An historical artifact
A business card from Dad, circa 1960, I’ve been hanging on to since then.
I looked up all those trailer brands. It doesn’t look like any of them have been made since the 60s. Mostly they look like this now:
Or this:
I remember them shiny and fine when they were new on the lot though.
Love the phone number on the card. 5 digits, with a two-letter prefix: GA for Garfield in North Long Beach; our home number in Long Beach having GE for Geneva. Before prefixes; in Seal Beach our number was 98779.
I looked up the trailer lot location on Google Earth.
The trailer lot then is a storage center now.
The link to the google earth view showing Dad’s commute from Long Beach to North Long Beach.
And what the heck, a street view of our house.
Hey look. The Christmas lights I put up are still there!
You can zoom out and see the neighborhood. Carroll Park; a very cool place to grow up.
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