Nostalgia, Part II

I know you remember collecting these as a kid.

Six Garbage Pail Kids cards from the 9th series, circa 1987.

Found in "Tell Me Why" by Arkady Leokum. Published by Grosset and Dunlap, 1974.

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Family Circle

Note. I offer no suggestions on the context.

Our Family Circle at Dinner time

Memorial of the World Fair

Favorite Radio Program

Habit - Friend or enemy

Disadvantages of owning pet

There is a bit of writing on the back, but it appears to be parts of a larger bit of writing.

Found in "Hardy Boys - What Happened at Midnight" by Franklin W. Dixon. Published by Grosset and Dunlap, 1931.

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Looking For A Good Time

Letter, dated April 18, 1934 from the Skip, Step and Happiana radio show of WGY, Schenectady.

Dear Buddy,

Your letter to WGY was turned over to us. In reply will say our proposition is as follows. You furnish the hall.

We furnish you with and pay for ten days radio announcements over the air. We furnish you with window cards, handbills and even your tickets. We furnish transportation for six and pay all of our own expenses. We present one hour and half show both afternoon and evening.

We like to run matinees for school children and those people who can not come in the evening. The matinee prices are 15 cents for children and 25 cents for adults. The evening prices would be 25 cents for children and the adult price would have to be determined according to the seating capacity of your auditorium. Under 500 seats, 40 cents, above 500, 35 cents.

Should you care to run a dance in conjunction with the evening show the price is 50 cents under 500 people and 40 cents over 500. You furnish the orchestra.

You take 25% of the gross receipts including both matinee and evening shows. If you have $50 advance sale, you take 40%; if you sell $100 worth of tickets in advance you take 40% providing you have a dance. Without the dance you take 35%. We know what our drawing power is.

Be very glad to give you a date the third week in May. Would like to hear from you immediately.

Sincerely yours,

Skip

Skip, Step and Happiana

Found in "Jimmy Dale and the Phantom Clue" by Frank L. Packard. Published by Novel Selections, Inc., copyright of 1922, but I believe this was printed later.

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Montezuma

Photo, "Montezuma" written on the front.

Reverse reads "Bird's eye view of Montezuma."

Found in "Open Land" by B.M. Bower. Published by Triangle, 1945.

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Antiquarian giveaway winner

This week's winner was moonrat, who entered right here on Forgotten Bookmarks. If you see this, send me an email: fb@forgottenbookmarks.com I'll try and get in touch with you in the meantime. See you all next week!

Friday Giveaway: 11 Antiquarian Books - contest closed

This week's giveaway features eleven antiquarian books on a variety of subjects; there's a bit of leather, a bit of gilt, lots of illustrations and plenty of dusty pages. Sounds like a recipe for good giveaway.

Contest closed, winner announced shortly.




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Contents Unknown

Unopened envelope, it looks like there's a card in there. No writing, no stamps, no postmarks.

Found in "The Official Alaska Cook Book - A Collector's Edition" by Sue Phelps. Published by Southeast Alaska Empire, 1969.

So, should I open it? Technically, it's not mail.

EDIT: I opened it. Here's what I found:

A thank-you card, looks like it was handmade as the illustrations are unevenly cut and pasted down.

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Cher Papa Revisited

You may remember an experiment I tried a while back, pairing a forgotten bookmark with a short piece of fiction. I thought it would be fun to try again. I hope to post a few of these in the coming days. The first piece is by Jessica Fortunato. She chose to write about this find. I'll re-post the images, story to follow.

Hollie perched upon the worn window seat. It had rained for days, and reading was all there was to do. Reading and missing her Papa. He had sent her to England to live with her Grand-mère three years earlier after her Mother’s sudden passing. To lose one parent is painful. To lose two filled Hollie with a feeling of longing that words cold not describe. Words, her Grand-mère had always told her, were the key to life itself. Hollie had not received a letter from her Papa in over a year. She begged, pleaded with her Grand-mère, just allow her to write him once, yet she was always denied. As she stared at the rain, she decided tonight would be the night. She would sneak into the study and find an address.

It seemed to take ages for Grand-mère to turn out her light, and even then, Hollie allowed plenty of time for her to fall asleep. To pass the hours Hollie finished reading the new book she had received as a gift the month before on her 12th birthday. Le Petit Prince was a funny sort of story. For such a Little Prince, he knew much more of the world than Hollie did. The author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry could weave words in such a way that her heart beat faster with each page, and as she finished the story, she found herself weeping in the night while feeling wrapped in love.

Finally, she felt it was safe enough to go to the study. There she retrieved stationary and tried to write. All the feelings she had, all the things she wanted to do, the knowledge she’d learned. Her hand froze over the paper, and once more, she began to weep. With blurred vision, she searched through her Grandmother’s papers, until finally she found it. Her Father’s name and an address Père Lachaise, Paris France was scrawled on a scrap of paper. She copied the address, it was incomplete but she knew it would get to her Father.

After thinking all night, Hollie had decided exactly what she was to send. She marched with the confidence of a girl much her senior to the post office down the street. There she paid to have the paper wrapped package sent to her Father Albert, at the address she’d found. The young man took her money, and tossed the package into the bin for delivery. Hollie skipped happily home.

The kindly old woman working at the Laposte in France picked up the small package and read the address. This would be undeliverable she thought shaking her head. For Père Lachaise was a Cemetery, everyone knew that. With no return address, the package sat on her desk for weeks, until her curiosity overwhelmed her and she opened the wrappings to reveal a book.

She opened the cover to reveal the inscription, and tears welled up in her eyes.

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Souvenir

100 mark note from Germany, dated 1920. "Souvenir" is written on both sides.

Found in "Spaßige Rimels - Plattdeutsche Humoristische Gedichte" by Heinrich Jürs. Published by G. Kramer Verlag, 1894.

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No Goats, No Glory

Three goat sketches.

Found in the December 1955 issue of "Wee Wisdom."

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