Comments on Vintage Postcard Gallery: Limuru Native Market - 1950s

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2010-03-16T14:52:32.315+01:00

I have given you a sunshine award and linked to your blog in my latest post.

I love picture postcards, they are time captured a...

2010-03-14T02:05:39.159+01:00

I love picture postcards, they are time captured and tell a littel bit of history! thanks for sharing. Happy PFF

My grandmother was an artist and used to clean out...

2010-03-13T05:24:46.455+01:00

My grandmother was an artist and used to clean out and dry gourds then would paint the nicest florals on the outside. They were awesome.

Interesting postcard you have here.

God Bless,
julie

I would love one of these to paint on. Wouldn't th...

2010-03-12T22:09:42.029+01:00

I would love one of these to paint on. Wouldn't that be great. Thanks for your wonderful post. happy PFF

great postcard and interesting facts. I too love ...

2010-03-12T22:01:31.782+01:00

great postcard and interesting facts.

I too love the shape of gourds...and grew some in our back yard in Kentucky...The covering vines I had trailing upward were beautiful coverings, the perfect place to sit when our son was younger. He and our dog would sit under there.

Blessings & Aloha!

I didn't know anything about gourds until I read a...

2010-03-12T21:00:41.121+01:00

I didn't know anything about gourds until I read all of this. I will be the envy of everyone at my gym when I show up with my gourd water bottle and they're all sipping out of metal and plastic ones. Oh yeah!

wow! thank you all for your comments...who knew th...

2010-03-06T09:54:08.914+01:00

wow! thank you all for your comments...who knew there would be so many experts on gourds out there!

I had a large gourd that was ringed with beads and...

2010-03-06T03:20:56.299+01:00

I had a large gourd that was ringed with beads and used as a shekere. It was handmade for me more than 20 years ago when I took shekere lessons in NYC.

My friend grows a smaller version of these, then m...

2010-03-05T22:13:52.154+01:00

My friend grows a smaller version of these, then makes bird houses for Christmas. They're pretty cool!

What a neat photo! I have done some carving with ...

2010-03-05T21:04:15.385+01:00

What a neat photo! I have done some carving with gourds myself. It's a lot of fun! I may have some small insight into the problem of watertightness. As I understand it, it actually wasn't a problem at all, but an asset. The small amount of water that would condense on the outside of the gourd actually cooled the water left inside through evaporation. Who needs fridges anyway!

In fact I wish there were more cards like this, pi...

2010-03-05T20:50:17.412+01:00

In fact I wish there were more cards like this, pieces of social history. It's something to treasure.

Calabash is a great word, isnt it? Very informati...

2010-03-05T20:00:43.985+01:00

Calabash is a great word, isnt it? Very informative post!

Wow, that is so neat. I really liked the African ...

2010-03-05T18:26:53.685+01:00

Wow, that is so neat. I really liked the African gourds. It would be so great if we could grow 'em here...

I love this postcard! Thank you for the history behind it!

Happy PFF!

So much fascinating info and wonderful images! Ha...

2010-03-05T13:50:25.472+01:00

So much fascinating info and wonderful images!

Happy PFF!

LOLA:)

That's very interesting. I didn't know what a cala...

2010-03-05T13:41:27.192+01:00

That's very interesting. I didn't know what a calabash was. I wonder how they make the gourds watertight.