Wild Postcards

Here’s a postcard that Kay Anthony received in 1947 as part of a swap.  Mildred Wickham of Cumberland, Ohio, wrote the card on July 10, 1947, but didn’t mail it until four days later.  Mildred writes:

“Dear Pal: Thanks for lovely v. card of last mo. It wasn’t stamped at all in P.O. It’s raining this eve. I took ill last eve stomach spell, sore mouth. It’s due to a lack of vitamon (sic) B. Because my system won’t absorb it properly. I take lots of them. Jesus is precious to me & He never fails, Bless His sweet name.”

This is a Curteich “C. T. Art Colortone” postcard, number 6B-H224, manufactured in 1946 and distributed by the Black and Grant Company of Zanesville.

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Here’s a postcard that Kay Anthony received in 1947 as part of a swap.  Mildred Wickham of Cumberland, Ohio, wrote the card on July 10, 1947, but didn’t mail it until four days later.  Mildred writes: “Dear Pal: Thanks for lovely v. card of last mo. It wasn’t stamped at all in P.O. It’s raining [...]

“Bridge Spanning Cuyahoga River on Ohio Turnpike.” I don’t want to be too technical, but it appears that the bridge pictured is spanning the Ohio Turnpike. Unless, of course, they built the turnpike on the riverbed. Hope they don’t get a lot of rain! Actually, what I think is happening in this picture is that, once one reaches the rise in the distance, there be the bridge — making this card woefully mislabeled. Blame our old friends the Tichnor Bros. of Boston 15, Mass., who manufactured this “Lusterchrome” card. (What, it doesn’t look lustrous to you?)

Great Aunt Esther sent this card off to Great-Grandma Lottie on November 17, 1958: “We are on our way to Peninsula on this side of Akron Ohio, to see a man that did work for Bill. He is not able to work anymore.” Come on, Esther; I’m not looking for a full biography or anything, but did you have to leave us hanging like that? Did the man lose a leg or something?

“Bridge Spanning Cuyahoga River on Ohio Turnpike.” I don’t want to be too technical, but it appears that the bridge pictured is spanning the Ohio Turnpike. Unless, of course, they built the turnpike on the riverbed. Hope they don’t get a lot of rain! Actually, what I think is happening in this picture is that, [...]

I couldn’t let Air Force Day go by without a salute to my brothers and sisters in blue. I thought I’d post a card that isn’t typical of what people think when they think “Air Force.”

“The Huskie, displayed at the AF Museum, W-PAFB (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base), Ohio, was used primarily for crash rescue and aircraft fire-fighting. It carried two rescuemen/fire fighters and a fire suppression kit suspended beneath the aircraft. It could often reach a crashed airplane before ground vehicles arrived. Foam from the kit plus the powerful downwash of air from the rotors could open a path through flames allowing rescuers to reach crash victims.”

This helicopter had only an 860 horsepower engine, but it had a top speed of 120 miles per hour and a range of 185 miles. It’s a little over 17 feet high and 47 feet long, and the rotors are as long as the craft itself. It had a ceiling of 25,000 feet. I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t want to be up that high in a chopper, watching passenger jets cruise by.

I couldn’t let Air Force Day go by without a salute to my brothers and sisters in blue. I thought I’d post a card that isn’t typical of what people think when they think “Air Force.” “The Huskie, displayed at the AF Museum, W-PAFB (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base), Ohio, was used primarily for crash rescue [...]

“Champion Four Horse Hitch of Belgian horses and imported Bavarian beer wagon owned and used by The Leisy Brewing Company, Cleveland, Ohio, brewers of Leisy’s Light and Leisy’s Dortmunder type beers.” They would close for good by 1958, saying that they were taxed out of existence. While probably true, I think that their other problem was that their delivery methods were too slow.

This card was sent to Great-Grandma Charlotte Smith from Willoughby, Ohio (tagline: “The Courtesy City”) which, after seeing pictures on their website of a brass band playing in a gazebo, creeps me out. It looks like that episode from The Twilight Zone.

This card was sent by her sister Leola, who writes: “Well, Wendell (and) I are in Ohio at Ruth’s and about froze. Sure is chilly out here close to the lake. How is your arm is it cool at your place. Tell Pete not to look to (sic) long at the picture” — Pete being her name for Great-Grandpa Phil.

What really gets me is that the card was sent with no street address, just the city, and it got there.

“Champion Four Horse Hitch of Belgian horses and imported Bavarian beer wagon owned and used by The Leisy Brewing Company, Cleveland, Ohio, brewers of Leisy’s Light and Leisy’s Dortmunder type beers.” They would close for good by 1958, saying that they were taxed out of existence. While probably true, I think that their other problem [...]