"Just a little surprise"

I can make out some of the handwriting on this postcard and if anyone else has insights on what it may say or where it is from would be greatly appreciated!



I think the stamp says is from a photo studio at 1032 Flatbush Ave.

"Dear Bonnie and Frank,

Just a little surprise, this is our baby's picture taken at 8 months old is now 9 and weighs 27 pounds has 8 teeth. Percy and I often speak of you and I [?] by the [??] you were [???] 5th [????] Lots of love from Grace Percy + Robert J. Bacon"

 

I saw by the paper you were playing the 5th Ave. so wanted to send just a few....

 

Fifth Avenue Theatre was a Broadway theatre in New York City in the United States located at 31 West 28th Street and Broadway. It was demolished in 1939.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Avenue_Theatre

 

Thank you! Now I think the sentence reads, "I saw by the paper you were playing the 5th Ave. so wanted to send just a few lines" !

 

Doesn't appear to have been mailed, may have been dropped in a mail box or slipped under a door in person.

 

I wonder if there should be a comma between Grace and Percy? The part of the message that says "Percy and I" makes me think that.

 

Thank you for your help!

What an opening sentence though! "Hello, how are you, by the way I had a baby 9 months ago Bye!" I find it a little comical.

 

I got the same as you, I'll keep looking at it though.

 

Okay - Grace and Percy Bacon were living in Brooklyn on Avenue J in 1920 with their son Robert J Bacon, born 1917.

Percy was born in England, Grace in Connecticut and Robert in New York.

 

Your research skills come through again!

 

Thank you, Fig.

 

I think the studio is called Erasmian Photo Studio. I see a search result in Google for that phrase in the Newspapers.com site (subscription site and I don't have a subscription).

About the postcard not having been mailed... I have read in a history of real photo postcards that sometimes they were put into envelopes and mailed that way, so there was never a stamp on the postcard itself.

 

Wow! Thank you all so much for your research!

 

Thought never occurred to me - I'll file that nugget in my cluttered mind - and promptly forget it the next time I need it....................

 

The senders must have been RICH - if they mailed the postcard in an envelope it cost $0.03! The card itself would have cost $0.01.............

 

I have an RPPC of my grandfather in France during WWI. The message on the back was to his grandfather, but it had to have been in an envelope with other cards or letters because there is no stamp or postmark.

 

I wonder if that photo was trotted out to his girlfriends in later years lol.

 

I'm more interested in Bonnie & Frank who were playing on 5th Avenue! When would little Bobby have been 9 mos old?

 

Just rechecked the details on the 1920 Census for the Bacon family. Bobby was 3 yrs 1 mo old when the Census was done on Jan 2, 1920 (at least that's the date written on the top of that page by the enumerator.) So that would mean he was born in late November, early December 1916. 9 months old would fall in August/September 1917.

 

I tried googling Bonnie & Frank and got a pair of rodeo performers. Right decade, but wrong part of the country! Unless they had a show on Broadway for a bit.