Postmarked 2 March 1930
Skowhegan, ME
Message:
Dear Lottie it's 40C and I am alone having an Ice Cream In Peter Leakos, Skowhegan Maine this state wish you were here I'd treat Ha HaI wonder if it is the cat or the fish wishing for the weekend, or maybe the image and sentiment are totally unrelated! Isn't the back of the postcard lovely? I wish modern postcards were so decorated.
If the sender is correct and the temperature was 40C, she needed ice cream - that's 104 degrees fahrenheit. The only information I can find on Peter Leakos comes from the Maine Historical Society, which indicates that in the late 1920s, he ran a shoe shine parlor. Maybe by 1930, he had changed businesses or maybe it served ice cream, too. Or maybe Peter Leakos just is a place marker.
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Peter Leakos had an ice cream and candy parlor/ shoe shine/ hat cleaning shop in one of the busiest corners in Skowhegan in the early 1900's. It was called Paradise Sweets.
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