Postcard of the Day

[fflo]

This one reminds me of the business by the main road in my little college town, where they had one gravestone out by the edge of their lot that said (in carving) "Drive With Care---We Can Wait".  I loved that, for multiple reasons.

Sadly the internet suggests that it's not there any more.

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Methinks there was a standard plan for monument shops — we had an identical building catty corner from our garden cemetery that lasted into this millennium before yielding to school expansion.

[fflo]

Ours was apparently a franchisee of Rock of Ages, this branch called Kirby's Memorials, I find from an old Washington Post story. Looked a lot like that pic too!

Whoever named that franchise

[jesse_the_k]

deserves to have a very tall, nay phallic, white marble monument complete with bust and gold lettering.