As always, any spelling/grammatical mistakes are copied verbatim from the cards.
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| July 3, 1932 Addressed to Grandma. Text below. |
"Just to say Hello and hoping you'll write soon how do you like it? Guess."
My guess is that this is from Grandma's friend Mary, and I'm almost positive my guess is right. This was sent to her during the brief time she lived in Virginia. Also, this card is kind of naughty, haha.
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| May 19, 1933 Addressed to Grandpa. Text below. |
"Dear [redacted]: Could you mail me the name & address of your new President? Was over to [city name redacted] last Saturday. I saw the Parade. It was good. Was that you in the old black ford with white printing on. "WAIT UNTIL I BECOME PRESIDENT." The funniest thing he stoped in front of me & performed then turned & went back towards [city name redacted]. Your guilty! I heard something nice about Fred & not from the preacher either. Will see you at the next business meeting. Sincerely Alice M."
It amuses/baffles/vaguely annoys me that I almost never understand what any of these people are talking about on these cards. Seriously, what is going on here? I have virtually no idea, although I will say that I don't think Alice is referring to the President of the USA here. I gather from the cards that Grandpa knew Alice from church. I think she may be referring to president of the Board of Trustees at church. Or, since Grandpa was a police officer, perhaps the president of his union.
Also, I chuckled at someone from 1933 referring to any car as "old." Hadn't the car really only been a part of the American landscape for about twenty years at this point?
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| July 11, 1933 Addressed to Grandpa. Text below. |
"Dear [nickname redacted]: I bet [location redacted] is running along smoothly by now and that most of your time is spent entertaining the girls. We've had a swell time in spite of our seasickness. The lake was terribly rough when we came over. Minnie."
Although I hardly knew him, it's hard to imagine my grandpa as a ladies' man. He seems to have been running some kind of camp this summer. I find it interesting that, rather than driving to Milwaukee back then, people took a boat across Lake Michigan.
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| July 21, 1933 Addressed to Grandpa. Text below. |
"Dear [redacted]: Assembly is great. I must miss Piggott [?] from your church. Sorry Kelly was sick I couldn't come. There are 15 from Kazoo Asso. that I know of. Did you know Allen W. has gone to North Carolina? As Ever, Alice Moffit."
Maybe it's just Alice Moffit who never makes any sense.
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| July 27, 1933 Addressed to Grandpa. Text below. |
"Dear [redacted] - Just arrived today. We have seen a great deal of Chicago already - not the Fair, yet. There are four other girls in the same room with me and it is a grand room. Wish you were here. We are staying until Sat. nite - Bessie."
Grandpa sure had a lot of lady friends, didn't he? None of them are my grandma. Yet.
2 comments:
I love that one of Michigan Avenue. I wonder what the view looks like today. When I had more downtime at my job, I used to look at Shorpy.com where old photos were posted. Sometimes, if someone posted a photo of recognizable street in a city someone else would do a screen grab of that same spot on Google Earth. So I guess I could do that, but alas, I'm not that motivated.
Those women sure are flirty. I love the "cheek" postcard.
I was trying to find an image for you, but there were too many pictures to look through for my lazybones. However, I did discover that someone is selling that same postcard on Ebay for $5.99. It's probably in mint condition though (unlike mine).
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