Your June 24th issue brought mentioned “Postcard show opened Saturday” and I thought it was interesting because post cards are really “visible footprints of the past” and some historic events.
Having some old portrait views of silent screen movie stars I thought nothing until a young nurse was changing my wrist bandage from a cancer skin-graft, when suddenly she froze while viewing my collection of them. She looked at me and pointed at a male actor, and asked if I knew him. “Yes,” I said, and told her I had personally met … Charlie Chaplin back in 1933 at the Wink, Texas, airport due to bad dust storm that forced (his) airplane to land. I am now 81 years old and fighting cancer.
Postcards carry secrets few may ever know. I have one of Kent High School from 1916 and was shocked one day when an electrician saw it and said, “That student at the edge happens to be my own grandfather,” but he did not elaborate. We never see present day school class photo post cards each year, but there are other moments that prove them to be real footprints in our past.
Leon Thompson
Kent
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