These postcards were discovered last year in the Sierra Madre, California home of Warren Brown after his death. They were saved by his maternal grandparents, Edith Amy Duffield (1864-1926) and Charles Herman Sisson (1868-1927), and passed down to Warren, my husband’s cousin. Charles and Edith were married in Ottawa, Illinois in 1895 and remained there until the early 1920s when they moved west to Los Angeles, California.
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| North on Indiana Avenue, La Porte, Ind. |
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| Postmarked in La Porte, Ind. on July 19, 1910. |
Addressed to:
Mrs Charles Sisson
Ottawa
Illinois
408 Marcy St.
Message:
Dear Ede -
Will send some cards to
the girls sometime to-day.
We got here at 5 oclock
yesterday and we only started at
6-15 yesterday morning. Its 140
miles. We are going to Michigan
City to-morrow. This is a
nice place Its a good size
and lots of nice houses.
I am having a good time.
With Love, Eva.
Edith's sister Eva continues on her road trip (see cards 29 and 30) with a stop in La Porte, Indiana. While it's unknown how many stops they made, the 140 mile trip took them just over 13 hours. That equates to less than 11 miles per hour. I don't know how they were traveling, except that it was by road. The red house on the corner featured in this postcard still stands today at the intersection of US-35 (Indiana Ave.) and Osborne Street in La Porte. Since Eva mentioned "lots of nice houses" in her message, I think that's why she chose this card. I looked up and down the street via Google Maps and agree with Eva. There are a lot of large old homes along the street that were surely there over 100 years ago.
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