Most samples of hotel letterhead usually come pristine and unused so it was great to see this image of a letter that someone wrote while they were staying at the Garden of Allah in 1939. Seeing this brings a note of reality that showed someone was living their life and was moved to write to some who was obviously going through a rough patch. So they did what we all did before we had smart phone and could send off a text – we grabbed the hotel stationary and wrote a letter. By hand! (And the probably stole the hotel pen afterward.) And something else I didn’t know about the Garden of Allah – their cable address was GARDALLAH.

It’s worth noting that if they ever invented a time machine, I would go to 1939 and check into the Garden of Allah. Who knows, I might even end up staying next to the person who wrote this letter.