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Postcard Of My Grandmother

 
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Posted 08/14/2012   8:22 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Zipper to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Don't know how old this is. She was born in 1891.

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Posted 08/14/2012   9:10 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add tomiseksj to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Zipper,

Was the card sent through the mail and, if so, would you post a copy of the back?

Any idea where the photo was taken?

Steve
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Posted 08/14/2012   9:34 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Zipper to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Never mailed, the back is clean. It would have been taken in Chicago, but that's all I'm sure of. I have another one with a different pose somewhere, but of course it's packed in one of many boxes of old magazines and newspapers.
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Posted 08/14/2012   9:55 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Zipper to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The back is faint, but perhaps the layout might indicate a time period.


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Posted 08/14/2012   10:04 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
azo postcard

4 triangles pointing up = 1904-1918

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Edited by rod222 - 08/14/2012 10:05 pm
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Posted 08/14/2012   10:26 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Zipper to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks, rod222. So she would have been less than 27 years old. Married already, she and her husband owned a Saloon. She cooked for the joint, and when customers bought a beer, they ate free. (We had an old wood bar stool in our attic, and a beer bucket in our pantry.)

Very shortly after this postcard photo was taken, Prohibition would have taken effect. She told me that she bought her beer from Al Capone then -- they lived on the South Side. They weren't shut down for running a "speak" because they were across the street from International Harvester, and the workers would have rioted if the cops took away their beer.
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Posted 08/14/2012   10:35 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Ahhhh..The days of yore.
The reason most collect stamps, we visit other times,
we are desk ridden time-travellers.

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Quote:
The reason most collect stamps, we visit other times,
we are desk ridden time-travellers.


I love that description. It sounds so poetic and even a bit romanticized.

P.S. Nice postcard =) It's nice to have that bit of history from your family. I am working on my family tree but I don't have much information pre-dating the 60's.
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I agree- so whimsical sounding..nice!


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The reason most collect stamps, we visit other times,
we are desk ridden time-travellers.
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