Aunt Minnie provides a history lesson
After posting the “Aunt Minnie” item last week, I started wondering about Auntie’s origins. The web makes it easy to look for obscure things like that, although actually finding them may be a different story. Aunt Minnie shows up in Victorian era stories, and popular plays from the 1920’s and ’30’s, but the oldest specifically postal mention I found was from 1949- a story in the New York Times describing a railroad car fire that had destroyed a large amount of mail. The story noted that “Postal Inspectors are salvaging what they can and passing it along to the addressees. But there are some persons who will never get the letter that Aunt Minnie mailed last week in Long Beach…”
The most interesting story, though, was from 1970, (more…)
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