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. 

L.A. Family Photos 3

   

I've been calling this the L.A. Family Photo collection because I've got photos from Topanga Canyon and Los Angles itself.  White Oak Lodge, very likely from Tehachapi, a not very long drive from L.A., and now, the top photo in the column labeled "Camp 7 Yosemite."  Again, California, though a lot farther north.  But we also have the bottom photo in the column labeled "Toledo, Ohio."  Interesting two dates, May 1929, and June 1930.  Somewhat between those two dates is September 4, 1929, and the beginning of the great depression.  Were Ralph and Joy visitors to California who lived full time in Toledo, or were they making a visit to see family back home in Ohio?  I bought these photos in an L.A. area antique store, so I'd say that somehow or another, Ralph and Joy ended up as Californians.  

Click on LA Family Collection in labels to see the full and completed collection.