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« Reply #1005 on: April 02, 2019, 10:32:03 AM »
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I got outbid on these three postcards during last weeks' postcard auction.

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« Reply #1007 on: April 02, 2019, 11:35:43 PM »
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July 6, - 58) Sunday)
Mrs. Eunice Servell
Box 287
Joshua Tree, Calif.

Miss Servell, - would certainly appreciate it if you could water grape vines this week!  We did not get to place - too much work here at home.  Disiseiola's (?) (Italian who sold us Desert house) wanted to rent it for a week - and offered 5oo for a bunch of them.  We said no!  Thank you Beeler (or Bealen, or perhaps a poorly written Best, as in Best Regards?), Maria.

(As an aside, Jennifer Saunders, of Absolutely Fabulous fame, was born on July 6, 1958.)

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« Reply #1010 on: April 03, 2019, 11:48:52 AM »
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Apparently they discovered that the paint colors used on the walls during his time were not as drab as we thought and he like bright and unique colors.

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/02/11/garden/renovation-brightens-mt-vernon.html

https://www.mountvernon.org/preservation/architecture/paint-analysis/

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« Reply #1011 on: April 03, 2019, 12:14:57 PM »
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Apparently they discovered that the paint colors used on the walls during his time were not as drab as we thought and he like bright and unique colors.

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/02/11/garden/renovation-brightens-mt-vernon.html

https://www.mountvernon.org/preservation/architecture/paint-analysis/

Interesting how modern designers mistook the darker colors that were a result of the aging process and not the brighter colors that were wanted there in the beginning.  I couldn't get the Mount Vernon link to load. (Are they doing some painting there? ha.)  I read an article in a Farmer's Almanac many years ago, about what it was like to dine with George Washington.  One dinner guest wrote about a visit there.  Apparently, George was sitting at the head of the table and, while waiting for the food to arrive, he grabbed a spoon and rhythmically pounded out a drum session of sorts, banging it on the table and every once in awhile, the palm of his hand.  Like something you would see on Hee Haw, I guess.  He also cracked some walnuts open.  I can't imagine how he could chew walnuts with those horrible dentures.   https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/george-washington-didnt-have-wooden-teeth-they-were-ivory-180953273/

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« Reply #1012 on: April 03, 2019, 08:43:39 PM »
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« Reply #1013 on: April 03, 2019, 09:11:33 PM »
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Interesting how modern designers mistook the darker colors that were a result of the aging process and not the brighter colors that were wanted there in the beginning.  I couldn't get the Mount Vernon link to load. (Are they doing some painting there? ha.)  I read an article in a Farmer's Almanac many years ago, about what it was like to dine with George Washington.  One dinner guest wrote about a visit there.  Apparently, George was sitting at the head of the table and, while waiting for the food to arrive, he grabbed a spoon and rhythmically pounded out a drum session of sorts, banging it on the table and every once in awhile, the palm of his hand.  Like something you would see on Hee Haw, I guess.  He also cracked some walnuts open.  I can't imagine how he could chew walnuts with those horrible dentures.   https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/george-washington-didnt-have-wooden-teeth-they-were-ivory-180953273/

Probably one of those "government shutdowns" and the folks involved forget to click back on the site? Jefferson's place is epic. A lot of those old places are great. I particularly like the idea (and MAKES SENSE) of having kitchens separate from the house (less fires, less heat,) design of corridors and rooms to allow breeze (no HVAC back then,) and dumb-waiters and back-stairs etc (who wants to see "staff" except at minimum or for assignations or a dressing-down/firings and, even then, let the managers deal with the latter.)

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« Reply #1014 on: April 04, 2019, 02:30:37 PM »
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...home to actress Helen Hayes...

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Dear Helen -
Hope you are feeling better by this time.  Met Robert here this PM.  Had dinner in this old Southern Tea Room - our table marked X
Love, Dad

History of the Old Southern Tea Room: https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/old-southern-tea-room/

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