Miami, Fla, March 18, 1948
Florida sure is a beautiful place. If you ever get a chance to see it don’t miss it. I haven’t had a chance to take many pictures, at a lot of places cameras aren’t allowed.
Minerva
Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Good
West Main St.
New Holland, Pa.
Oh, Minerva. The 1% don’t want your plebian camera taking pictures of their estates. But points for a slogan that the Florida Visitors Bureau would love_ “If you ever get a chance to see it, don’t miss it.”
New Holland, PA is a borough of about 5,000 people founded in 1728 by Germans in what would become Pennsylvania's Amish Country. They have a vibrant historical society, as do most Northeastern towns and boroughs. Thankfully, the name Woodrow Good is an unusual name, and there's a few clues on the internet as to his identity:
From the Internet Archive, a transcribed (no photos) yearbook from William Jennings Bryan College in Dayton, Tennessee shows a member of the 1955 Sophomore Class named Woodrow Good, sponsored by a Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Good. This would suggest that Junior was home when the folks got this card from Minerva.
Three years earlier, the Indiana (PA) Evening Gazette listed at newspaperarchive.com lists a Woodrow Good as a 4-h Club winner in the Livestock Competition at the State Fair. This would seem to solidify the existence of the Good's son.
In 1974, the Reading Eagle (archived at GoogleNewspapers) announces the retirement of a Woodrow Good, who started working at Sperry's New Holland branch as a truck driver in 1941. So now we know where Mr. Good worked. That might be why Minerva is so paranoid about the camera situation.
Lastly, and more mysterious, I keep getting a hit on paid "people search" sites of a 99 year-old Woodrow Good still living in New Holland, PA. If Mr. Good is still living, and if this is the same Mr. Good, he would have been born around 1913, starting his job in his late thirties, and retiring in his early seventies. There's a handful of age-appropriate Woodrow Goods that could be the son, but until the New Holland Historical Society replies, his identity is still just conjecture.
New Holland, PA is a borough of about 5,000 people founded in 1728 by Germans in what would become Pennsylvania's Amish Country. They have a vibrant historical society, as do most Northeastern towns and boroughs. Thankfully, the name Woodrow Good is an unusual name, and there's a few clues on the internet as to his identity:
From the Internet Archive, a transcribed (no photos) yearbook from William Jennings Bryan College in Dayton, Tennessee shows a member of the 1955 Sophomore Class named Woodrow Good, sponsored by a Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Good. This would suggest that Junior was home when the folks got this card from Minerva.
Three years earlier, the Indiana (PA) Evening Gazette listed at newspaperarchive.com lists a Woodrow Good as a 4-h Club winner in the Livestock Competition at the State Fair. This would seem to solidify the existence of the Good's son.
In 1974, the Reading Eagle (archived at GoogleNewspapers) announces the retirement of a Woodrow Good, who started working at Sperry's New Holland branch as a truck driver in 1941. So now we know where Mr. Good worked. That might be why Minerva is so paranoid about the camera situation.
Lastly, and more mysterious, I keep getting a hit on paid "people search" sites of a 99 year-old Woodrow Good still living in New Holland, PA. If Mr. Good is still living, and if this is the same Mr. Good, he would have been born around 1913, starting his job in his late thirties, and retiring in his early seventies. There's a handful of age-appropriate Woodrow Goods that could be the son, but until the New Holland Historical Society replies, his identity is still just conjecture.
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