Somehow over a year has slipped by since my last post. Since today is Friday, and I still have many post cards from my collection that I have not yet shared, here's a slightly risqué one from 1907.
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It depicts an man and a woman seated on a bench in the park. The caption records their conversation:
What are you thinking about Tommy?
Same as you.
Oh! you naughty man!
The way they are looking at one another, it is easy to guess what their thoughts may be.
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The back bears the address
Miss Marion Corelli
228 ½ Wash St
Portland
Ore
and is postmarked 25 May 1908 from Astoria, about 95 miles away on the Oregon coast.
The message is signed with the initials "GWG" and reads
How are you feeling
today little lady,
Can't say when I will
be back to the city,
soon I hope.
With some cursory research, I have been unable to identify either Miss Marion Corelli or GWG. A Marion Correlli appears in Portland city directories in the early 1900s, with the intriguing occupation of palmist, but the address is not on Wash or Washington street, so the identification is uncertain.
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