this card had actually been mailed. The message would simply
have to clash! But surely plenty of travelers purchased it
and wrote jolly accounts of their shuffleboard games on the back,
sending it off to Aunt Mamie in Cleveland. (In a Stephen Glass
moment, I considered fabricating one….) In the rest of these,
however, the travelers did write a message.
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Blan (is her name
really “Blan”? Who knows?) is taking in the sights of Fort Myers, FL
in February of 1938. She tells her friend Miss Eva R. Jones of
Hartford, CT that she is seeing the sights, though tired every
night. That she is sending her friend this gruesome image, she
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Here’s a somewhat
provocative pin-up girl of 1911, sent to Mr. Fred Bohimil of Kansas
City, MO (the other one), from a mysteriously signed “BRP.” BRP’s
message starts out normally enough (with the requisite thanking Fred
for his “postal”)….but then things take a sinister turn….The
mysterious code that BRP lapses into…could it be that he and Essie
engaged in some sort of sordid activity? And what was it in the
Laundry that scared him? “Isn’t this a crazy postal” indeed! |
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On February 4,
1904, a large area of Baltimore, MD was destroyed by fire. Many were
left homeless and out of work. One person died. On June 7, 1904,
Miss Ida G. Sado visited Baltimore. She wrote to her friend, Mrs. M.
Wright, of Sigourney, IA. Here’s what she had to say. Priorities! |
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To convey the
grim message of her brother’s drowning….
...Miss Betty G. of
Waupaca, WI chooses this jolly card featuring watery doom.
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Hertz and Mabel Skaer are rightfully proud of their Mauston, WI motel, seen here in
1955. Could that be Mabel herself, sitting in front of The
Willows—strangely solo, like Princess Diana in front of the Taj
Mahal? What traveler has sent this card? Who is the lucky recipient?
Answer: a fellow in India
chooses THIS VERY CARD with which to guilt trip his Ceylonese
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