tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36570029560474387342024-03-21T20:40:44.139-07:00David Does DeltiologyHackenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15507810776309048794noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657002956047438734.post-85184770950890257912020-07-04T11:28:00.000-07:002020-07-04T11:28:33.610-07:00Happy Independence Day!<div style="text-align: center;">
A couple of pieces for you on the 4th of July, 2020. I'm staying in. If you go out, be safe.</div>
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This card is circa 1940.</div>
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The history of Tyne and Wear is too complicated to go into here but here's a picture.</div>
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Hackenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15507810776309048794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657002956047438734.post-10439267369581419622020-04-21T09:48:00.000-07:002020-04-21T15:19:30.360-07:00Watermelon for Everyone!<div style="text-align: center;">
These are strange times we're living in. Thought this would be appropriate.</div>
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I have a small collection of these cards, known as "Tall-Tales". They feature mostly exaggerated fruits, vegetables, and animals. This one dates from around 1910. There is a second version with the same card number 530 but with a younger man with a mustache.<br />
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Hackenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15507810776309048794noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657002956047438734.post-24093860126115121052019-12-23T07:18:00.001-08:002019-12-23T07:18:46.927-08:00Happy Hanukkah!Today is the first day of Hanukkah. I don't own a menorah or more properly, a hanukkyah. I do have this nice first day cover from 1996. Happy Chanukkah to all my Jewish friends and to anyone else who would like to join in. <br />
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I'm going to watch my Bears play the Lions today then have a small family gathering. Hope you all find something to be thankful for today.</div>
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Hard to believe this beautiful card is 111 years old. </div>
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<span style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;">"On </span><span style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;">Thanksgiving Day afternoon (November 28), a crowd of 25,000 turned out in Philadelphia to watch unbeaten </span><span style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;">Pennsylvania host unbeaten </span><span style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate;">Cornell. Quarterback Albert Miller guided Pennsylvania to a 17-4 win. Though Penn "found the boys from the shores of Lake Cayuga a harder proposition than she looked for", wrote a New York Times reporter, they "closed the season without once drinking from the bitter cup of defeat, and to-night her followers are claiming at least equal rank with Harvard.".</span><br />
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Of course, on the North Side, fans were still basking in the glow of the Cubs recent World Series repeat win over Ty Cobb and the Tigers from Detroit.</div>
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Hackenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15507810776309048794noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657002956047438734.post-4238001885187001232019-08-12T13:26:00.001-07:002019-08-12T13:39:03.603-07:00A Postcard from The Pyrenees<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Pau Le Gave et les Pyrenees vus de la Place Royale Les Basses Pyrenees</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Franconville is currently a suburb northwest of Paris. One of its notables was post-impressionist artist, Marcel L'Enfant.</span><br />
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Hackenbushhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15507810776309048794noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657002956047438734.post-57735357740360572982019-08-06T10:40:00.001-07:002019-08-06T12:31:43.756-07:00Love the Drake!How does one begin a blog? Well, I guess this one has already begun. My first post was of a Ron Santo postcard. Not only does it express my love of sports and the Cubs but also my love of Chicago. You will see a lot of my city here. There's nothing particularly significant about this postal but I have to start somewhere.<br />
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I'm still really a neophyte when it comes to postcard collecting. I know some of the lingo and the history but I'm still learning. Feel free to correct me if I get something wrong or share your knowledge either about the hobby or the specifics of a card.<br />
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I'm a North Sider so this is a familiar sight, that is, the more recent view of this area. What you're looking at seems to be a pre-1930 view. The Palmolive Building is shown without it's beacon which was added in 1930.</div>
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The sign was illuminated in 1940, a year before this postcard was mailed.</div>
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One of the things that attracts me to deltiology is the time capsule aspect. This card has captured a specific moment in time and place. Who were Harry and Tony? What was going on December 29, 1941? December 1941. Pearl Harbor. America was just three weeks into WWII. I did a small bit of research on Tony Geluso. If I have the right man, he was about 28 years old and had, at least recently, been living with his parents and younger brother.</div>
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Anthony appears to have enlisted in the Navy, survived the war and lived to age 69. He married his wife Esther just after the war in 1946. </div>
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The address the Geluso's were living at seems now to be occupied by a newer building housing the Kent County Human Services.</div>
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Founding member of the Moody Blues, Ray Thomas was born on December 29, 1941.</div>
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That's about all I have. Please don't expect this of every postcard. Thanks for stopping by.</div>
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