Hope

It's just a coincidence that yesterday's post was entitled 'Signs of Hope.'  I bought a number of old photo postcards some months ago, and I found myself particularly drawn to the ones that seemed to personify a thought or a feeling. This young lady is so lovely, and her face is so full of hope.

Here is the back of the card. As hard as I tried, I couldn't make out the photographer's name.

Signs of Hope

Margaret Whitney sent this lovely card to her friend Sara in the hospital.
These days there's more distance between the signs of hope. You could wait a long time for a real letter. When's the last time you received one?

Hotel Hermitage - New York

This hotel could hardly look more drab and uninviting, except for the advertisement painted on the side of the building promising single rooms for $1.50 and double rooms for $2.50. For less than $250, you could have rented the entire hotel for your private party. Another interesting and typical feature of this postcard is that the surrounding buildings are obscured. In black-and-white photographs this may have seemed necessary to guide the viewer's eye to the intended focus. Still, I don't think it makes the hotel appear in the best light. I think we need some bright colors here.

Although there is no date on this card, the grayed out marquis on the neighboring movie theater is screening A Woman Rebels, starring Katherine Hepburn, a film that came out in 1936.