Wonders and roads

Front: Moonlight at Hallenbeck Park, Los Angeles, Cal.

arrived saf in Los Angeles just been to see Henry he is looking fine better than I am saw ___(??) Bernard too should join him ___(??)

Addressed to:
Mrs W H Metz
940 3rd Ave (?)
Nashville, Tennessee

Postmark: LOS ANGELES, CA JULY 15 230 PM 1912
WORLD'S PANAMA-PACIFIC EXPOSITION IN SAN FRANCISCO 1915

Postcard description: Los Angeles, Cal. "On the Road of a thousand wonders"

The thing that caught my attention on this one was the stamp about the Panama-Pacific world's fair. According to Wikipedia this exposition was held to showcase both the completion of the Panama Canal (also referenced in this postcard) and the recovery of San Francisco from the 1906 earthquake.

It's nice of someone in LA to advertise for that, even though the postcard is from three years earlier. But also with travel, I bet folks had to prepare more in advance to go from (in this example), Nashville to LA.

Over New Years, I took Amtrak from Chicago to LA. The trip took me two days on the train (and I do plan on writing more about that because it was an interesting trip). The world's fair showcased the purchase of the C. P. Huntington steam train, which had been designed and made in the 1860s, so it was vintage even then.

This train is very very very different from the Amtrak Southwest Chief I took over a hundred years later. Still cool though.

I have gotten distracted by trains. This is not unusual.

I hope Henry was still doing well by the world's fair and everyone had a lovely visit in 1912.