Sepia Saturday - Henry Hoyt Fackler

I planned to post a somewhat scary family photo today, but I couldn't resist the automobile theme for Sepia Saturday, so I chose this one instead. Stay tuned for scary picture next week.

This is my great grandfather, Henry Hoyt Fackler, standing in front of the Chevrolet he won from the American Legion in Colony, Kansas in about 1931. Imagine winning a car during the Great Depression and how exciting that must have been. What did he do to win it? Did he catch the biggest fish? Win a prize for best painting? Enter a raffle? Unfortunately, I don't know. He does not look nearly as excited in this picture as he should though.

 

Here he is again in about 1938.

Henry Hoyt Fackler was born in Pennsylvania in 1878, but moved to Kansas at some point before he married Etta Mildred Day in 1899.  I don't know much about him except that he had a store and that he and Etta had five children. Henry died in 1946.

Here's an earlier photo  (circa 1900) of Henry Hoyt and Etta.

Columbia, South Carolina

I just realized that I have five posts for North Carolina and none at all for South Carolina. To make amends, here are several cards from Columbia, South Carolina, capital city of South Carolina, and boyhood home of Woodrow Wilson.

Here are the backs of the cards in the same order.

Pan-Pacific Peace Exhibition, Nagoya, Japan

The Pan-Pacific Peace Exhibition was a World's Fair that attracted almost five million visitors to Nagoya, Japan between March and May, 1937. The exhibition was sponsored by the Japanese government, with HIH Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko as chairman.

 

World's Fair exhibitions were held in many different countries over the years to highlight new developments in science, industry, architecture, and other fields. None of the other fairs had the word 'peace' in the title though, which is particularly sad and ironic in this case. Japan invaded eastern China in what was to become the Sino-Japanese War barely a month after the end of the exhibition. This conflict then merged into the greater World War II conflict.

If you went to the exhibition, you might have stayed at this hotel.

Here's what the back of the postcards look like.