Ahead of this week's Kathy's Corner, Kathy Stone joined me today to chat about what's ahead this week, postcards! and a sneak at next week's programs. All with the fun and joy of a shared community.
I just watched the video last night, and it made me smile and remember the "interesting" tidbits I found on postcards. Back when I was a pre-teen, I began collecting them, cataloguing them, alphabetizing them by state/province/etc. and then by city. When the word spread, family and friends contributed to my ever-growing collection. I ended up with four shoeboxes full. Fast forward to 2010 when I was earnestly creating digital scrapbooking layouts with the stash of heritage photos I had while pairing them with ephemera. I remembered my postcards and decided to see what, if anything, I could include. I found some interesting cards, vacation postcards, 13 postcards written to my mother (before she was married) by someone named Frank, 5 postcards written to my mother from my future father, Joe. But I'm saving the best for last: I knew my parents enjoyed dancing and I found a couple of postcards from the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, pre-WW2. I set them aside, flipped them over. One had a couple of signatures on it, signed in pencil as pens were scarce during that time. I could make out "Jayne Walton". And after scrutinizing the other fancy script signature, I realized it was "Lawrence Welk". OMG! Thanks to Google, I found out that Jayne was his "leading lady" from the early 1940's, worked with him at the Aragon Ballroom. This was a good 10 years before he became famous with his TV debut. You can bet that I created a layout including those postcards. So thank you for the reference to postcards in this video. Yes, it is amazing what one might find. :-)
What an amazing collection. Thanks for sharing.
I just watched the video last night, and it made me smile and remember the "interesting" tidbits I found on postcards. Back when I was a pre-teen, I began collecting them, cataloguing them, alphabetizing them by state/province/etc. and then by city. When the word spread, family and friends contributed to my ever-growing collection. I ended up with four shoeboxes full. Fast forward to 2010 when I was earnestly creating digital scrapbooking layouts with the stash of heritage photos I had while pairing them with ephemera. I remembered my postcards and decided to see what, if anything, I could include. I found some interesting cards, vacation postcards, 13 postcards written to my mother (before she was married) by someone named Frank, 5 postcards written to my mother from my future father, Joe. But I'm saving the best for last: I knew my parents enjoyed dancing and I found a couple of postcards from the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, pre-WW2. I set them aside, flipped them over. One had a couple of signatures on it, signed in pencil as pens were scarce during that time. I could make out "Jayne Walton". And after scrutinizing the other fancy script signature, I realized it was "Lawrence Welk". OMG! Thanks to Google, I found out that Jayne was his "leading lady" from the early 1940's, worked with him at the Aragon Ballroom. This was a good 10 years before he became famous with his TV debut. You can bet that I created a layout including those postcards. So thank you for the reference to postcards in this video. Yes, it is amazing what one might find. :-)