back of the Omaha postcard. Red was one of my grandmother's friends from the Navy, nicknamed for her red hair |
18 October 2013
postcards, part 3
This next batch of postcards belonged to my grandmother, Helen Byers. They are from the years she spent in the Navy in the 1940s, which I profiled last year in a Veteran's Day tribute to her. I love to imagine her life then, traveling and seeing things so different from what she saw growing up in the midwest. Rarely a day goes by without me thinking of her or being reminded of her in some way. Her spirit is very much a part of who I am.
Labels:
americana,
chinatown,
empire state building,
grant's tomb,
nebraska,
neon,
neon sign,
new york city,
nostalgia,
omaha,
pepsi,
postcard,
times square,
union station,
vintage postcards,
world war II
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2 comments:
fantastic set
Thanks. I think it is really sweet that she glued them into an album or scrapbook of some kind originally, maybe a book of memories from her Navy years.
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