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Approaching Coopers
Coopers in West Virginia, near Bramwell, is a town accessed by a narrow road under a large double track railroad trestle.
Flying to Nassau
Post card is a Plastichrome by Colourpicture Publishers, Inc. Boston 15, Mass., U.S.A.
This is a DC-3 owned by Mackey Airlines, headquartered at Broward International Airport in Fort Lauderdale FL, flew direct to Nassau from Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, St. Petersburg, and Tampa. It was acquired by Eastern Airlines in 1967.
Auto Kid
1920s postcard. Artwork by E. Weaver (no bio available), but Sherry Arent Cawley, in Berrien County, author of one of the Postcard History Series put out by Arcadia Publishing, describes the artist as “…a very prolific American postcard artist at the turn of the century through the 1930s. His designs, in sets of 8 to 32 are whimsical and humorous with many drawn in a simplified Art Nouveau style.”
The card was mailed from Cloverdale VA on October 25, 1926, to an address in Willis VA.
Airtext Child’s Flight Bag
These things pop up in unlikely places, like at an estate sale. This is a vintage Piedmont child’s souvenir candy travel bag. It was sold at the Piedmont store, filled with candy to keep the little nipper occupied during the flight. It is 7″ wide, 3.5″ deep and about 4″ high (just the bag, not the straps). It has a metal zipper. Manufactured by Airline Textiles Manufacturing Co. of Des Moines IA. The company, apparently, is still in business.
Uncle Bob's Pix 