Ir has been a while since we took up the question of popular song. This is a subject which is a lot more fun in retrospect. If I say a little ditty from 2010 was popular, I must be challenged by people who tell me it was NOT a “pop song”, that it wasContinue reading “Sing Me a Song of Postal Significance”
Tag Archives: Postcards
Rabbit Hole Bread
All I wanted was the answer to one simple question. I thought it was going to be “This is another product of food corporations hiring Home Economics majors to make up recipes and dates to 1954”. Ah, that might have been possible in the LAST century. But now we have those Interwebs. ByContinue reading “Rabbit Hole Bread”
No Crime to Rhyme
I thought we might conclude our consideration of postcard poetry with the ever-popular miscellaneous section. There are always a few postcards which don’t fit in other categories (at least not in my inventory) but which are too good to allow to slide by. The item at the top of this column is, ofContinue reading “No Crime to Rhyme”
A Letter Is Better
There are those of you who are not going to understand a word of this column, But stick with me: I’ll explain. Once upon a time, younglings, we did not have the electronic communications devices of today. There were no computers, so email, texting, tweeting, social media sites, and all that was…no, wait. Continue reading “A Letter Is Better”
Moldy Miscellany
And here we are again, on another Monday, preparing to face the week. What is the one thing you need to be fully prepared? A good breakfast? Aspirin? A few red jellybeans? No, what we need is another old joke quiz? (If you knew the answer already, you are ready for both theContinue reading “Moldy Miscellany”
Hard Thinking
It is Monday, and time for another old joke quiz. The theme for this Monday is one which has perhaps changed its name with the new century. Once these were known as moron jokes, or dumbbell jokes, or some such. I prefer, as someone who has frequently decided to save time by washing theContinue reading “Hard Thinking”
GGA Rhyme Scheme
‘Tis Spring, or so they tell me. Living in the Midwest, we all know it isn’t REALLY Spring until we have put our winter coats away for the season…for the fourth time. (My personal record for winter coat wearing is June fifteenth, but they aren’t making summers the way they used to.) InContinue reading “GGA Rhyme Scheme”
Banker as Santa?
I have been led down another rabbit hole by a mildly boring art postcard, and I am going to take you with me as I reflect on the trip. But first, let me introduce you to a Chicago banker of a previous century. Lyman Gage made his mark in Chicago, where he startedContinue reading “Banker as Santa?”
Double Dutch
When last we spoke, we were discussing the Dutch kids in love, those smiling, happy wooden-shoed children who, at least in American postcards of the 1910s, spoke a fluent Pennsylvania Dutch, to nag about why you haven’t written, to espouse certain positive philosophies, or to reflect on the course of love. (As noted byContinue reading “Double Dutch”
Wooden Shoe Know It
It has been a little while since we checked in with the Dutch kids, and their postcards do keep rolling in. For those of you who missed my earlier perorations on the subject, there was, in the 1910s, a mysterious (to me, anyhow) fascination with postcards featuring children who dressed in the folk costumeContinue reading “Wooden Shoe Know It”
