About Me
- Christine H.
- I love antique postcards because they preserve evidence of everyday life as well as celebrations and sad events. Looking at an old postcard is like holding a single piece of a puzzle; we have to imagine the rest. I will try to put up a postcard every day. If you have a special request for a particular city or place, let me know!
Wonder who it was that "walked by here" in '46. Hmmm.
ReplyDeleteYou cornered us here. :)
ReplyDeleteMany many thanks for your comment, Christine.
ReplyDeleteA lot of emotion, detail and energy in the message on the back of that card, the author probably should have gone into writing travel guides...
ReplyDeleteIt really doesn't get any better than that message! The fact that they wanted people to know they'd walked by J.J. Newberry and Kress is amazing. Don't you want to know what they walked by next?
ReplyDeleteSuper, super post card scene. Love the note on the back, too. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteDid there used to be many more postcards printed and sent than now? I can't imagine this being produced nowadays, let alone posted but there's so much in it it marks a moment in time; a real document of history; and that someone took the trouble to draw it - and so well!
ReplyDeleteThe message on the back is the invisible title for most of our photographic blogs.
It's pretty random which of your postcards I see because I don't visit every day - but I'm glad I happened upon this one.
Lucy
Fabulous card! The architecture of that J.J. Newberry store is just too cool.
ReplyDeleteIt's hopping!
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