Goodbye 13, Hello 14!

Just getting this New Years post in at the last minute. I wanted to share some New Years-ish ephemera with you from my collection, I say New Years-ish, because this particular postcard you see below is not totally New Years related, but it feels like New Years to me. Especially since attached to it is a printed calender for the year 1977. Also, the Inn reminds me of Holiday Inn.  This Lovett's Inn still exisit. Maybe you will go there if you're in New Hampshire.

Just in case you're not familiar with the film Holiday Inn (and from what I've heard, the chain of motels did take there name from the film) here are some images from the film.

The other piece of ephemera is this Happy New years card from 1876! Looks like it was from some business. 1876 was the year the first telephone call was made. It was only 11 years after Lincoln was shot.

The last thing I want to share is this snapshot of some kind of party. I'm gonna pretend it's a new years party.  I mean what is going on here?

The lady in white seems a bit traumatized by this party. 

Well, hey I am already hearing fireworks.  

Get your kicks, pals! Mine involve some lady comedy and hard cider.  Happy New Year!!

in the midst of winter

We're almost halfway through winter now. How is it treating you? Winter has been very mild here and it may never get truly wintery. Most people are thrilled with this. But, I like winter. I'm still enjoying it and I do especially like cold sunny days. But, it mostly feels like spring has already begun. Hopefully we will get some proper winter days before it's over.

I recently got this neat old photo of some turn of the century girls making a snowman in their backyard. How neat to see! This is something I haven't seen that much of, snow pictures this casual from this time period. Neat to see the backyard, too.

And here are a couple more pictures of snow to welcome February.

 

Lovely Valentines

I just love this charming vintage valentine postcard. It is in such great shape and there is no writing on it. Seems almost brand new. Someone must of held on to it for years because they just thought it was pretty. Same reason I am holding on to it.

I hope you all have a lovely Valentines weekend!

There is a little blog party that occurs every Friday called Postcard Freindship Friday hosted by The French Factrice. I don't often get the time on a Friday night to take part, but I can tonight. Click on the envelope below to visit the French Factrice blog where you can see other postcard blogs who have posted for Postcard Friday.

January Days

Today has been sunny and about 55 degrees. It has been like this for a couple of weeks. Plants are starting to bloom. Little buds are sprouting from my hydrangea and a friend actually saw a daffodil the other day.

This is the earliest false spring I have ever heard of. I know there is more winter for Portland, but it sure doesn't seem interested in showing up.

Here are some photos I got recently of a very different January in this town. This was on 114th and Fremont in January of 1954. The woman in the photo is Ruth May.





The address and name of the woman is on the back of the photos. I couldn't find the same exact house (as often happens the address numbers have been changed a bit), but I think this is the street view now.



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Thats some crazy snow. Although I am not looking for this kind of weather, a little more winter would be fine for me.