You know, when I was a punk kid I only wanted to go to one place.
Chuck E. Cheese’s. Wow those singing robots were just plain creepy.
But the ball pit! Ok, anyway, the only other place I wanted to go as a child was the zoo. So let’s dedicate this Past Postcard to the Woodland Park Zoo, shall we? This card was sent May 27, 1911 to Millerton, Pa. Considering the stark concrete slab, the caption on the card would no doubt make any modern zookeeper chuckle:
THE NEW ZOO buildings at Woodland Park, in the northern part of the City, afford the animals the greatest degree
of comfort attainable in a life of confinement.
And the inscription:
Monroe Wash
Hello Frank,
How you was
? Suppose you are glad school is out.
HJ
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Front: New Zoo, Woodland Park
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Back: The Pacific Northwest Photographic Series
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“How you was”? Some kind of child-speak in-joke perhaps? Or maybe I just got it totally wrong…
Cliffe
VintageSeattle.org
Hey, Cliffe, what’s going on? Just checking out the archives. How you was?
I was fine.