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Images long cast out into
the postal vortex, with no idea they’d resurface decades later to
be scrutinized. |
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He puts on arcade
chaps and gun and poses in a classic paper moon pose. Probably
around 1910. Did he send it to his sweetheart? Was she swayed? I
would have been.
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The
stamp on this card came out in 1960, indicating that this
overcrowded nurseryful of Baby Boomers would be about 45 today.
Poor little abandoned waifs, lined up while their mothers sleep off
half a pint of anesthesia, with terrifying wall décor enhancing the
scenario.
And what’s this?
It’s the dads! Suavely dressed, and sheltered in the waiting room so
as not to be subjected to the carnage within.
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More babies,
these seen on a 1908 Salvation Army fundraiser piece. Perhaps some
of these now-near-centenarians survive today? |
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Probably not taken in Minot—the name of any city could be stamped
in, regardless of whether young inebriates were actually found
sleeping it off around town.
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Did Rose Marie go
on to lead a glamorous life? I hope so. And that this was the LAST
time she was likened unto a motor vehicle. |
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Let’s hope that if somebody ratted him
out for the handsome $25 reward, Clarence Miller did his time at
Walla Walla honorably and is living a quiet life somewhere at the
age of 94.
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Oh, wait…we know
where HE is. |
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this small tot with drooping diaper thus? Card was mailed in 1965,
so he’s probably around 45 now. Does he know this image circulated
throughout the land? |
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Roy Cross of
Kalispell, MT. Miss Ruth McKinley, also of Kalispell. And J.H.
Feeney, Kerouac-esque from “Everywhere.”
Look how J.H. is looking at
Ruth. If you are the descendent of J.H. and Ruth, tell me your
great-grandpa was conceived in that tent while Roy and the
photographer were fishing!
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