A Beautiful Park in Florida
Delray Beach, Fla
February 27, 1954
We are having a nice vacation and we both have been feeling very well. We’ll have to be on our way home soon. Have been away since the 23rd of January. Plan on being home by April 1st. Hope you have been very well since we seen you last.
Love,
Harry and Agnes
Mrs. Marie B. Sinclair
106 11th Street
Garden City- L.I.
NY
Looks like Harry and Agnes have over a month left in Florida, unless this is the continuing groundwork for the most patient April Fool's prank ever!
Garden City was founded in 1869 by Alexander Turney Stewart, a merchant millionaire. The city flourished in the early 20th century, and now boasts a population of over 21,000. Marie B. Sinclair does not turn up in a basic search of public records, nor does her original house. The current structure was built in 2004 and is valued at $1.6 million. Judging from the neighborhood, Marie must have been doing very well for herself. Strangely enough, a September 11, 2011 bulletin from the St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Garden City lists a Harry and Agnes Young under a schedule of Mass Intentions.
Harry and Agnes traveled over 200 miles from buying to sending this postcard. Keep in mind, the postmark predates the construction of the Florida Turnpike by just 3 years. (Whether our travelers had to fend off "kill the Pike" demonstrators, we'll never know.) That would make the journey to Delray Beach and arduous and lengthy process by today's standards. Maybe Harry and Agnes were secret civil rights organizers going to meet with Solomon D. Spady.
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