Boy, is Toronto ever a size

 

Toronto, Ont. June 5, 1953—

Hi there. We have been having a swell time & the weather has been swell. We were in Casa Loma & will go on a tour in the morning. Stayed at my Aunt’s in Orillia last night & Spanish the night before. Boy is Toronto ever a size. I wouldn’t want to live here. Hope you had a great trip home. 

Love, Dorothy and Vincent.

My intrepid goddaughter Kate made a gift to me of two period postcards. The note on the back of the one from Casa Loma has me wondering who Dorothy and Vincent, writing, in 1953, to a friend or family member in Moosomin, Saskatchewan—a small town 20 kilometres west of the provincial boundary between Saskatchewan and Manitoba—were. Suffice to say that if they found the Toronto of 1953 "a size," it's probably just as well that they're safely in their graves and not forced to visit the the 2024 version of this city (which is still "swell," Dot, just so you know.) I have both cards propped up on my desk, where they set the creative mind to wandering. Save a copy of your letters and postcards, just in case a writer finds them, 71 years later, and posts about you on social media—the true test of immortality.

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