Where is this postcard from?
Author: Janet McKee
I currently wear many hats. My interests are genealogy, history, reading, knitting, and more. I now live in an assisted living retirement community.
Erwartung – In Expectation
Tenderness
Postcard image
Treasure to a Postcard Collector
Golf in Hawaii
Royal Kaanapali Golf Course – First Green
I wonder if my mother ever played this course. She lived in Wailuku Maui on the other side of the island from Kaanapali. The more modest Maui Country Club was closer and less spectacular.
More Good Finds at The Postcard Club Meeting
Sankaty Head on Nantucket Island Massachusetts
There was no message on this card but the printing style is old – ear;ly 20th century? I visited this spot many summers in the early 1950’s. A favorite. One summer when I was staying in Siasconset I met a young and lonely coastguardsman who liked to hook rugs – a passion we shared on that beautiful bluff. Sounds like the beginning of a story set in 1850, not 1950.
Lighthouse in Machias Maine written in July1909. A good friend of 80+ years lives in Machias.
Lighthouse in Stranraer Scotland
Best Postcard Found Today
A woman at her spinning wheel The postage stamp is Norwegian.
The Lurdy Blanket
Great mix and compilation/completion.
When I was still living on Flotta, the island heritage centre was being
planned. It consists of a typical Orkney
house and byre, and the plan was to make the house as it would have been during
WWII, when there were so many servicemen stationed on the island. The byre was to be a museum.
The house still had box beds, and the craft group decided it would be
nice to make squares for a blanket for one of the beds. At one time most beds had this sort of cover,
made from either scraps of fabric or from ends of wool.
It was decided that our blanket would be made up from 4″ squares,
in all shades of blue and green. The
knitted square was done diagonally so that tension or yearn weight would not
matter. The yarns used were all Shetland
wool, 4 ply and DK from both…
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My Mother’s Diary – Gifts Purchased
I don’t know all the people listed. Alice is the 3rd sister, one year younger than my mother. Aunt Alice to me. The parents – father is Alfred W. Friend, my grandfather, Grandpa to me. Mother is May Belle Willis Friend, Grandma Friend to me. Auntie is Eunice Augusta Friend, my grandfather’s sister, my great aunt, Auntie to me.
For her father she bought socks in London
For her mother she bought lace in London and gloves in Paris
For her mother and father she bought playing cards in Edinburgh
For Auntie she bought beads in Ripon England, a toothbrush in Bournemouth, gloves in Paris
For Alice she bought a rabbit in London, a set of something I can’t decipher in London, coffee spoons in Edinburgh,, dogs in Montmartre, gloves in Paris.
the three sisters – Dorothy (Dot, Dottie), Alice, Lib (Libby) 1920’s
Auntie and Grandma Friend, 1939
Grandpa Friend and Auntie 1950 approx.
Day 50 – Arrival in New York, Friday July 27, 1934
The sisters got up at 7:30 after she and Lib had laughed and laughed about their trip and getting home. They were in New York Harbor with six or eight tugs playing around. Saw the Monarch of Bermuda go out, later the Majestic.
They got their passports checked and their landing cards before breakfast.
Saw the Statue of Liberty.
Said goodby to people and waited on the boat for a time while the crowd got off, then disembarked and waited and waited for our baggage. American Express man was there. A nice steward helped them.
Virginia met them and rode in the taxi with them to Grand Central where they had lunch.
They got the 3 o’clock train. Hot. They were in an unairconditioned car. Train was full.
Met by the family at 8:15 in Back Bay. Rode home and talked until twelve. She felt rotten – still traveling on the ocean.
sample passenger list (I can’t find the list for their particular trip)
Lower Manhattan, New York Harbor 1934
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