This Is The Place Monument – Salt Lake City, Utah

My grandparents must have purchased this photo postcard when they visited Utah on their way to California in the summer of 1952. It was found in my grandpa's 1952 scrapbook that had photos and postcards from their immigration trip from Brazil to the United States.

This postcard shows the This Is The Place Monument which is located at This Is The Place Heritage Park in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The monument was dedicated in 1947, one hundred years after the first Mormon pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley.

My grandparents bought six different postcards depicting this monument. I'll be sharing the rest of these postcards in future posts.

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Early Home of Joseph Smith, Near Palmyra, New York

This is a 1937 "C.T. Art-Colortone" vintage postcard made by Curt Teich & Co., Inc. of Chicago, Illinois. It shows the Early Home of Joseph Smith, Near Palmyra, New York.

My maternal grandparents and their family emigrated from Brazil to the United States in July of 1952. They traveled on the ocean liner, S. S. Brazil. After they arrived in New York, they bought a car and some camping equipment and traveled across the country to their final destination in Southern California. They had joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Brazil, so they included some LDS historical sites as they traveled to California. One of the places they stopped was the early home of Joseph Smith near Palmyra, New York.

Not only did the Webster family purchase this special postcard, they also took a picture of themselves in front of this historic home. I don't see my grandpa in this photo. He must have been the one taking the picture.



Here's a zoomed in view of the photo above.



Description from back of postcard:

Joseph Smith's Home, near Palmyra, New York. In addition to being near the Sacred Grove, the house includes such points of interest as the Prophet's Bedroom, a relic room and the room in which part of the Book of Mormon plates were translated. Here Joseph spent his youth.

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Jones Beach – Long Island, New York

This is a "Plastichrome" vintage postcard made by the Tomlin Art Company of Northport, Long Island, New York. It shows Jones Beach in Long Island, New York.

The postcard was sent to my grandfather, Debs Warren Webster, by Helen Edwards. I don't who Helen Edwards is and how she knew my grandfather. The year it was sent isn't very easy to see because of the placement of the postmark. I think it says 1953.

Written message on postcard:

My dear Folks: What has become of you all??? So long "no hear" Maybe I owe you a line; We are on the rush so much don't seem to be able to keep track of correspondence as I would like to. Pearl Nash said she had not heard from you, either. Let us hear, etc. & will write.

Love from Ray & Me, as ever

Helen Edwards

#1 Jetmore Place

Massapequa, L.I., N.Y.

I really like how my grandfather wrote "answered" on the postcard.

Description on back of Postcard:

Jones Beach, one of the state parks under the jurisdiction of the Long Island State Park Commission, is located near Wantagh on Long Island's South Shore, 33 miles from New York City. It is easily reached by car through direct connection with the Long Island parkways and by train and bus. Major attractions are surf, pool and bay bathing, dining, out-door dancing, the boardwalk, deck games, pitch-putt golf and playgrounds.

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Great Salt Lake Cut-Off at Sunset, Great Salt Lake, Utah

This is a 1936 genuine Curt Teich "C.T. Art-Colortone" vintage postcard from my maternal grandparents' collection. It was published by the Deseret Book Company of Salt Lake City, Utah.

I think it's a very pretty postcard. It shows the Salt Lake Cutoff at sunset.

I did a little research online about this Cutoff and found some interesting information from the following websites: Wikipedia - Lucin Cutoff, Tresslewood - Lucin Cutoff Railroad Trestle, and History Utah to Go - The Lucin Cutoff. I learned that the railroad track across the Great Salt Lake was built by the Southern Pacific Company in the early 1900s. It was built to avoid the railway through Promontory Summit. Doing so cut off 44 miles of travel. The Cutoff begins near Ogden, Utah and ends at Lucin, Utah. In the 1950s the wooden tressles were replaced with a parallel causeway.

Transcription from back of postcard:

Fifteen miles west of Ogden, Utah, you actually "go to sea by rail" over the famous cut-off across Great Salt Lake. Affording an unique view of this great inland sea.

This cut-off extends west 102.9 miles across the northern arms of Great Salt Lake to Lucin. it was opened March 8, 1904, having cost $4,500,000 and two years of effort.

Seventy-two miles of the way the rails are laid on land and for thirty miles on rock fills and heavy trestle work.

The Great Salt Lake is more salty than any other body of water except the Dead Sea of Palestine.

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I Should Be Home Soon

This is the third Las Vegas vintage postcard that I've shared here on this blog. The manufacturer of this postcard is Plastichrome by Colourpicture Publishers, Inc. of Boston, Massachusetts. It was published by the Las Vegas News Agency in Las Vegas, Nevada.

My maternal grandparents must have purchased this postcard on their way from Utah to California in 1952.

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