Postcards from Aunty Cranky.: U.S.A Illinois

Thursday, August 1, 2013

U.S.A Illinois - 10.4.1962

Top. Jackson Park Beach. Bottom. Children's Zoo, Lincoln Park

Sherman Hotel, Chicago, Illinois.   10.4.1962

Dear Pen,

     I'm on the 18rh floor, two more floors above me. Only 2 more places left before I get to the Hutchinsons.

     Love Nan

Greyhound Bus Terminal, Chicago, Illinois

Completed in March 1953, this is the largest independently owned terminal in the world. This ten million dollar terminal has tunnels entering from Lower Wacker Drive, and buses can enter the heart of the Loop, without traffic congestion. The Arcade has 18 shops.

Sherman Hotel, Chicago, Illinois.   9.4.1962

Dear Tim,

     We had to come up two lots of escalators to reach street level after we got off at this terminal. It's a mighty place.

    Love Nan

Chicago, that wonderful town, wonderful in the sense that it is one of the four largest cities in the world and is growing all of the time. Destroyed by fire in 1971, it was rebuilt within three years. It is the world's greatest railroad center.

Sherman Hotel, Chicago. Illinois. 9.4.1962

Dear Merry,

We arrived here after dark and I'm leaving at 7am tomorrow, so I won't be seeing anything much of Chicago.

Love Nan

The Greyhound Scenicruiser. One Thousand of these luxurious dual-level, air-conditioned buses are operated by the Greyhound Lined between hundreds of cities throughout the United States and Canada.

Sherman Hotel, Chicago. Illinois. 9.4.1962

Dear Nick,

This is a picture of the bus I have been riding in all day today.

love Nan

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About these Postcards.

Meredith, Penelope and Timothy.

My Great Aunt Nancy enjoyed travelling the World during the years from 1957 to 1962. Nancy was my Grandmothers younger sister, she was a Nurse before she met John Watson who was a patient of hers, he thought she was a very cranky Nurse so from then on, into their marriage, he and those living at the 'Homestead' called her 'Cranky' so 'Cranky' she remained at 'Wollogorang', the Sheep Station they lived on.

My family called 'Cranky' by her given name of Nancy, Nan for short but I lived at 'Wollogorang' on and off during my late teens even working there for long periods so she became 'Aunty Cranky' to me.

Cranky and John had one daughter, Susan, my first cousin-once-removed who spent some time traveling with Cranky and some time, at what was called back then, 'Finishing' Schools.

I loved my Aunty Cranky very much, I could spend hours and hours just sitting and listening to her long stories of her travels, she also bought me most of my childhood books which along with these postcards introduced me to the Big Wide World which I have now seen much of myself, but never with her style.

These Postcards were sent to me, my brother Timothy, my sister Meredith and when he was born to my youngest brother Nicholas. When Mum and Dad moved to a smaller home, Mum was going to throw these Postcards out but I, being somewhat of a hoarder, couldn't bear to see that happen so I saved them.

My brothers and sisters can follow this Blog and remember along with me those wonderful postcards that arrived at regular intervals from places some of which we had never heard... Wonderful Memories!

There are 320 Postcards on this Blog, many are obviously missing and who knows how many never arrived, what a prolific Postcard sender our Great Aunt was.

Someone in our family decided that they were a Stamp Collector so almost none of the cards still have stamps on them which is a big pity... I wonder where those stamps are now! In some bin I suspect.

BTW Cranky was far from cranky to me, she was loving if a little strict on how I should behave, she had a desire to turn me into a 'Lady'... which she failed at I'm afraid although I remember a few do's and do nots.

Enjoy, along with me, this view of a world in the late 1950's

P.S. 2015.

I put all these postcards into a large folder, then when my sister Meredith lost everything and her home to savage bush fires in Perth I sent her the Postcards to keep.