The Nankin Township Historical Society

Here's a 1959 postcard of Satellite Lanes in Inkster. It was located at Michigan and Gulley. It had a space age look and apparently a coffee shoppe where the author of this card, Maggie, had breakfast on August 28th before sending this card to her parents Mr/ & Mrs. Harry M. Frost? in Akron, Ohio.

A 1910 Christmas card from Eloise to Miss Katherine Sundberg of the J. Solvay Process Company of Detroit from some name starting with an E that I can't decipher. It appears to be Eucena or something close to that but also might just be Emma written rather sloppily.

Merry Christmas Elva Brockmiller of Dearborn from Elsie of Inkster, Michigan.

Sometimes these posts write themselves. Unlike The Detroit News new carrier card , that I found last time at John King Books and returned to the owner, Fayetta Crowley Thurber won't be receiving this 1916 return notice for the Aivanti Chartres book Marie Tarnowska from the lending library at Dennen's Book Shop which she took to Gratiot Beach in Port Huron for the summer. The store was located at 19 East Grand River at the foot of Woodward and was a new and rare bookstore. Detroit Free Press , December 9, 1917 The store also sold stationary and party decorations and did engravings along with the circulating library. Detroit Free Press , May 1, 1917 Fayetta Crowley married Donald Thurber, son of the private secretary to President Grover Cleveland, and was well-connected socially being a friend of opera singer Enrico Caruso. Detroit Free Press , April 30, 1911 While the card spells it out the ne wspaper traces her stay with the Lafayette Crowley family (her parents) in Port H...

I've never seen this postcard from J. L. Hudson's before so when I saw 7 or 8 of them at the estate sale the other day I grabbed them all. After coming to my senses I put back half and settled on 4. Let somebody else have a few. I'll sell at least two of them and make back most of the $17 I spent at the sale. Not to mention that the money used came from a few textbooks that I sold so it was all free to begin with. That's always been my modus operendi concerning antiques or else I couldn't justify spending the money on stuff that I don't really NEED no matter how amazing it is. The card speaks for itself. I want to say that it's from the early 1900s but that's a complete stab in the dark. It's almost definitely not later than the 1920s.

I've thrown off my spendthrift shackles lately and spent more than I should have on this novelty postcard emblazoned with an ELOISE postmark from 1907 but it'll last longer than a 6 pack of pumpkin ale. It's from a girl named Helena to her friend Grace Knoepfler of Milford, Michigan telling her to meet her in Detroit the week after the Milford Fair. Which seems like a pretty vague meet-up time and place but what do I know?

I bought this 1909 postcard today from a Nellie to Mrs. G. W. Moore of Romulus. Who, I am guessing, is a daughter-in-law of George Washington Moore of Romulus or a relative since the family was prominent in the area. I assumed that it was Mrs. George William Moore but his wife's name was Katherine (De Mill) and it couldn't have been George Washington Moore's wife, who was named Mary, since she was deceased by 1909. G. W. Moore, the elder was a farmer and also a keeper of the Wayne County House from 1853-1855. The other names mentioned are Carrie, Mrs. J. Moore and Mrs. Johnson along with the writer of the card Nellie. There is a Nellie Moore buried in the Romulus Cemetery where the two G. W. Moores mentioned above are also buried. There were two siblings of George William Moore with the initial J., Jasper and James, who may or may not be related to this Mary Moore of Romulus. No matter to the who she is let her and the card be entered into the record. Detroit Free Press ...

A postcard of the Nankin Hospital. A structure that I know very little about.