“Camptown: Luxurious Campground. Heated swimming pool, whirlpool and sauna, fishing, tennis, archery, pitch and putt golf course, minutes from Disney World and other major attractions!” Hell, why bother with Disney World when you have all these amenities? Joan and Dick apparently sent this to their friend back home in New York, in February 1987. “Hi. [...]
Here’s a card from my grandfather’s sister, Helen Henderson, mailed September 1, 1981. She writes: “Stayed here 2 nights. Was in D.C. park & saw Pandas. (Pandas? In the park? — Ed.) Thanks again for what you did for me.” I have no idea what that might have been, although if I remember correctly, her [...]
This is card number S-66168, published by Dexter Press of West Nyack, NY. My friend James, who grew up in South Carolina about 15 miles from where this card was sent, says that it was just this way — except that these guys are having a hard time of it. Usually, James says, the plants [...]
This may look like a real photo postcard, but it’s actually a black-and-white photochrome postcard with a deckled edge. It was published by Dexter Press of Pearl River, New York. Owens-Illinois was a key place in my family’s history. This from the obituary of my grandmother, Mildred Cossaboon, who passed away on 27 March 2008: [...]
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