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I'm a postcard guy.  Sending postcards to people is something that I find joy in doing when we are traveling.  I send them to my Mom, Nat's Grampy, my friend Matt and others.  They're harder and harder to come by these days as people just don't send postcards like they used to - from travel destinations or ordinary places.   I've been thinking about creating my OWN postcards to send.  I try to send hand-written notes to people from time-to-time, but those are on my own personalized correspondence cards.  A post card, from a place, is different.  I've long wanted to send postcards from Twin Lakes, Wisconsin.  But, alas, they don't exist.  I've also thought about Downers Grove ones.  And, University of Illinois ones.   That lead me to Ebay.  Where, you can find vintage postcards from all of those places:  Twin Lakes, Downers Grove and the University of Illinois.   Fumbling around on Ebay recently, I came ...

I was in the KotBT's room recently and saw that Nat had a stack of vintage felt pennants on his dresser that she was dealing with/sorting in an attempt to put some up on the walls of his room.  They ALL were pretty neat, but there are a couple from the collection that I think are worth documenting on this here blog. The first one is this one you see above - Fighting Illini Football Rose Bowl 1984.  This pennant is one of MINE - from when I was a kid.  I remember it well.  It came - along with a whole host of boxes from my childhood - from my parents when they moved out of my childhood home.  It was one of a few pennants that they (somehow??) saved. This one is of particular interest to me - and I love that it is going in our boy's room.  I had a sister that was a number of years older than me.  And one of my earliest memories is of visiting her down at the Six Pack in Champaign during her freshman year.  I would have been four or five years o...