Indian Priest, Trinidad, B.W.I.

This vintage postcard from my grandparents' collection is a Tichnor Brothers, Inc. Postcard. It was published by De Lima & Co., Ltd., Port of Spain, Trinidad, B.W.I.

My maternal grandparents and their family immigrated to the United States from Brazil in July of 1952.  They traveled on the ocean liner The S.S. Brazil.  Trinidad was one of the ports of call on their ocean voyage.  The photo below was taken during their port of call in Trinidad.



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Montauk Lighthouse – Historical Long Island, New York

This is a Dextone vintage postcard showing the Montauk Lighthouse on Long Island, New York.

Transcription from back of postcard:

HISTORICAL LONG ISLAND, MONTAUK LIGHTHOUSE:

George Washington signed the bill authorizing construction in 1795. Copy of this bill is filed in the Town Clerk's Office in East Hampton. Surveys for the lighthouse site were begun in 1792. The tower was built in 1796. The original oil beacon for the Lighthouse was donated by the French Government.

Kodachrome by Louis Dormand

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Salt Lake City and Wasatch Mountains from Airplane, Looking East

This is a 1939 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. It shows Salt Lake City and the Wasatch Mountains looking east from inside an airplane. Hal Rumel is named as the photographer on the postcard.

Transcription from back of postcard:

Salt Lake City, the Capital of Utah, was founded in 1847 by Brigham Young and a company of "Mormon" pioneers. From a barren waste, this city has become one of the most beautiful in America.

Located in the heart of the intermountain region, it is referred to as the "Cross Roads of the West," the "Center of Scenic America."

If you look closely, you can see the Salt Lake Temple in the postcard. It's on the left side. Do you see it? For those unfamiliar with the Salt Lake Temple, here's a photo of this beautiful temple. It may help you to locate it in the postcard.


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Main Street at Night, Salt Lake City, Utah

This is a 1940 Curt Teich "C.T. Art-Colortone" vintage postcard from my grandparents' collection. It was published by the Deseret Book Company in Salt Lake City, Utah. This postcard shows Main Street in Salt Lake City, Utah. It's interesting to see how it looked back in 1940.

Transcription from back of postcard:

East Temple Street (Salt Lake City's Main Street) like all of Salt Lake's standard streets is 132 ft. wide. These wide, straight streets are the admiration of all who see them. They afford ample room for parking on both sides leaving plenty of room for traffic without fear of congestion.

Main Street at night is almost as light as day.

My grandparents, Debs and Willis Webster, collected quite a few postcards while they were in Utah, which I will be sharing in future posts. Their family joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Brazil. When they immigrated to the United States in 1952, they traveled by car across the country after arriving in New York. Their final destination was Southern California. The family stopped in Utah to see the sights there.

One of the places they visited while they were in Utah was Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City is the headquarters for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a worldwide church consisting of approximately 15,000,000 members. As recent converts to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, my grandparents' visit to Salt Lake City was very special to them.

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The Large Cage, Bird Park, Santa Catalina, California

This is a 1939 Curt Teich, "C.T. Art-Colortone" vintage postcard from my grandparents' collection. It was published by the Western Publishing & Novelty Company of Los Angeles, California.

It shows the large cage at the Bird Park on Santa Catalina Island.

Santa Catalina Island, often referred to as Catalina Island, or simply Catalina, is about 22 miles off the coast of Southern California.  The Catalina Chamber of Commerce has an official website.  If you’d like to check it out, here’s the link.

According to an article in the The Catalina Islander, May 11, 2001, found online at Google News, the Bird Park was established in 1929 and covered eight acres of land.  It had over 500 cages and housed over 8,000 rare and exotic birds.

The Bird Park was a very popular attraction on Catalina Island for over thirty-five years.  During World War II, the Park was scaled back and never regained it’s prewar vitality.  It closed in 1966.

Transcription from back of postcard:

In this giant cage, 110 feet in diameter, 90 feet in height, are several hundred rare and beautiful birds, collected from all over the world – African Crowned Crane, golden and silver Pheasants, Peacocks, Australian Swans, Mandarin Duck, Cockatoos, Macaws, and many other interesting birds.

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Arroyo Seco, Colorado Street Bridge, Pasadena, California

This is a 1931 Curt Teich "C.T. Art-Colortone" vintage postcard published by the Western Publishing & Novelty Company of Los Angeles, California. It shows the Colorado Street Bridge in Pasadena, California.

The bridge was built in 1913 and turned 100 years old in December of 2013. To learn more about this historic bridge, and to see some amazing historic photos, including an "electric car" crossing the bridge in 1930, click on the link below.

Colorado Street Bridge at 100: The Birth of a Pasadena Landmark

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Av. São João – São Paulo, Brasil

This is a picture postcard showing Avenida São João in São Paulo, Brasil. It was written to my mom. I've blurred the names of my mom and her cousin for privacy reasons.

The postcard is dated September 29, but unfortunately, there isn't a year included in the date. I know it was written after July of 1952, because that's when my mom and her family emigrated from Brazil to the United States. I've written about their immigration story in my genealogy blog, Jana's Genealogy and Family History Blog.

The family traveled by ship, arrived in New York, bought a car and some camping equipment, and traveled across the United States toward their final destination in Southern California. Along the way, they took pictures and bought postcards. If you'd like to read about their trip, click HERE.

Transcription from back of postcard:

September, 29

Hi,

This picture is to help you to do not forget me, and within a few days I'll write you a very big letter. Hoping you are all right. I close it with love to all of you,

from your cousin

What a sweet postcard!

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