Asheville Post Card Company issue called a “Pennant Landscape”
The “Galax, VA.” is an overprint for a standard card.
It was mailed in 1943, when Galax had half its current population. It’s hard to read the writing, but I did find Sgt. Marrion W(oodward) Fisher. Camp Santa Anita was a dog racing park in Arcadia CA that had been taken over by the Army for ordnance training. Sgt. Fisher was born in 1920 in Bath VA. He died in 2011 in Covington VA.
I think the signature on the card is “James”
Mary Jayne’s Railroad Specialties…and an airline? This is the lowest inventory number I have of the airline series that MJRS issued between the mid 80s or so through to the late 90s. The company was owned by Mary Jayne and John Z. Rowe of Covington VA. The MJRS company was incorporated, though, in North Miami Beach FL in 1973 and went inactive in 1999. Mary Jayne died in 2015 but her obituary doesn’t mention MJRS. It only states that she and her husband operated a land survey company. There’s an article in a railfan mag on the web on MJRS, but it’s stuck behind a $43 paywall. Passed on that. There is no inventory list of these cards on the web, as far as I know. This is MJ354 and my highest number is MJ1297, but this isn’t a continuous sequence. There are many holes in the numbering. Either I just don’t have all the cards (likely) or these cards, which changed publisher at least once, were part of a larger print run that included other subjects. This one was printed by Alleghany Publishers, Covington, VA. I hope the pinkish hue was intentional.
The cards I have cover an amazing number of airlines and many, many aircraft. This group was a real find.
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