Pieces of the Past: Poscard Friendship Friday

Friday, September 16, 2011

Poscard Friendship Friday

I found this old postcard on line - this is the city park in Chillicothe, Ills. (strange abbreviation) way back in 1909. Chilli's main business district is two blocks long with stores on each side along Second Street - it has been that way forever. Then the full block to the north on the left side of the street was the park with a sidewalk going around it and one diagonally through the middle. The Rock Island tracks were to the west and the depot across from the northwest corner of the park. I can remember carnivals being held there when I was young. Carnivals were never my favorite thing - the merry-go-round, tiltawhirl and very mild rides were all I wanted to take. Heaven forbid I would go on a ride that turned you upside down. I have also never been on a roller coaster and have no desire to do so.

Lacon is a town about ten miles north of Chillicothe. I hope you all have a Happy PFF! And, thanks, Beth, at http://thebestheartsarecrunchy.blogspot.com/ for being our gracious hostess. It is almost my favorite time of year - autumn. There was frost on the roof around here this morning. Time to think about buying some pumpkins and mums! (Click to enlarge)

3 comments:

aimeeSeptember 16, 2011 at 4:55 PM
beautiful card! I'm not much of a roller coaster person either. :) I like the mild kiddie rides the best!
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Sheila @ A Postcard a DaySeptember 16, 2011 at 6:10 PM
I wonder how much the park has changed. I hope it has been preserved. I like the idea of fairground rides but never could cope with them - they always left me feeling queasy.
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viridianSeptember 17, 2011 at 8:26 PM
I do like these old photo postcards.
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Old Pictures of the People in My Life

In this blog, I will post pictures from the past of the many people in my life who I love and have loved. The initial post and any that are labeled Pearce Family refer to my mother's family. Dan and Maggie Pearce had five children, Nelle, Nan, my mother, Harry (Ham), Leah and Ed. They took a lot of pictures and I plan to post many of them. My brother has sent me many pictures over the internet this past week - some of which I haven't seen - and this has prompted me to set up this blog to display those wonderful old photos.

I will also be posting pictures of my family, my husband's family, and our family. Those posts will be labeled by the family's name in the list on the sidebar. I hope this is something that will be enjoyed by anyone who looks in on

my blog.

I will try and tell as much as I can remember about people and places and events and of course much of it will be inaccurate but really just having the great old photographs to look at is fun in itself. And I do know who lots of the folks are.

Enjoy.