Postcards from Aunty Cranky.: Utah

Saturday, August 17, 2013

U.S.A. Salt Lake City, Utah - 15.6.62

Castle Gate, Utah

This unusual formation near Price, Utah looks as if nature had opened the gate to allow U.S. Highway 50-6 and the Denver Rio Grande Railroad to pass through. The sheer cliffs tower hundreds of feet above the highway.

Newhouse Hotel, Salt Lake City, Utah - 15.6.62

To. Penelope Rodd,

with love Nan

Newhouse Hotel, Salt Lake City, Utah - 15.6.62

To. Timothy Rodd,

love, Nan

Bryce Canyon, Utah

Sunset Point

Bryce Canyon in Southern Utah includes 36,000 acres of the most colourful rocks, shaped by erosion into grotesque forms.

Colour photo by Hal Rumel

Newhouse Hotel, Salt Lake City, Utah - 15.6.62

To. Meredith Rodd,

love, Nan

Newhouse Hotel, Salt Lake City, Utah - 15.6.62

To. Nicolas Rodd,

love from Nan.

Thursday, August 1, 2013

U.S.A. - Utah - May 1962

Sunset at Black Rock. Great Salt Lake. Utah.

Six times as salty as the ocean, the Great Salt Lake is 75 miles long, fifty miles wide, has a desolute beauty all it's own.

To. Penelope Rodd.

With love, Nan

Salt Lake City, Utah.

To. Timothy Rodd.

With love, Nan

Swimmers in Great Salt Lake - Utah.

This world-famous attraction is 35 miles in average width and approx. 75 miles in average length varying from 20 to 50 feet in depth. The Great Salt Lake is second only to the Dead Sea as the saltiest body of water on earth - so dense that it buoys a human body on it's surface making it impossible to sink.

To. Meredith Rodd

With love, Nan

Adam Trujillo famous Indian Dancer.

To. Nicholas Rodd

With love, Nan

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.