Bon Ami

What better place to be than sitting on the porch on a Bon Ami soap box. Bon Ami still makes the same scouring powder, which works just as well as it always did. Unfortunately, if you buy a case of it you will no longer receive a free crate chair, just a cardboard box.

Here's the back of the card.

Pasadena, California

Pasadena has beautiful houses and an ideal climate. It also has the annual Tournament of Roses Parade,  a tradition since 1890.  Here you can see the students from Madison School marching in one of the early parades.

Below is a view of Pasadena showing the Colorado Street Bridge, also known as the Arroyo Seco Bridge. The bridge is still there after some seismic retrofitting in recent decades. It's on the National Rregister of Historic Places and has a also been designated National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.

 Although it still stands, the bridge is dwarfed somewhat by the adjacent freeway bridge.

Photo by Bobak Ha'Eri Source

The first card has no message on the back, but the second one does. I'm interested in the name of the recipient, Miss Cunard W. Lind. I find her in the 1910 Census as a two-year old boy. I can only think that the census taker wrongly assumed it was a boy. The parents were Swedish.
The message is a little difficult to read.

Here's a quick try.

L.A. 2-6-26
Loved _____ at Home. The weather is _____ clear and warm here saw some of Los Angeles yesterday.  _______ this morning for San Diego for a few days will return here and ____until the Boat sails _______
Grant Widel's son in Law is the captain of the boat. Have called for mail but nix so far. 
Joe

Herzlichen Glückwunsch

If it's your birthday today, I hope you're spending it in a boat full of roses and forget-me-nots.

The card was addressed to Miss Lola Bonjour, who, despite her name, was not a French dancer. Instead, she was a farmer's daughter born in 1924 in the small town of Apple River, Illinois (current population 366.) Later in life she taught cake decorating and knitting and crocheting. In fact she still knits and crochets. How do I know? Because I had a nice conversation with Lola who is alive and well. This card went off in the mail to her yesterday.

The message on the back of the card reads:

from jours friend.
Andrew Stuessy

I found an Andrew Stuessy, born in Switzerland in about 1864, who lived across the border from Illinois in New Glarus, Wisconsin. Lola couldn't remember offhand who Andrew was, and since there is no postmark it's hard to pin it down.