To Mrs. Hazel Cooper
Date November 4, 1959, this old post card was actually sent to my Grandmother Hazel. It is made from linen, and beautifully colored, capturing the Edison estate in Fort Myers, Florida, whose gardens are truly remarkable. I have been fortunate enough to visit the Edison and Ford Winter Estates, and it is a stop I highly recommend.
http://www.edisonfordwinterestates.org/
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Hello Hazel, I am having the time of my life. The plane trip was wonderful but I sure felt better when my feet touched the ground as ever Bertha.”
The Edison & Ford
Winter Estates
Below, I thought I would share a few contemporary post cards, purchased during our trip to the estates, located in Fort Myers, Florida, to give you a peek inside the homes.
The Edison Living Room
The Edison Swimming Pool, still a vision.
The guest house dining room, featuring a turkey platter, on the left which was a gift to Edison from President Rutherford B. Hayes.
Henry ford and Harvey Firestone funded this lab, which was built in 1928, for Thomas Edison’s to search for a natural source of rubber.
The second floor bedroom where Thomas Edison often slept, when returning home late, from his lab across the street, as to not wake his wife.
“The Executive Ediphone” Edison dictating into his invention.
This insanely wonderfully amazing Banyan Tree, a gift from Harvey Firestone to Thomas Edison, is now over 400 feet wide, making it the second largest Banyan Tree in the world.
Cards published by C. Harrison Convoy Co., Charlotte, NC
