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Main Street at Night

Description:

Looking west on Main Street from Broadway on a rainy night. While the postcard was written in 1958, the image is from 1950 as determined by the advertising for The Big Lift showing at the Criterion Theater.

Transcript:

New Years nite

Dear Bell,

Happy New year

I finish working to-morrow & will write a letter. I have so much work to catch up on. Sorry you & N. D are under the weather. Hope you are better now. Wanda's family home now. Take care. Love ya Thelma

Recipient:

Mrs N. D. Wade

Box 278

Talihina,

Oklahoma.

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