The Tent Dinner Party

 

This is another photo that I picked up from an eBay seller in Japan, but no, it's not part of the Random Japanese Snapshot Collection.  Anyway, I'm thinking that this photo is from post-war Japan.  It looks like there are a handful of non-Asian faces in the crowd, not to mention the Rainer Beer bottles on the tables.  There's a book out there called Embracing Defeat which is about how Japan and the Japanese accepted that they had lost the war, rejected militarism, and got on with their lives as best they could, which was the foundation of the post-war Japanese economic miracle.  When I saw this photo, I suspected that it's an illustration of that concept. 

Los Angeles Indiana 12

 

If nothing else, I'm coming to the end of The Los Angeles Indiana Collection (Click on in labels to see more.)  A very quick recap, though the explanation for the collection's name can be found in other posts. I bought a couple of loose album pages from an eBay seller in Indiana, and the first page I put up had some photos with decorative borders from L.A. in sunny California.  I live in Los Angeles, and it's actually been kind of overcast the last couple of days.  Anyway, I already know how I'm going to finish up, so when I get around to it, only two more posts to end things. 

All Dressed Up to Stand Next to the Pond

 

Was it Sunday and off to church, or was this the way she usually dressed? 

It's Only Fido

 

A bit of comic relief.  I have no idea how color is added to these old, photo-based postcards.  The photographic elements can be clearly seen, but the added color doesn't seem to be in the right place.  Perhaps some sort of offset printing process. 

So, this card was mailed and there is a message written on the back. "Rec. your card.  Glad to hear you are well.  Take care of yourself.  Love, Betty" It was mailed to "Mr. C. C. Barker, Box 80, Station 6, Toledo, Ohio."  And the postmarks, one from the sending post office, and one from the receiving. "CORRY, PA  5 PM, MAY 6, 1924" "TOLEDO, OHIO STA. 6., 430 PM, MAY 17, 1924."  

Corry is in Erie County, and not all that far from Toledo.  I guess the mails were slower back then. 

House Building

 

It doesn't look like much of a photo, but if you think about it, it's kind of fascinating.  The clothes look like post-World War 2, a time when returning veterans were taking out GI loans and building homes of their own, and it looks like a house under construction on an undeveloped lot. 

Where Oh Where

 

I know it's not much of a picture, but it looked really familiar.  I'm convinced I've either been inside this building, or I've seen a better picture or postcard of it somewhere.  The woman to the right of the fountain looks somewhat 1930s.  Stamped on the back, "KODATONE"  Kodatone was a self-toning paper made by Kodak, though this picture doesn't look all that toned to me. 

Random Japanese Snapshots 2

 

 Time to return to the Random Japanese Snapshot Collection.  As I mentioned in part 1, I purchased an envelope of small snapshots from an eBay seller in Japan.  I really have no idea how random they actually are. For all I know they all came from the same family, or maybe they have no relationship to each other.  So far, there aren't that many to see, but click on Random Japanese Snapshots Collection in labels to see what's what. I'm just guessing, but I'm thinking pre-World War 2.