Wednesday, March 21, 2012

The Wednesday Post


Spam: The Early Years


September, 1964




May, 1965


September, 1965



September, 1966


5 comments:

mrs.5000 said...

I am, somewhat embarrassingly, mesmerized by the strikingly consistent (yet, not even in the second two postcards, identical) flying letters in the typed addresses, as well as the strikingly consistent (yet, not even in the first two postcards, identical) jaunty angle of the stamps.

Michael5000 said...

Yes! Detective novels of a certain age talk about the recognizable 'handwriting' of different typists, and I always looked askance at that. But you can totally tell that the Pineview Clinic had a stable clerical staff during the mid-60s -- Ralph Hiebel's secretary has a distinct touch on the keys and even the stamps.

lamanyana said...

Looks like the Montgomery post office got a new cancellation machine in 1966.

Michael5000 said...

The typewriter was set on single-space for the last one...

sister jen said...

Brilliant...