Always, Eddie Haskell

1952 yearbook inscription from Vista High School, Vista, California.

Dear Barbara,
It is not easy to put down on paper all the fun that we have had during these last five months. I have never been with a person who is near as sweet and fine as you. You have been to me, all that I ever wanted or hoped for in a girl. It has been a truly great pleasure to have been able to go with you. You are as sweet and have all of the qualifications as nearly perfect that anyone could have. Most of this is due to the fine upbringing of your wonderful parents but the rest is brought on by your charming personality and physical attractiveness. I feel that I can safely predict for you a great future in whatever you do for with your qualities anyone could become the best in whatever field they undertake. Take care of yourself and always remain the same honesty, sincere, and charming person you are.
Always, Eddie

Jimmy and Angie, sitting in a tree...

A hard day’s night

A poignant notation by a teenage girl in the 1964 paperback, "The Beatles in A Hard Day's Night":

The day Grandpaw died from a heart attack 1.30 September 8, 1979 Saturday.

Her name is blurred out for privacy's sake.

To Do List

Entry from a young woman's journal found at a thrift store.

Buff Rust out of Truck
Repaint Desk
Clean small fish tank
Buy new car
Look @ old Dodge Charger
Get Lesbian Hair Cut
Buy a pair of Birkenstocks
Beef up feet
Get Pregnant
Steal a Baby

Call your wife

Found on the sidewalk in Lake Forest Park, WA.

And the picture story books

This lovely 1908 first printing copy of "The Good Wolf" by Frances Hodgson Burnett includes a charming Christmas gift inscription taken from the Robert Louis Stevenson poem, "Picture Books in Winter".

Summer fading, winter comes -
Frosty mornings, tingling thumbs.
Window robins, winter rooks,
And the picture story books.

The Latest Song and Trot Craze!

V. Colony wrote his or her name at the top of this antique Hawaiian-themed sheet music from 1917.