Michael Popek's Blog, page 237

Not Forgotten: Part II

A few days back, I posted a collection of some of my less-interesting finds. Consider this part two of an ongoing series.






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Busy Day

A rather confusing and incomplete recipe for "Busy Day Cake" -

Sift 3 cups Swans Down cake flour, 4 teaspoons Calumet baking powder, 1/4 t. salt, 2 cups sugar three times.

10 t. melted butter a little cool
4 eggs fill cup with milk then add 1 cup more milk
1 t. vanilla

Put all together abd beat three minutes, bake in 3 layers 25 minutes

Found in "Better Homes and Gardens Encyclopedia of Cooking, Volume 10" published by BHaG, 1973.


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Books on Books winner

This week's giveaway winner was Stephanie Jobe, who entered right here.

Stephanie, send me an email so I know where to send your books:

fb@forgottenbookmarks.com

Friday Giveaway: Books on Books (contest closed)

Giving away these fifteen books.

-Contest closed, winner announced shortly.

Friday Giveaway: Books on Books

Giving away these fifteen books.

To enter, leave a comment here on the site or over on Facebook or Twitter .

If you're having trouble, you can always just send me an email .

I'll gather up the entries and select a winner at random tomorrow morning (Saturday) at 11:00 AM EST.

Good luck!

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Brotherly Love

Absolutely terrific photo of old (well, not THAT old) Philadelphia, with the Benjamin Franklin Bridge looming in the distance.

I spent a happy hour trying to find this spot on Google Maps so I could see what it looks like today. I'm not satisfied I found the exact street, but I believe it's Race Street or North Front Street or maybe even Quarry Street. It doesn't look like those old buildings are there. Here's as close as I got:



Found in "The Plot Genie Index" by Wycliffe A. Hill. Published by Ernest E. Gagnon, 1934.

If you'd like a bigger and cleaner version of the photograph, here it is .

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Grand Master

One ticket for the September 28th, 1985 performance of Abbey Simon at Hartwick College.

Found in "Babylon Revisted and Other Stories" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published by Scribners, 1971.

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Death In The Afternoon

Postcard, date unknown:

Hi!

This is my second day in Mexico City. It's really a beautiful place, quite modern. On Sunday we're off to the bull fights. It ought to be fun.

See you in 6 weeks.

Susan

Found in "Death in the Afternoon" by Ernest Hemingway. Published by Scribners, 1954.

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Alice

Today's bookmark has surpassed this post as my favorite found letter:


Letter, dated January 8, 1952:

happynewyear:

I'm sorry we managed to elude each other so successfully during the recent brief holiday, but life was excessively traumatic.

Permit me to announce, at this time, the termination of the Romance of the Century... (not to be confused with the Greatest Fights of the Century, which is a television show on boxing)... which after an eventful three years and half, etc., etc.,

I am working. This time for the University. I am the receptionist at the Reading Institute for Children Who don't Know the Alphabet (in sanscrit) and retarded Adults. It is very dull here except when the children do some perverted thing like stop up the toilet, or walk through windows. Then it gets very interesting. The woman I work for is a bitch, and she hates me, but then so does everybody else. Every day, all over the world, mankind observes, religiously, fifteen minutes of hate Alice.

I saw George Broadfield for the first time in about two years the other night, and he bored the hell out of me for half an hour. What is left in life for me now, if even Broadfield is boring. He has, by the way, the East via, I suspect, a Tibetan fairy or something related. Anyway, he has decided that he is a Negro, and that he's going to South Africa like Augustine or somebody.

I have been having fierce pains in the stomach for about two weeks. It's probably psychosomatic, but I prefer to think that my brother has been feeding me large doses of ground glass in my rice crispies.

I once wrote you a  letter when you first wrote to Dave Green but I think I lost it. Or maybe I handed it to Wm. Riley Parker instead of a Milton paper. I haven't been to that class since that day, anyhow.

I still do not have a thesis, or even an idea, and I don't expect to have one.

What is Chicago. Do you the like U. Are you going to the U. I met somebody who knows you whose name is Pearl Weis-something. I don't think she likes you. She is divorcing her husband.

I had a nice christmas. I got presents and I got drunk. Write to me unless you're too busy or something.

alice

Found in "Collected Poems: 1909-1935" by T.S. Eliot. Published by Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1936.


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Giveaway winner

Giveaway winner was Deiann Elliott, who entered on Facebook.

See you all next week.