PICTURES TELL HOW TIMES
CHANGE
February 14, 1978
PIX #1 thru #6
- Postcards of earlier times.
My oh my, how
times have changed...I don't mean in the last few years. There were
the flapper days...the hazz age...rock and roll...hard rock, etc. I
mean times have changed since the turn of the century.
The pictures with
this story will prove it.
Having the access
to a postcard collection, the property of Charles McPherson Fostoria,
I started throught it to find those endearing sentimental gems which
young lovers exchanged at valentine time more than 50 years ago.
In minuted I had
selected more than I could use...but I was so fascinated with the variety,
for every special day. There were appropriate ones for Halloween...Thanksgiving...Christmas...New
Years...Easter...Birthdays...Leap Year...you name the situation and
they had an appropriate card. There were scores of gems.
You older readers
will understand my descriptive terms when I say that some of the cards
were real to the touch...raised...embossed...velvety...glittery. Beautiful
colors. The flowers, birds, everything looked 3-D and real.
Many of the postcards
of that era were produced in Germany. They had developed processes for
making them and knew how to make the brilliant, beautiful colors that
adorned them.
Perhaps some of
the younger readers of this column have seen the type of cards I have
described...having stumbled across them among your parents or grandparents
"special things" packed away in a box in the attic. If you haven't you
have missed a treat out of the past...a time when (in my opinion) life
was slower, easier, more beautiful.
At this point
as I write, I do not know how many of the cards I picked will be suitable
for reproduction, with the accepted standards of this newspaper. Whichever
ones are used, perhaps you can use your imagination and visualize the
beauty of each one...the subject...the color...because I do know they
cannot reproduce them like they actually are.
Do you agree times
have changed?
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