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<blockquote data-quote="Sandpatch" data-source="post: 655110" data-attributes="member: 10543">Found these Florida East Coast playing cards in my mother's basement over Christmas.&nbsp; I remember seeing them as a kid.&nbsp; I'm uncertain of their age, but views with automobiles look to be from the 1930s.&nbsp; The diesel seen on two of the cards is the FEC's E-3, Henry M. Flagler leading the train of the same name which operated only from 12/1939 to 12/1940.&nbsp; $1.25 seems like an astronomical amount to pay for a deck of souvenir playing cards then or even in the '40s.&nbsp; My grandparents vacationed in Florida in the '50s, so perhaps the same product simply carried on through the decades.
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[QUOTE="Sandpatch, post: 655110, member: 10543"] [LEFT][COLOR=#222222][FONT=Verdana]Found these Florida East Coast playing cards in my mother's basement over Christmas. I remember seeing them as a kid. I'm uncertain of their age, but views with automobiles look to be from the 1930s. The diesel seen on two of the cards is the FEC's E-3, [/FONT][/COLOR][I]Henry M. Flagler [/I][COLOR=#222222][FONT=Verdana]leading the train of the same name which operated only from 12/1939 to 12/1940. $1.25 seems like an astronomical amount to pay for a deck of souvenir playing cards then or even in the '40s. My grandparents vacationed in Florida in the '50s, so perhaps the same product simply carried on through the decades.[/FONT][/COLOR][I][COLOR=#222222][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR][/I][/LEFT] [I][LEFT][COLOR=#222222][FONT=Verdana] [ATTACH=CONFIG]277686._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/FONT][/COLOR][/LEFT] [/I] [/QUOTE]

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