davidd's A DOLL A DAY 2023

[davidd]

I'd be up for the Old Pali Road.  If you go with some respect for the ancestors and the 'aina, would they let you be? 

Have you been to the Pali Overlook? You can walk a section of the Old Pali Road from the overlook parking lot. I'm sure that's where the photo was taken.

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22 January - A Doll A Day 2023:

On "trash day," Triv and Janie found an old travel case left out on the curbside, so of course they dragged it home to look it over more closely.

"What's in it? What's inside?"

"Nothing... but a smell."

"An odor?"

"A... stench!"

"I don't know if I'd go that far."

"Take another whiff, then!"

"Wow! Check out the label!"

"Do you think it was really hers?"

No, the "Amelia Earhart" labeled travel case did not actually belong to the famous aviatrix. Earhart licensed her name to a line of luggage beginning in the early 1930s. The brand has passed through a variety of owners over the decades, and still occasionally appears on travel bags. This particular travel case appears to be a style manufactured by the Orenstein Trunk Company of New Jersey, USA, and dates between 1943 and 1950. (Credit to the Henry Ford Museum website for that helpful information.)

Unfortunately, in addition to having a musty, slightly moldy interior and corroded hardware, a hole of about four inches in diameter has been punched through the bottom side of this travel case, tearing through the canvas outer cover and splintering all the way through the plywood core to the inside.