The Happy Couple

 

Well, if nothing else, they look like they enjoy each other's company.

Florida QSL Card, Sort Of

 

I'm not part of the ham radio community, so I hope I'm getting this right.  QSL cards are the way ham radio operators keep track of who talks to whom.  Anyway, a few weeks ago I bought a small envelope of QSL cards.  Most of them were personalized images, drawings rather than photographs.  For those who are interested in such things, I've put a couple of them up on my Fair Use blog which I use for non-photographic bits of ephemera I've collected, as well as the huge number of images I've found while surfing the web that I've found interesting enough that I'd like to save and review from time to time.  

So, back to this card.  It's not a great image, just a commercially produced postcard with some ham radio info handwritten on the back.  The caption, "Cypress trees many centuries old grow far out in the waters of Lake Eloise at Florida's Cypress Gardens, and together with the brilliant flowers form a picture of the South that will never be forgotten" The card's publisher, "Florida Natural Color, Inc. 2652 N.E. 189th St., Miami, Fla 33163" The card doesn't look like it was ever mailed.  There's no stamp or postmark.  It was, however, addressed to "BILL, P.O. 6250, TITUSVILLE, FLA 32780."  And now for the ham radio stuff, "KENWOOD-T.S. 520, D-104, WILSON S.S. QUAD 45" And written separately, "ViA John, SSB-124."  Anyone who understands ham radio can translate what all the letters and numbers mean and put in the comments section at the bottom of the post.   

Don't Fall Off

 

 She looks like she's high enough off the ground that it'll hurt if she falls off.  But it's a great shot. 

His Girlfriend's Clothes

  

Or perhaps his sister's.  Nice hat, by the way. Dated "May 1937"  

Bottle Fed

   

Someone cut the top off of this photo to feature the baby and her bottle.  My best guess is probably around two-thirds of the image has been trimmed off.  Dated "JUN 55."  

More Throw-Ins

 

So, I'm pretty much open to comments.  Apart from hate speech, I'll pretty much leave anything up.  If you want to tell me my written thoughts are idiotic, say so and I'll leave it up.  There is one thing, however, that I'll delete as soon as I see it.  Please don't put up an advertisement in the comments section. 

 So, as I've noted before, I buy a fair number of envelopes of miscellaneous prints.   Of course, there are always some prints I really want, but there are also some throw-ins.  They're not necessarily bad photos, just ones that I wouldn't buy if they were only available as individual shots, and this is one of them. 

Confident Young Men

  

I don't know if this photo looks so familiar because I've already posted it and threw it in the wrong storage box, or because it was supposed to be the next one up, and somehow or another it got shunted into aside.  Anyway, these guys all look like they're ready to face the world.  For obvious reasons, I've spent a lot of time thinking about war for the past few weeks.  My guess is this photo is from the twenties, or perhaps early thirties, that they are all high school kids, (With a much older teacher in the lower right corner.)  and most would have ended up serving during World War 2.  I have to wonder, how many survived?