Mabel Elmblade: June 26, 1928 Congress Park Ill.

Dear Friends,
I hope you had a good week. Mine as usual was on the quiet side. The weather is starting to cool down again. Time for a warmer coat. I might have said this before but it did a little warmer for a bit and cool down again.
Anyway, here is the next letter from Mabel:

As always, for those that find it hard to read, here is what it says:

La Granger June 25. 1928
Dear Howard,
I received your loving letter
Hope your well, I'm the
same. We have rainy
weather here. Your picture
is good. I just long to see
you. But when? Is another
question. I think of you
real often it seems nice
to have a Swedish friend
you have a wonderful
handwriting. So you
keep a hired girl. Well
I'm not going with any
steady. Sure would love
to. Well time will lead
things out. Do you go
to church because I do. We
have a 9 room house
My Dad is 83 years old
my mother is 57. You
would like to know my
age. I'm truthful. So to
tell you, I'm 31 years old

They tell me I don't look
it. Butt love comes-
first. I feel I'm in love
already. Don't forget to
come up and visit me
soon sometime.
Well dearest I must close
           with love&
xxxxxxx  kisses
xxxxxxx
             Mabel
                  E.
          Write soon

Not a lot here. Just saying a few things about her life.
I think she is trying to find someone and is sounding a little desperate.
She is another one that says he has very nice handwriting.
There was a big age difference with her parents. 26 years.And her being 31 years old. I wonder if she was able to find her soul mate.

Here are the last three viewer cards from the set "Scene's from New York":

 The Hall of Fame.

 A Birdseye View of the Skyscraper District.

Brooklyn Bridge, including a Birdseye View of the City of Brooklyn.

The first picture is known today as the Hall of Fame for great people. It is located on the grounds of the  Bronx Community Collage. It was built in 1900 and dedicated in 1901. It looks about the same on the outside. I know this picture is not exactly from today but it is in color.


The second view, I'm not sure what this view would look like today. So here is just one of many kind of views there are:
 

The last view, here is a similar angle of today:
 
It looks a little bit different, wouldn't you say so?

Here is a random picture for you to look at:

Not sure who this is or when it was taken or who was taking the picture.Maybe it was Grandpa taking the picture.

Well that's about all I have to share with you today. Enjoy your weekend and I hope you drop by again real soon for more Fading History.
Till then.
Your friend,
Sandy

Mary Mattingly: June 21, 1928 Springfield, Ky.

Dear Friends,
I hope you had a very nice weekend. Mine was good. I got a few things put away for the winter. I have a number of little statues that I always like to put away for the winter. It will not be long and winter will be knocking on our door.
Anyway, here is the next letter from Mary Mattingly. It's always a bigger challenge trying to figure out her letters.

  As always, for those that find it hard to read here is what it is. I've done my best to figure out exactly what it says:

                    Willisburg Ky
                     June 19 1928
Dear Friend Howard
I received your letter yesterday
and it is so wet and we can't work I
will answer your letter for we will
be busy when it gets dry for a
while my garden looks good if it
would fair up so I could work it
the ground have hardening been dry
enough to work for three night
you know have for be kind we are
with our work it is fair today
and I take it will scurry that till
we can get home work done
which do you like the first town

                .2.
or the country it is nice you don't
use tobacco there an't many in our
country that don't But i think
it is a bad habit don't you
Well I have some pictures made
on that I will get them by
the time you write again and I
will have you one as soon as I get
them I'm sure you are tired waiting But
I had some taken once and they
weren't any good an I have had them
taken again I think they will be good
this time I know so far you are
tired looking for a picture an I don't
blame you but I can't help it I would have
sent it long go if I had had one so I will
close for this time looking to hear from you
again soon.

From your Friend
Mary Mattingly


I did my best to figure out what she meant but I know I did got a lot of it wrong. Maybe you can do a better job of figuring it out.
She is still promising to send a picture of herself.
  She must live in Willisburg but it gets postmarked in Springfield.

Here are two more viewer cards from the "Scene's from New York":

 Interior of Madison Square Garden at Night.

Madison Square at Night.

The picture of the interior of Madison Square Garden is from the second version of it. The one we know today is the third version of it.
Here is what Wikipedia had to say about it:
 Madison Square Garden was an indoor arena in New York City, the second by that name, and the second to be located at 26th Street and Madison Avenue in Manhattan. Built in 1890 at the cost of a half-million dollars and closing in 1925, the arena hosted numerous events, including boxing matches, orchestral performances, light operas and romantic comedies, the annual French Ball, both the Barnum and the Ringling circuses, and the Democratic National Convention in 1924, which nominated John W. Davis after 103 ballots. The 1890 version replaced the first Madison Square Garden, and was itself replaced by the third Madison Square Garden (which was the first to be located away from Madison Square).

And as for Madison Square this is what Wikipedia has to say about that:
 Madison Square is a public square formed by the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Broadway at 23rd Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The square was named for James Madison, fourth President of the United States. The focus of the square is Madison Square Park, a 6.2-acre (2.5-hectare) public park, which is bounded on the east by Madison Avenue (which starts at the park's southeast corner at 23rd Street); on the south by 23rd Street; on the north by 26th Street; and on the west by Fifth Avenue and Broadway as they cross.

The park and the square are at the northern (uptown) end of the Flatiron Districtneighborhood of Manhattan. The neighborhood to the north and west of the park isNoMad ("NOrth of MADison Square Park") and to the north and east is Rose Hill.

Here is a random picture for you to look at:

No idea when this was taken or who they are. 

Well that's about all I have to share with you today.

I hope you will come back soon for more Fading History.

Till then.

Your friend,

Sandy

Helen Balusik: June 21, 1928 Evanston, Ill.

Dear Friends,
It is now starting to feel a little bit more like fall. It's time to start wearing warmer coats when you go outside. The trees are becoming bare getting ready for winter. The question is, are you ready for the changes coming our way. Well, at least if you live in the kind of area like I do.
Anyway, here is the next letter from Helen:

As always, for those that find it hard to read, here is what it says:

                     Wednesday 4 P:M.
                       Evanston, Ill.
Dearest Howard:-
   Yours came today&
surely was pleased to
hear from you.
Speaking of rain, yes
we have plenty of it
here this week the sun
hasn't been out any
of the time.
So you have traded
your car in for a coupe
is that it? Well, what
kind of a Model - Ford?
have you seen the New
Fords that are out? I
think they are the cutest
cars, don't you? Now, I
don't believe you have
to be looking for a

            2
chicken I bet you have
all kinds of them there
only if you wanted too
(Ha Ha) I know the boys
alright--
Oh well lets forget about
that and talk of some
thing different.
Last nite a girl friend of
mine & myself walked
to the lake. It was a
wonderful evening. Believe
me I was wishing you
were along. "Don't you
believe it."
Tonite we have a big
crowd coming in for
dinner usually Wednesday
& Sundays we have
the most people

          3
to wait on. Oh well, I just
take things with a smile
wouldn't you. That's the
only way a person can
get along & be happy.
Anna & Frank N. are
leaving Saturday morning
by car. Have to go & see
them before they leave
but I always hate
to say good bye's don't
you? But she's coming
to see me out at home
so that will make it
nice.
Well Howard, I suppose
you will soon be
pitching hay, won't you?
I know what that is
and how I love it-

Seems I haven't anything
new to tell you. I know
we'll have plenty to talk
about when we see
each other if we don't
fight (Ha Ha)
Well Howard, hope I
hear from you again
and I will have to
close my conversation
till next time.
    I remain your
          friend
             Helen
P.S. come again
with your nice
letters-
anytime.

It sounds like the weather at that time was just as rainy in Ill. as it was up north.
I think I've shown you a picture of Grandpa's car and if it is the same one, my dad has it in his garage. It needs a little work but as of right now, everything is still original on it.
I know I've shown you a couple of pictures of wagons piled high with hay.
As for chickens, my grandparents always had them. Grandma sold eggs also.

Here are two more cards from the "Scene's from New York" set:

 The Custom House.

Bartholdi's Statue.

This is what I found on the Custom House on Wikipedia:
 The Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House is a building in New York City built in 1902–07 by the federal government, to house the duty collection operations for the Port of New York. It is located at 1 Bowling Green, near the southern tip of Manhattan, roughly on the same spot as Fort Amsterdam, the original center of the settlement of New Amsterdam. The building is now the home of the George Gustav Heye Center of the National Museum of the American Indian, as well as the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York; since 2012, it is also the home to the National Archives at New York City.
It looks about the same today as it did back then.
As for what we know today as the Statue of Liberty, this is what I found a little bit about it's beginning.
It was unveiled in Oct 1886. So that would be about 130 years ago this month.
It was originally designed for the Suez Canal in Egypt. America was second choice by the designer.
It took American's 15 years to except it. Suffragettes protested the unveiling because women had no liberty to vote. Originally it was suppose to be a light house.
 
It has not changed much over the years.

Here is a random picture for you to look at.

I wonder if this is some the hay she was talking about.

Well that's about all I have to share with you today.
I hope you have a great weekend.
Don't forget to drop by again real soon for more Fading History.
Till then.
Your friend,
Sandy

Sigrid Niemela: June 18, 1928 Mt. Iron, Minn.

Dear Friends,
I hope this post finds you all well. If you live out East, I hope you are safe and that the hurricane did not do to much damage at you place. I know a number people are very devastated by the damage and loss of life. The power of nature is something we can not fight.
Anyway, here is the next letter from Sigrid:

  As always, for those that find it hard to read, here is what it says:

               Mt. Iron, Minn
                 June 18, 1928
Dear Howard,
Again I've neglected ans-
wering your letter, but
you see my sister came
over and I couldn't
find any such time
so I could be alone, you
see no one but we
know of this corres-
pondence, unless you've
told your friends etc.
But this morning I happened
to get up early & as she's
still sleeping I tho't
I'll write a little, to
let you know I'm still
alive at least.
I'm so disgusted with

this part of the world
now. It's always rain-
ing, not a blessed
nice day or evening
now that it started.
How are your crops
coming up? Our pot-
otoes were up nice &
then "Jack Frost" nipped
them. I didn't plant
much of anything this
year, probably too lazy.
I was to the country
some 31 miles from here,
yesterday. They had some
church doings & meetings
there but I just bummed
around & saw some
of my old friends there.
Do you believe that
13th days are unlucky?
I never did put much

           2.
thought to it, but last
week it happened that
a car tipped right
over, by out house. No-
body got hurt, because
they were going so slow
but there's a pretty sharp
curve so it just happened
& they were our neighbors
too.
Have you done any-
thing to the house now?
I guess you don't get much
time in summer to
carpenter. I think that
any kind of trees around
it would be nice,
without waiting for a

wife to tell. Get some
that grow easy and
quick. We haven't
hardly any trees in
the yard, but it
certainly isn't my
fault.
This must be getting
rather monotonous al-
ready, so I'll quietly
slip out. No extra special
news now anyway.
You write soon
anyway if you possibly
have time. I wish
I could hear your
records oh boy! I bet
I'd be always winding
at that "funny-graph".
               as Ever
                   Sigrid

It sounds like it was a rainy time around where she lived. It kind of sounds like the kind of weather we have had around here this year.
I wonder what kind of a car the neighbor had that it tipped over going around a curve at a very slow speed. That's what happens when you go around a curve on the 13th.
It kind of sounds like Grandpa was planting some trees around the house.
She sounds a little down to me. I wonder if she ever told her sister about writing to Grandpa or if it remained a secret.
I wonder which record was Grandpa's favorite at the time.

Here are two more viewer cards from the "Scene's from New York" set:

 East River Bridge.

   Steam Yachts and Ferry Boats, New York Harbor.

Since I have never been to New York I can only show you a picture a found on the internet that might show a similar thing or area.
Here is the what I think is the same bridge:

 
A different angle, but I think the same.


I couldn't find the right kind of an angle, so I guess this must do.

Here is a random picture fro you to look at:

The reason I picked this picture is because of her story about the car that tipped over. This truck did something like that too. I remember my dad telling about what happened but right now I can't remember the details.

Well that's all I have to share with you today.
I hope you have a good week and come back soon for more Fading History.
Till then.
Your friend,
Sandy