90 year old Valentine’s Day greetings
Cute vintage Valentine’s Day cards – early 1920s
These Valentine’s were given to my grandfather and his sister in the 1920s in Ontario. Cute? Maybe the moving eyes were bordering on creepy? They sure put a lot of effort into the cards back then.
Vintage Pick Up Lines
I’ve shared these before, but had to pull them out again in time for Valentine’s Day next month! What kinds of pick up lines have you heard in your life time? Do you think any of these would have charmed you?
On Halloween….
Here’s a cute vintage Halloween card to mark the day. I don’t know if singing ghosts is still part of the Halloween tradition today?
Thanksgiving Greetings
This postcard is also unsent and undated, so it may have been from 1916 also like the one I shared yesterday. It was sent to Leta Duck’s sister Hattie. Addressed to: Miss Harriet Cogdale 525 Newport St. East Detroit, Michigan cfo. H.Addeman Wish Hattie Thanksgiving Greeting – Well when are you coming down. Am getting…
Attempting to cook a jack rabbit in 1938
This is my all time favourite letter from my great aunt, because of the line “I’m attempting to cook a jack rabbit.” I just can’t imagine, having grown up on an extension of the same farm, what it would be like to live at home in my early twenties and to have my dad deposit…
Postcard of Sir Wilfred Laurier
Happy Canada Day! I thought this postcard would be an appropriate one to share today: Canadians will recognize this face from our five dollar bill: Wilfred Laurier. At first glance, this postcard is similar to the kind of flyer we might receive today from a political candidate. However it appears that it was signed by…
Easter postcard with metal rooster, circa 1910
This postcard has a metal rooster applied to it. The unidentified sender must have really liked it, because it is a reused card – there is another postcard glued to the back. I’m really tempted to rip it apart to see what was on the back of it the first time! The postmark is not…
1924 Easter card
When my grandfather was four, and his sister Helene was 8, she received this postcard from “some little boy.” It was probably either from her brother, my grandpa, or their cousin Billie Duck.
