Description
A vintage postcard shows Main St. South in Decatur, Illinois, featuring brick buildings and a streetcar on a light-colored street. The card’s front depicts a charming streetscape from a bygone era. This postcard, sent around the 1920s, includes a message about Decatur soap and a “torch-tried man.”
Front Text (cleaned):
Main St. South from North St., Decatur, Ill.
1111
Back Text (cleaned):
Dear Bro Gwill,
Send to a ferro
qua
piece of old
Decatur soap.
You can return
it if. I'm wed
to & gas a dollar
torch-tried man.
202-348
promised come more
