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April 23, 2014 by tomdalzell

Gabby’s 1964 Worlds Fair Postcard Collection

Gabby sent my friend his collection of 1964 Worlds Fair postcards.  By Gabby standards, it was a small collection.

WF 1 WF 2 WF 3 WF 4 WF 5 WF 6 WF 7 WF 8 WF 9 QG001173 WF 11 WF 12 WF 13 WF 14 WF 15 WF 16 WF 17 1964 World's Fair Ford Exhibit 1965 MustangI took the postcards with me recently to Dayton, Ohio, to show my friend Criswell.  He remembered our trip to New York in 1965 very well.  He carried his extra cash in his shoe.  I carried mine in a money belt under my shirt.  We wore coats and ties.  We loved the fresh pineapple from Hawaii.  The pineapple wasn’t anything like what we knew from cans.  Criswell still had the map from our visit to the Worlds Fair.

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I remember happy times with the map in the weeks before we went, planning what we would see.

As for my friend, well, you probably can guess what he said about Gabby’s postcard collection.

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