Postcards for Your Thoughts

     Long before the telephone and long before the automobile people traveled by river and rail.
A century before emails we communicated on postcards through the U.S. Postal system.
The cost: just a penny for your thoughts. With the photographer's pictures on the front side and the
wordsmith's explanations on the back these early forms of instant messaging sometimes took weeks,
maybe even months to arrive. In this archive of postcards we see that the great bandleader
Paul Spor is inviting girls to hear his band at the  fabulous Kin Wa Low's Restaurant and
 Nite Club. Paul was also the Paramount Theater's pit bandleader. Paul and his band would rise
up out of the floor in front of the stage and warm-up the crowd for the main act, like
Duke Ellington. In another postcard we see a note from H. in Bowling Green to
Maumee's Miss Nellie Hatch. Penned in 1908 the communication asks Nellie if
she has ever seen the world's largest concrete bridge in Waterville, Ohio, and if
she's coming to the fair. These postcards are located in the Rare Books division
of the Local History Department of the
Toledo Lucas County Public Library.

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