Bill Horseback Riding

Bill Horseback Riding

In a couple of letters my dad mentions loving to go horseback riding … here is an early photo of him doing just that.  Too bad the horse’s nose is cut off … but those were the days when you could not immediately see your photo on either your phone screen or the back of your camera display … you had to wait days, weeks or even months until your roll of 12 or 24 or 36 photos was all exposed and you took it in to the drug store to be developed and then finally got to see what you captured.

Frank: November 6, 1940

Frank: November 6, 1940 - Page 1
Love the election comments! The presidential election was held on November 5, 1940. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Democratic candidate, won 449 electoral votes; Wendell L. Willkie, the Republican candidate, won 82; Norman Thomas, the Socialist, and Roger W. Babson, the Prohibition, candidates won no electoral votes. FDR was elected to his third term as US President … the only man to ever do so.
Frank: November 6, 1940 - Page 2
He wants a birthday list for the family … ironically his birthday was coming up on the 30th of November. Love his P.S. … Bill Huntley is going to drop in … Don’t worry until Thanksgiving … Was she worried? Why, I wonder?
Frank: November 6, 1940 - Harry
Why did Bernice still have the page addressed to Harry?
Frank: November 6, 1940 - Warren
Why did Bernice still have the page addressed to Warren?
Frank: November 6, 1940 - Back
Frank was using someone else’s envelope … I can’t quite tell whose.

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