Postcards from Coney Island 1937

Grandma in Coney Island at 17 years old (the girl on the left)

Table Lotto Service?

 

Found amongst my grandma's photos.  I'm not sure what year this is from (seeing as how it was for a Sonny Dunham performance I'm going to guess the 1940's/50s) but the cover charge cracks me up.  I wish some of the places I go had covers like that!  I also find it weird that someone would need to play their lottery number while out to dinner, but when inspiration strikes...unless it's a reference to a song request? 

Travels with Grandma

Cleaning out the house for my recent move, I found tons of random things that my grandmother saved.  Among them, I found one of her old travel journals.  She never really understood the concept of a travel journal, so a lot of the comments are trivial things like what she had for breakfast or what she thought about other people she was with (ever the sassy one, my grandma), but I still find them fun to browse through.  She ends every entry with what she had to drink for the night and where, which is perhaps where I get my love of nightlife!

I also found these random stickers from various Polish hotels.  Holy 1970's Batman! 

Vintage Vault- Chesterfield Shipment

From 1944 RCA pamphlet 

Sailing with the Suggestion Armada

I recently found this in my grandma's old RCA magazine/pamphlet and thought it was weird.  I couldn't find any information on it other than that it's from 1944.  "The Suggestion Armada" sounds more like an Improv group or an innuendo than an army thing.  Oh the innocence of the 40's

Vintage Vault- Postcards from Japan

Kyoto, 1946.  Photo by my grandfather