No Gas Postcard and Chabot Redux

Chabot called again last night. I heard 6 people ask questions before I had to hang up. One was about illegal aliens, one was about the wasteful farm bill, and the rest were about high gas prices and the Communists drilling our oil on the outer continental shelf, from Cuba. People are in complete denial about peak oil and ever increasing gas prices, and Chabot is enabling them by saying he can lower them if only they would mail him their gas receipts. He will deliver them to Nancy Pelosi to intimidate her into allowing a vote on more drilling.

Chabot also wanted listeners to key-in their vote on "whether terrorists held in Guantanamo, captured in Afghanistan should be allowed the same right to appeal their detention as a US citizen". He was whipping up the callers, because of course who wants to be soft on a terrorist? The only problem with his line is that many of them are not terrorist!

On a related note, here is an interesting postcard from 1941 about gas shortages:

 

Back of card:

 

Says: Heard you were back in Cincy well I'm up here at Indian Lake. What a place. 15 girls to 1 man. I'm dating a blonde from Georgia. Give Jim my best. -Bob Spoerer

Budapest Postcard 1959

On a more positive note, I found this postcard from Budapest of Móricz Zsigmond Circus in the same store as the Indianapolis postcards.

I scanned this one because it exhibited some good urbanism: Contiguous five-story buildings, shaping a positive outdoor public space, and lots of public transport:

 

At the time of this photo, Hungary was under Soviet control for a decade, but most of what is seen in this photo pre-dated WWII.

Back of card with hand-writing in Magyar language...Notice the stamps feature Communist Modern Buildings:

 

Same place today. And, look here to see the changing streetcars at this traffic circle, from 1900 to today.

Indianapolis Lynching

For Juneteenth, here is a scan of a postcard I recently found of Riverside Park Pavilion in Indianapolis.

Front of Postcard, looks innocent enough:

 

But then you read the back and maybe feel sick to your stomach:

 

Since it was never mailed, there is no postmark, and I am unsure of the date or of the lynching referred to therein.

If you cannot read it, it says:

This is where they lynched a negro the other day. They don't know who done it. I guess they don't care much. I don't, do you?

Update: There are some postcards with this one from Indianapolis. They have the same handwriting and are dated 1911 to 1921. They are adressed to Mrs. George Brown, Cedar Grove, IN, and signed, - your son John