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These postcards from 1900 to 1927 purchased in Paris just before Easter 1982 -- my last vacation as
a single woman -- show us how well time treats the City of Romance.
I went back to Chicago and married a Brit who invested in a transatlantic phone call on Easter
Sunday. Now he could reach me on the internet.
I found postcards for around $3 each (15 francs at that time) in the stalls along the Seine and for a
little less at the famous Paris Flea Market. Go to the Flea Market (Marche aux Puces) on weekends
to get an education about whatever you collect. There I saw a single postcard priced at $250.
That one was of a Fin de Siecle kiosk plastered with theater posters shown in such fine detail
that you could read the names of the cast as well as the titles of the plays. I didn't purchase that one.
My biggest investment was $8 for the postcard of the street life of the Rue Jean-Nicot.
The buildings and the arrondisements have changed very little since the Grand Boulevards were laid
out in the 1870s. The cards that I continue to collect -- you can find them for less in the United
States than they usually cost in France -- are dated by the modes of transportation and the modes of
dress.
These postcards were exchanged by real people whose children and grandchildren could recognize
the names. One of Gertrude Stein's roses protects their anonymity as the messages are shared in both
English and Francais.
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