A Tree Grew in Oakland

Office Rules – Spit on the floor.  It’s a dirty job to have to clean cuspidors.  And we expect to buy new carpet every week anyhow. 544

No post mark. No address.

Another of Grandpa’s unused post cards.  The series probably dates from the early 1913-1914 time frame.

Office Rules:  Visitors   Always welcome.  We always give up business where it interferes with pleasure.    544.

No post mark.  Addressed to Miss F. Oakman, 89 Tireman Ave, Detroit, Mich.

No stamp.  Never sent.  Only other words that appear are: Sorry. L.

Could this be the “other” Florence?  Seems to be a neighbor of the Weavers based on the address on Tireman.

U. S. Capital at Night, Washington, D. C.  12089.  The United States Capital, set on a height overlooking the amphitheatre of the Potomac, is on of the largest and stateliest buildings in the world.  It is 751 feet in length and 350 feet in width, covering three and a half acres.  The statue of Freedom on the dome towers 307 feet above the esplanade.  The cornerstone was laid by President Washington in 1793; the central building was finished in 1797; and extensions were first occupied by Congress in 1857.    Published by B. S. Reynolds Co., Washington, D.C.

No post mark.  No address.

“Dear Grandma [Effie Lee Weaver], We are at Washington state camp.  We are leaving tomorrow or Sunday.  Love, Jame [Jmae Weaver]”

Although the post card was never sent, the message area was filled in by a very young Jmae (very youthful script writing and apparently, not fully sure how to spell her difficult name).  The 1 ¢ postage stamp was affixed.  This was probably written in the late 1920s or very early 1930s.

Petrified tree projecting from side, draped with moss, in “Big Spring”, Manistique, Mich.  Auburn Greeting Card Co., Auburn, Ind.

No post mark.  No address.

No clue as to the age of this card — the postage required is not even indicated.

574   Pikes Peak and the auto highway from aeroplane.   Colorado Springs, Colo.   5671-29.  The Auto Road circles and loops its way up the bold and craggy east face of Pikes Peak in a most spectacular fashion climbing over 8000 feet in the space of comparatively few miles.  Sanborn Souvenir Co., Denver, Colo.

No post mark.  No address.

Another unused card from the Weaver 1937 trip to the West Coast.  Grandma and Grandpa would buy post cards of places they had seen since the photographs were better than what they could take themselves.

SM-35.  Crowds on the beach at Santa Monica, California.  IA-H360.  Western Publishing & Novelty Co., Los Angeles, Calif.

A companion post card to yesterday’s posting.   Also an unused post card from the Weaver 1937 West Coast Trip.

842. The bright lights of Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, California.  Illumination by Otto K. Olesen.  1A-H347.   Western Publishing & Novelty Co., Los Angeles, Calif.

Continuing the unused post cards in Grandpa’s collection from the 1937 trip.