“Hitch Hike trip from Trumbull to New York City – Ossining — Cleveland — Chicago — west to St. Paul
Left Sunday July 15th – returned Thursday Sept. 6 arrived back at Trumbull
This is the next section of postcards from the Chicago World’s Fair along with comments made by Ced on some of them.
“Walked along this aisle”
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“Saw Chev. assembly line”
“I rode on this anbd also went up on the tower on the island
saw elevators work
65 cents and worth it
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Next Sunday I’ll post the rest of these postcard souvenir booklet. The following Sunday, I’ll start posting “What I saw at the Chicago World’s Fair – 1934, filled with Ced’s notes and impressions on the exhibits.
Tomorrow I’ll start a week of letters written in February of 1941, when Lad is getting ready to come home after working in Venezuela for two and a half years and his younger brother is getting ready to drive a car across the country and deliver it to his older brothers in Alaska. Dan and Ced have been living and working there for almost a year.
If you know of anyone who might have been living in the 1940’s or is interested in American family life during an earlier time, pass along this blog site. They would be amazed at the memories these stories will bring back.
Judy Guion
"Greatest Generation" Life Lessons 
Love these cards.
Hilary – I’ll be posting the last batch next Sunday. They are quite fantastic, aren’t they? And to think, none of the buildings are left standing. They were constructed cheaply and not meant to last. Such a shame.
Ced’s adventure stirs my curiosity about the ’34 World’s Fair. There are a few buildings in St. Louis left from the 1904 World’s Fair. I wonder what, if any, buildings still stand, and are in use from the ’34 Chicago fair?
Adam – According to this site http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/225.html there are no buildings left from the 1933-34 Chicago World’s Fair although Chicago shared in some of the benefits.
Wiki has a very historical article about Fort Dearborn. Great photos.
GP – Thanks. I went searching and came up with this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Dearborn
A sentence from the site states:
Also in 1933, at the Century of Progress Exhibition, a detailed replica of Fort Dearborn was erected as a fair exhibit
Good to remember how important postcards were before we all had ready access to cameras.
Gallivanta – Ced sent or came home with quite a few. The ones I’ve been posting are in a Souvenir packet sent to the Guion Family on July 30, 1934. The cover is at the beginning of Ced’s Coming of Age Adventure – The 1934 Chicago World’s Fair (5-a)