Thursday, May 22, 2014

O, Du Lieber Augustin

From the steamer trunk.

It was a silly card that Minnie Rossow selected for Herman Harms …

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Images courtesy of E.H.


… but it has inspired me to look into the history of that song, which I've spent most of my life associating with ice-cream trucks.

Though Minnie's been having lots of fun in Gary, she still misses her Ainsworth friend.

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And above her initials she writes "XXX" — had they already got to the kissing?

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