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Photo postcard showing Isaac Newton Seiber of Wolford, North Dakota riding in a wagon pulled by an ostrich at the...


Photo postcard showing Isaac Newton Seiber of Wolford, North Dakota riding in a wagon pulled by an ostrich at the Cawston Ostrich Farm in the Arroyo Seco — South Pasadena, California.
Date 1920. ...Don't you know that, that gettup could book it down the roads ? :-)  Ostridges are fast running birds you know. :-)
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  1. Margaret Siemers (Siemers Rafter Room)March 31, 2014 at 8:35 AM

    You know Matthew, this is very cool. I would also like to say that I appreciate the vintage slang too. I haven't heard the word "book" used as a verb for ages. Do folks still use that term? Perhaps I am the fuddy-duddy here. lol

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  2. Matthew WoodallMarch 31, 2014 at 3:44 PM

    They use it here in the south Margaret among people around 45 to 65 years old. :-)

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  3. Margaret Siemers (Siemers Rafter Room)March 31, 2014 at 4:36 PM

    I thought it was a generational thing. I fit into your demographic, and I lived in the south in the 70's. Louisiana. I was glad to say I made it back North where I belong.

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  4. Matthew WoodallMarch 31, 2014 at 4:44 PM

    I lived in Louisiana in '79 for 6 months with my brother, and I too was happy to get away from there and be back home. One of the biggest things that I did like about it, was the Natchez Trail. It is absolutely beautiful, with big trees with spanish moss on every one of them that runs through the whole state, from north to south, and also some huge plantation homes with lots and lots of land.  :-)

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  5. Margaret Siemers (Siemers Rafter Room)March 31, 2014 at 5:24 PM

    That is pretty, and there are many lovely things in the that state to see, and oodles of things to do there. People are friendly enough...that said; for someone like me that was raised with a large dose of the "and justice for all" ingrained in me I could not take all the "south shall rise again" and the way ethnic folks were treated there. Now much could have changed since I left there, I think it was 76. And I truly do hope they have. I will never forget opening a door and holding it for an elderly black gentleman that was obviously having trouble walking. He stopped and looked me over and said, "Missy, Ya'll can't be from these parts round cheer." "You don't want to hold no dooah for Niggers." I was so shocked I could not answer him.
    Do forgive the use of the "N" word, but this was exactly what he said to me and it does underscore what the feelings were toward African Americans, and the way it had been pounded into this old man's mind over the years.
    Yes, I was so glad to be gone from that state. I can't abide intolerance.

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