Postcard Stories
I started collecting postcards awhile ago. It's not necessarily the postcards that I'm interested in, but the stories, the notes written on the backs of the postcards! And not those, "we love it, don't want to come home, wish you were here" notes, but the ones with spice, scandal and story to them. Here's a sample of what I've started collecting. A translation is underneath the pics.
Pvt. Dorathea J. Siverly A617465
S.C.U. 1915 WacDet Dec 5
Madigan Gen. Hosp
Fort Lewis, Wash
Hi there Butch How are you & Kenny these days? Are you having a nice time on the farm Do you see Grandpa every day? Well I am fine and hope to see you soon. Be a good boy & send me a card soon. Bye now. Love, Aunt Dorfie
To Mr. Roger Wilson
R. R. #1
Brethern
Mich
For me, it's that there was someone actually called Butch and that he had an aunt who was in the Army in the '40s, which is all I can really make out by the postmark.
This is one of my favorites!
Mailed out from Gainesville, GA March 10, 1980 - where the writer got this old postcard I'll never know.
Dear Ronnie & Aunt Heidi -
Terry & I got married today in S. Carolina We've eloped but gave good warning. We're on our way home now. Hope we'll see ya'll soon. I'm very happy. Love Barbee Lew (Lea? Liu?)
To Mrs. Elizabeth P. Marshar
PO Box 1222
Eustis, (scratched out)
Florida 32726 (underneath that is a note with an arrow pointing to the scratch out, "I'm not too nervous")
I have another full set of cards but trying to get them scanned and translated is a bit of a chore. I'll try again later. But here's a teaser, the young man that wrote the cards bought them on his travels. Instead of sending his mother a much desired letter, he wrote the "letter" on each of the 20 postcards he was going to send her. So it's a very long and hilarious story that sounds like something a new college student would write to his mom.
Pvt. Dorathea J. Siverly A617465
S.C.U. 1915 WacDet Dec 5
Madigan Gen. Hosp
Fort Lewis, Wash
Hi there Butch How are you & Kenny these days? Are you having a nice time on the farm Do you see Grandpa every day? Well I am fine and hope to see you soon. Be a good boy & send me a card soon. Bye now. Love, Aunt Dorfie
To Mr. Roger Wilson
R. R. #1
Brethern
Mich
For me, it's that there was someone actually called Butch and that he had an aunt who was in the Army in the '40s, which is all I can really make out by the postmark.
This is one of my favorites!
Mailed out from Gainesville, GA March 10, 1980 - where the writer got this old postcard I'll never know.
Dear Ronnie & Aunt Heidi -
Terry & I got married today in S. Carolina We've eloped but gave good warning. We're on our way home now. Hope we'll see ya'll soon. I'm very happy. Love Barbee Lew (Lea? Liu?)
To Mrs. Elizabeth P. Marshar
PO Box 1222
Eustis, (scratched out)
Florida 32726 (underneath that is a note with an arrow pointing to the scratch out, "I'm not too nervous")
I have another full set of cards but trying to get them scanned and translated is a bit of a chore. I'll try again later. But here's a teaser, the young man that wrote the cards bought them on his travels. Instead of sending his mother a much desired letter, he wrote the "letter" on each of the 20 postcards he was going to send her. So it's a very long and hilarious story that sounds like something a new college student would write to his mom.