A Toast

Tram Tuesday - Tacoma Washington

Be sure to check out the previous Tacoma Streetcar Sunday post.

Today's Tacoma postcard shows a streetcar in front of the Hotel Donnelly and Grand Theatre, a building that was demolished in 1925. A sign on the front of the building advertises oysters.

Maye sent this card to her mother, Mrs. J.C. Browne of Grants Pass, Oregon in 1908, with amessage that reads:

Dear Mother

We leave for Seattle this eve will be there about a week. write me Am having a dandy good time

lovingly Maye

It all looks the same. I don't like Tacoma.

Are We Hungarians?

This writing looks like it could be Hungarian, but I really don't know. What I do know is that I was so transfixed by the image that I had to buy the card.  This group doesn't quite fit together, and I can't provide an explanation. They could be characters in a play, but the man who is standing on the right really does look as if he has worked hard and been exposed to the elements. The man on the left, looks as if he just came riding up on his horse.  Do you have any ideas? I guess we would have a better idea what this was about if someone could decipher the message on the back.

Here's the back of the card, from two different directions, just in case someone can actually read this.

The photo below has nothing to do with the postcard. It just brought it to mind. It's a sign I photographed at a church not far from my house, which presumably was meant to say Food Donations for the Hungry.